Richard and Eric take a brief look back at their year and find its a little harder to do than it would seem.  What can be learned from the many surprises and disappointments the season or school year annually present?  The guys also answer a listener email and reference the inimitable Gordan MacRae.

'musica obscura' looks at Communist composer Hanns Eisler's (1898-1962)  “Woodbury Songbook” (1941). 

'Readings and Writings' is a short acrostic obituary poem published at the death of composer George Friederic Handel (1685-1759).