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Louis Roney: The years stack up

Many well wishes arrived on my 91st. I try not to seem old despite the astronomical number.

Many well wishes arrived on my 91st.

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Review: Manhattan Brass at Rollins

Quintet is plenty brassy

The Manhattan Brass quintet offered a modicum of non-jarring melodic music perhaps to repay those who politely endured as much noise as five healthy brassists can manage.

Play On!: Louis Roney

Rollins College and its colorful President Hamilton Holt were an unusual local phenomenon.

Remembrance of a town past

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Before many more Obama days, our armed forces may be relatively what they were before World War II.

Semper Paratus?

2012 takes the stage

People who think that an attractive woman can steal a man from his wife are kidding themselves.

People who think that an attractive woman can steal a man from his wife are kidding themselves.

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I'm being inducted by the governor into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame on March 21 in Tallahassee.

Hark the herald future sings

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New word: Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing.

Departures and arrivals

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Christmases came. Christmases went. Mr. Natale’s mouth never sang any more songs.

Mr. Natale’s Christmas (Fiction)

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What would the world be if the U.S. were a ferociously aggressive dictatorship instead of the most benign great nation in the history of this Earth?

The fear that pacifies

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I think I’ve got “age-activated attention deficit disorder,” but I’m not sure.

AAADD

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Obama is poised in a position to continue to do us all great harm.

Headed for trouble

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Above all, I am grateful for my wife who sees mostly the good in me but who pulls no punches when she thinks I am out of line.

Thanks

Stoltzman serves up the contemporary

Richard Stoltzman gave a lesson in what can be done with a clarinet if you love it and spend your life exploring its potential.

Richard Stoltzman gave a lesson in what can be done with a clarinet if you love it and spend your life exploring its potential.

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In many ways, Roger Nofsinger will be missed and hard to replace in all of them.

Playing the game

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The beauty produced by singing is its art, and its art is the realization of that beauty.

Singing and other aberrations

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