Your MoM
Last Wednesday, February 28, I had the pleasure of seeing two superb up-and-coming chamber ensembles on a double bill at Music On MacDougal in downtown Manhattan. The Moët Trio (Yuri…
Three-way PR/Marketing Convergence
Yesterday I got an e-mail from a PR person at The Rebel Media Group. One of her clients, John Wesley Harding, has a new album and it’s being promoted with…
Downbeat Ready?
If you’ve been following the stimulus bill, you probably know two things: It includes $50 million for the NEA, and on Tuesday the Senate Democrats announced that they don’t have…
Minimalist Standup
Check out this video from the 2008 Comedy Festival Gala in Melbourne. Make sure you watch all the way to the end of the bit, where it goes all “I…
Reattached, for a limited time only
Corey Dargel’s remarkable “theatrical song cycle” Removable Parts is being reprised at the HERE Arts Center. The run started yesterday and goes through Sunday (Jan 7-11). The show, which is…
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Orff
Interesting piece by Martin Kettle in Friday’s Guardian, but one very strange line: “The musical establishment may continue to agonise over the important question of whether a bad man can…
A Visit From J.S. Bach (Repost)
I first wrote and posted this two years ago, but maybe it will lighten the mood as everybody in the Northeast freaks out about their travel plans and the current…
Checking Up on MOM
Such is my devotion to you, dear reader, that last Wednesday in spite of a bad cold I went to the latest installment of the Music On MacDougal series at…
Some Technical Aspects of Translocation: George Brecht (1926-2008)
Composer, artist, Fluxus member, Scratch Orchestra member, John Cage associate, and chemist George Brecht died in a nursing home in Cologne, Germany, on Friday, December 5th. Brecht, who was born…
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Those of you who were at the first Sequenza21 concert two years ago may remember that pianist Hugh Sung played my piece Systems of Preference or Restraint. What you may…