Sure It’s a Commie Front, But NPR Rules
The big news today is that NPR and 12 NPR Member stations are launching NPR Music, a free, comprehensive multimedia music discovery Web site, that features on-air and online content…
Marco Antonio Mazzini Plays Alex Shapiro’s “Deep”
For your Thursday dining and dancing pleasure: [youtube]ARqKIw3vV3E[/youtube]
Halloween Spooks Outside My Window
Today’s assignment: the perfect ghosts and goblins playlist.
Serenading the Glorious Leader
The New York Philharmonic is thinking of visiting North Korea next year and that has caused a great deal of tut-tutting from the nuke ’em, don’t serenade ’em crowd. The conservative position was captured…
From the Old Mailbag
Hey, I think you and your readers at sequenza21 will like this piece we just published, by Richard Taruskin: It’s a provocative argument that the dire situation in which classical…
Wish I Had a River I Could Skate Away On
Several good reasons to be glad you weren’t a child prodigy. Oops, forgot. Some of you probably were. Morton Subotnick. Discuss.
The Norman Conquests
Norman Lebrecht is an entertaining writer who has never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Come to think of it, he may have been the world’s first…
How Much Did You Pay?
From the NYT: After Radiohead announced it would allow fans to download its album for whatever price they chose, about a third of the first million or so downloads paid…
El paseo de Buster Keaton
Did you ever wonder why doctors think it’s a good idea for a bunch of sick people to wait together for their exams in a small, overheated, unventilated room? Or why drugstores invariably put the…