Would You Believe…
A long, long time ago, boys and girls, there was a very funny TV series called Get Smart, starring a Borscht Belt comic named Don Adams as a brain-addled superspy…
Attention Must be Paid
I get a lot of review CDs. Most of them I listen to once, or not at all, and pass them along to the four or five people who have…
Fiddlin’ Dogs of Capitalism
New York Philharmonic. North Korea. Discuss. p.s. Steve Smith is on the scene. WGBH will air one of the concerts live online on Sunday, March 2, from 3-5 pm. Tuesday…
Calling All Elis
The Yale at Carnegie concert series will honor distinguished faculty member Ezra Laderman at Weill Recital Hall at 8pm on March 3 with a program that features a career-spanning range…
“Music is life, and, like life, inextinguishable.”
Alex Ross has a splendid piece titled Inextinguishable about Carl Nielsen in the New Yorker (yes, the New Yorker) this week. I must confess that I had not paid a…
In Gent
“Deze naam zegt jullie allicht niks, Marco Antonio woont nu nog in Gent, maar verhuist binnenkort naar Deinze. Als solist voor kamer- en orkestmuziek heeft Marco Mazzini internationaal opgetreden in…
We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat
Congratulations are in order to Joan Tower and our friends at Naxos for nearly running the table on the classical music goodies in last night’s Grammy love fest. Tower’s Made…
Leon the Wimp
I wouldn’t have gone but if I had gone I wouldn’t whine about it later from the safety of my keypad.
Let’s Make a List
I’ll start: Fog Tropes – Ingram Marshall When Crows Gather – Lewis Spratlan
Galen Does YouTube
Remember Galen Brown’s piece “Waiting in the Tall Grass” which was premiered by Relâche last November? Sure, you do. Here it is in two parts on YouTube: [youtube]ReYbo4hByHg[/youtube] [youtube]CDWvhfBT9nI&feature=user[/youtube]