Last music post for a little while since I’m traveling for the next couple of weeks. Jacob Collier (playing his 5-string guitar) and a volunteer choir sing his “Little Blue” www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQvz...

A stunning rendition of Sinéad O'Connor’s delicate and touching "This Is To Mother You" performed by Austin-based Conspirare www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6D...

The incredible Yuja Wang on piano performs Nikolai Kapustin’s “Toccatina” from his 8 Concert Etudes Op. 40 in 2022 www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3mV...

Appropriately critical commentary on cochrane reviews as the apply to matched targeted therapy by @viveksubbiah.bsky.social Journal of Clinical Oncology ascopubs.org/doi/full/10....

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

A choral version of Laura Mvula's "Sing To The Moon" performed by the Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, conducted by Anna Lapwood before she was a social media and organ music superstar www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRSJ...

Big news indeed: Last week the FDA approved SQ pembro for all solid tumor indications in adults and kids 12+ for which IV pembro was approved. Will be interesting to see the financial analysis of the impact on total cost of care www.fda.gov/drugs/resour...

How does she hit those high notes? Broadway star Lindsay Mendez sings cabaret fav “Meadowlark” at 54 Below, a cool nightspot in NYC I’ve been to a couple of times www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHAP...

"Vuelie” by the Norwegian vocal ensemble Cantus, musical themes that inspired Disney’s Frozen www.youtube.com/watch?v=schn...

I recently discovered this contemporary Italian composer of sacred choral music, Claudio Dall'Albero from Rome, who writes beautiful contrapuntal textures with modern touches. Here is the Choir of Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge singing his “Pater Noster” www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkUu...

The Cape Town Youth Choir performs “Iza Ngomso (Come Tomorrow)” at their Dec 2020 virtual graduation ceremony. From composer Christopher Tin’s song cycle The Drop That Contained the Sea. Text from the HW Longfellow poem “Keramos” translated into Xhosa www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaVt...

David Lang’s very cool but challenging (rhythmically and otherwise) piece “Increase” (2002), performed by Orkest De Ereprijs, a small contemporary ensemble from the Netherlands specializing in new music www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wZA...

Withdrawing from the War on Cancer: an extraordinarily successful scientific research system that took decades to build, saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits is being dismantled in short order. @jonathanmahler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Everyone, and I mean everyone, should read about what is happening to the cancer research infrastructure in the US—->Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

From JCO OP: OK Computer! Reflections on How Artificial Intelligence Saved Cancer Care ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.... <---heh, let's hope

Dougie MacLean and a backing chorus of Scottish (and American) superstars perform his classic “Caledonia” live in 1989 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9IY...

The Pembroke College Chapel Choir, conducted by Anna Lapwood, perform her arrangement of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEYN...

This really excellent youth choir from Germany Jugendkonzertchor der Chorakademie Dortmund perform Stephen Paulus’ “The Road Home” www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjTT...

Now that I’m retired, I have time to find and share important news like this 🍪🍪🍪

English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ arrangement of “All Creatures of our God and King ('Lasst Uns Erfreuen’)” sung by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge in 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbF...

A Massive Vaccine Experiment (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

One of my favorite reads every year

From 2019: Jon Batiste performs “What A Wonderful World” from the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral. I don’t know what the backstory is for the video of the 4 nuns driving around London, but it’s a treat youtu.be/9542BuRJq6k?...

From 1988, the late, great pianist Andre Watts performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rW6...

Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks’ “The Fruit of Silence” performed by the Mixed Choir of Riga Cathedral Choir School (cond. Jurģis Cābuliswith), with a very nice piano accompaniment played by Ilze Kalniņa (normally performed with strings). Text from Mother Teresa www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGM6...

Members of the Kanneh-Mason family from the UK perform an instrumental version of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Lm...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.

Just listened to the podcast at the gym this morning. It’s brutal and chilling. A must hear

Another work from Ola Gjeilo, commissioned by Singapore’s Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC) Alumni Choir “IAM SOL RECEDIT.” Conducted by Valarie Wilson, w/ Seow Yin (oboe) & the composer (piano). Text from the 4th c. hymn O Lux Beata Trinitas www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Po3...

RFK Jr "the nation’s leading public health official does not have any real interest in — or possibly any real understanding of — public health" @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

The Bel Canto Choir Vilnius perform “Ecce Novum” by Ola Gjeilo from their 2021 album "Open to the World" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEZP...

Two of my favorites, Brad Mehldau on piano and Chris Thile on mandolin and vocals, cover Elliot Smith’s hit from 2000 “Colorbars” www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9P...

One of the best professional choral groups in the US is the Atlanta Master Chorale. Here is “Music, When Soft Voices Die” written by Artistic Director Eric Nelson (based on a text by Percy Bysshe Shelley) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsX...

The VOCES8 Choir & Orchestra (cond. Barnaby Smith) perform Rebecca Dale's “The Cloths of Heaven.” Text is from W.B. Yeats’ 1899 poem “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPhb...

No scientists were let go? BS

From 1998. Seeing him tonight at Wolf Trap. His voice may be even better now at age 77 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfJW...

On what is my last day of work in a 40+-yr oncology career, sharing a heartfelt, gentle gem from my favorite folk singer, Carrie Newcomer. "I Meant To Do My Work Today" from her 2010 album Before & After (don't worry, my music posts to continue post retirement) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQfq...

A captivating live performance of “32 Flavors” by indie/folk singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco from 1997 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVg7...

Missed Opportunities to Prevent Ovarian Cancer During Unrelated Surgeries www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...

Oscar Peterson was amazing www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyu7...

AACR Project GENIE®, a publicly accessible cancer registry of real-world clinico-genomic data, has released its 18th public dataset. The registry now contains more than 250,000 genomic samples from over 211,000 patients. Learn more: buff.ly/Pa8Z2qF #AACRGENIE

An auditorium full of high school kids singing "I Carry Your Heart" conducted by the composer, Connor Koppin. The piece is based on a poem by e e cummings www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Df...

Lovely harmonies in this Fraser Wilson arrangement of the traditional “Scarborough Fair,” performed by the uber-talented British vocal group Apollo5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHlg...

Don't have time for the whole thing? Then just listen to Hilary Hahn play the brutal 3rd movement (28:48) of the Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0w0...

Sergei Rachmaninoff's beautiful Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op. 37: "Bogoroditse Devo [Ave Maria]" sung by Tenebrae Choir (cond. Nigel Short) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi0V...

Former surgeon general: The CDC shooting must be a wakeup call www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c... via @statnews.com

Another performance by San Francisco’s Fog City Singers. “Luceat Eis” by composer Timothy Takach, text from the Latin Requiem Mass and John 15:13. Written in memory of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, on the 10th anniversary www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy82...

SF’s Fog City Singers perform an interesting piece, “Dawn, Unhindered” by composer Eric Tuan, with text from haiku written by Japanese Americans imprisoned in domestic internment camps in WWII www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBed...

You may have heard Mark O'Connor's iconic "Appalachia Waltz" performed by Yo-Yo Ma and others. Here's a lovely fiddle rendition from Mark O'Connor in a duet w/ his wife Maggie O'Connor www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkf5...