Evert's World of Music

So here I am in Sarajevo, again. It has been quite some time - three years, to be precise. I wondered if again it would snow and I would sp...

When I was about fourteen, I stopped taking violin lessons and switched to the guitar. At that time, I think there was no choice between cla...

I would like to share here some of the final words of the anthropological classic "We, the Tikopia" by Raymond Firth, because, mor...

The Reverend Gilbert White (about whom I wrote before ) explains in Letter XLVI to the honourable Daines Barrington (not dated, but written...

Happy new year. I have taken a sort of semi-sabbatical those past few months, I now realize. I wrote less regularly than I used to do, I s...

I am singing in a shanty choir these days. When talking with some of the members, they assure me that shanty is not too popular in the Nethe...

The football match of my oldest daughter (6) is canceled, so early in the morning I am sitting at the table, writing this blog, while my old...