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The best of times, the worst of times
“But I do believe the people who are the most immortal are the composers. The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is. And…
How Christopher Rouse Does His Thing
Consider this: Christopher Rouse does not compose every day; he starts every piece in full score, on measure one; he doesn’t use a piano much, because he can hardly play;…
Thile hilet ileth lethi ethil
A good time is to be had this Saturday night at Zankel Hall. Chris Thile and The Tensions Mountain Boys will premiere his bluegrass/classical suite “The Blind Leading the Blind.”…
Dispatch from The Miller: Lost Highway
Watching Olga Neuwirth’s opera Lost Highway is like watching a Harry Potter movie after having read the book: the material transfers all right, but one wishes the team behind the…
Dispatch from Juilliard: Chinary Ung
One of the many pleasures of the brief (but free) all-Chinary Ung concert given earlier today at Juilliard by the Da Capo Chamber Players was the absence of any blathering…
Happy Birthday to Hugh!
The Tablet PC-wielding piano-playing super-awesome Hugh Sung is celebrating one year as a blogger. He has a podcast here introducing his cool gear to musicians. Get with the program, folks,…
These are the days, my friends.
Nice burble of activity going on here. Way to keep the fires burning, people. Robert Zimmerman’s learning how to take the heat over in the Composers Forum. Click on comments:…
(“Achoo! I think I have a cold today. Better call in sick. And read Sequenza21!”)
Sometimes you don’t need to travel far to be where the hot stuff’s happening. We’ve got fresh action on a lot of fronts here at the ole dump. First stop:…
Oh boy, oh boy!
I had never given a moment’s thought to music written for television until 1997. I was watching The Late Show with the great Peter Takács when he suddenly – in…