by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 25, 2026 | Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 350 words. Van Halen’s strangest safety check came in a bowl of candy. Their concert rider demanded M&M’s backstage. But every brown one had to be removed. It sounded like rock-star vanity. It was quality control. Their shows...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 18, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 321 words. Before Yelp, one unhappy customer sent his complaint on a clay tablet. Around 1750 BCE, Nanni accused a copper merchant named Ea-nasir of delivering the wrong grade of copper and treating his messenger with contempt. It survives as the...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 11, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 380 words. During a concert, Herbie Hancock played the wrong chord behind Miles Davis. Not slightly wrong. “Completely, entirely wrong.” Hancock covered his ears in embarrassment. Miles took a breath. Then he played a phrase that made...
by Kabir Sehgal | Oct 4, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 285 words. At seven years old, Yo-Yo Ma performed for Pablo Casals, one of history’s greatest cellists. Ma was already a prodigy. His days revolved around lessons, rehearsals, and practice. Casals listened carefully. Then he offered...
by Kabir Sehgal | Sep 27, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 301 words. The best genres shouldn’t quite make sense. A few years ago, I visited Mehmet Ali Sanlฤฑkolโs basement studio outside Boston. Charlie Parker on one wall. Turkish masters on another. Handmade instruments everywhere. This is where...
by Kabir Sehgal | Sep 20, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 359 words. There’s a musical illusion that makes it sound like a note is rising forever. Itโs called a Shepard tone. It works by layering the same pitch pattern across several octaves. โAs the higher tones fade out, lower ones quietly fade...
by Kabir Sehgal | Sep 13, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 375 words. Creative work rarely starts full-time. It starts in the margins. Anthony Trollope was a Post Office civil servant who rose early to write before work, measuring his output in 15-minute blocks. Walker Evans took night jobs so he could...
by Kabir Sehgal | Sep 6, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 353 words. Years ago, I spent months talking with a composer about scoring a video game. When the client finally gave the green light, he emailed to say he could no longer do it. On another project, after months of similar conversations, a...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 30, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 338 words. One of the most important pieces in music history was booed so loudly the dancers couldn’t hear the orchestra. At the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinskyโs The Rite of Spring, people shouted, fought and caused enough chaos that the...
by Kabir Sehgal | Aug 23, 2026 | All, Seven Point Sunday
Read time: 1 minute, 330 words. Philip Larkin didn’t quit his librarian day job to become a great poet. He kept it for 30 years. Elizabeth Bishop never built her life around one prestigious institution. She moved between grants, teaching, fellowships and...
