Jerry’s Top 10 for 2006
Finally, my top 10 for the year. Okay, so I’m a conservative old fart…but these are the recordings I enjoyed most during the year. I gave most of the more adventuresome…
Marvin’s Friday Feldmanathon
Our friend Marvin Rosen will be airing the entire 6 hour seven minute version of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2, by the Flux Quartet, beginning at 11 am, EST on…
The First Emperor Has No Clothes
Anthony Tommasini here. Manuela Hoelterhoff here. An Unamplified Voice here. Maury D’annato here. Jonathan at Wellsung. AP here.
What Has Tan Dun?
Well, you’re too late for the $550 Center Parterre Premium seats or the $350 Orchestra Premium seats for tonight’s premiere of Tan Dun’s The First Emperor at the Met but if you…
Daniel Pinkham, American Composer, (1923-2006)
Here’s an obituary written by Carson Cooman. American composer Daniel Pinkham passed away on the morning of December 18, 2006 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA after a brief illness. Pinkham, one…
Alex’s iPod
Steve Layton writes: “Our hip weekly in Seattle, The Stranger, has a yearly “Strangercrombie” Xmas-auction of unusual gifts. One of the music-related gifts up for grabs is this”: Alex Ross’s…
Oh, It Doesn’t Look at All Like Christmas
You wouldn’t know it from the freakish weather (60 degrees today) here in the Center of the Universe but it’s Christmas time and that means it’s time for Phil Kline to lead…