Let’s ask Donald Swearingen
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF) kicks off next week, and several of its original founders will be performing in celebration of the festival’s tenth anniversary. One of them,…
Learn to Play ‘Clair du Lune’ from Scratch on YouTube
Can an absolute beginner, someone who has never played the piano before or read a note of music, learn to play Debussy’s masterpiece “Clair de lune” completely from scratch? Our…
September concerts in Berkeley, Santa Fe, New York City and Boston
I won’t be able to make it to most of these events, but hopefully you will. Moving from the west coast to the east coast, here is some of what’s…
My Ears Are Open, Chicago. Part I.
One of the simple rules for the podcast is that there is a new episode every two weeks. That rule was broken in July when all four members of ETHEL…
Let’s ask Jack Curtis Dubowsky
San Francisco-based composer, conductor, writer, educator, and filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky is a very busy man. This Wednesday night, September 9th at 7:30 p.m., he’ll take the stage along with…
Radio Radio: all new, all the time
Well, that is if the time happens to be this Tuesday September 08 from 7:00pm EDT, ’till 7:00pm EDT Wednesday September 09, and you pin your ear to Princeton’s WPRB…
Minimalism Conference, Day 4
Tonight’s performance by Charlemagne Palestine was, in short, one of the most extraordinary musical experiences of my life. Palestine has developed a technique for playing the organ which involves the…
Forget Gonzo Journalism…Philly’s got a Gonzo Cantata!
It’s not often that Sequenza 21 gets scooped by the likes of Rachel Maddow – but that’s a good thing for composer Melissa Dunphy and the group of 30 musicians…
Minimalism Conference, Day 3
This summary has to be a short one, since I need to finish preparing for my paper presentation tomorrow morning, but today was another excellent conference day. During the day,…
Minimalism Conference, Day 2
A day that starts at 9AM and ends after 11 at night, in which 15 different people give presentations, and which culminates in a two hour concert, is not a…