9/11 in Music
On September 15, 2001 Kalvos & Damian put out a call for pieces composed in reflection of the September 11th tragedies in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania, to be broadcast…
Saturday Bidness
Fabulous review of Corey Dargel’s “darkly enchanting” theater piece about voluntary amputation, Removable Parts, in today’s New York Times. A few years from now when Corey is permanently ensconsed in…
Ciao, Luciano
Okay, he stayed too long at the fair. The idea of a 60-year-old, 400-pound man playing a starving artist failed to suspend disbelief. The three tenors crap was execrable. He probably inspired…
The Morning Zoo at WPRB
Had a great time this morning on Marvin Rosen’s Classical Discoveries radio show in Princeton and on the worldwide Internets. I didn’t get a chance to play as much of…
Cage at 95; Bowles & Oteri at 8:30
Tomorrow would have been John Cage’s 95th birthday and to mark the occasion, Avant Media Performance is staging two multimedia realizations of works by Cage at the The Kitchen, 512 West…
Oteri & Bowles–The Reunion Tour
Marvin Rosen has a terrific Classical Discoveries program coming up next Wednesday. His guests from 8:30 am until 11 will be the legendary Frank J. Oteri and…umm, me. That assumes, of course, neither of us…
I Know I Am
As those of you who come round here regularly know, I’m not a composer or musician but I am an experienced listener with limited patience for things that take too long to get…
Quitting Just Ain’t My Schtick
Rodney has been doing such a great job with the Proms that it’s given me time to finish one of my new projects–the Cleantech Collective, a social community for people who…
Programming Note
9 P.M. (Lifetime) LOVE NOTES When a classical music critic becomes pregnant from a fling with (gasp!) a country-music singer, she decides to give her baby to her infertile best…