As I wrote the final column of 2022, I created three words that may have baffled you. I took three muses closely associated with music and created adjectives of their names. Euterpe, Terpsichore and ...

First, there was an odd film in 1947 called “Down to Earth,” watchable only for the divine Rita Hayworth as the Greek muse Terpsichore who falls in love with a mortal while helping him put on a show.

Crowns, tiaras or a creative headdress -- if you weren't wearing one, then you weren't ready to revel with the Revelers of Terpsichore, a society for arts and cultural enthusiasts. (Terpsichore is the ...