Born in the U.S.A.
Composers, painters, writers, the whole motley lot–have always depended upon the kindness of strangers. Timely financial interventions of the Lorenzo de’ Medici here, the Nadezda von Meck there, the Paul…
Ranking the Music Blogs
Scott Spiegelberg of Musical Perceptions is a very brave man who obviously doesn’t have enough abuse going on in his life. (By the way, we should have been number four,…
Down, Cujo. Down.
Okay, sports fans, here’s something you’ll like. Today, beginning at 6 pm PST and running through midnight (That would be 9 pm to 3 am {thanks, Andrea for straightening me…
Blue Jeff
The Composers Concordance is having a concert tomorrow night at 8PM at the Greenwich House Music School Renee Weiler Concert Hall, 46 Barrow Street which will star our very own…
Multi-Culti
Marco Antonio Mazzini is a Peruvian clarinetist with an Italian name who lives in Belgium and plays with a Czech orchestra called the Ostravska Banda which–as fate would have it–is…
All We Hear is Radio Ga-Ga
Our West Coast colleagues at Other Minds marked what would have been Lou Harrison’s 90th birthday on Monday by relaunching radiOM.org, their amazing, free treasure trove of streaming audio and…
Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me?
We’ve gotten a lot (actually, three) requests for a “media kit” from potential advertisers recently. We don’t actually have such a thing because we don’t actively look for advertising (the…
It’s Very Fancy on Old Delancey
Here’s something to put in your calendar. Our friends at the Metropolis Ensemble, led by Artistic Director Andrew Cyr, have a fabulous program called “There and Back Again” lined up…
John C. Adams, Harvard ’69
The Harvard Crimson reports on the return of a notable alumnus who has done pretty well in this composing business and had this to say about his old teacher Leon…
The Incredible Hipness of Carl Nielsen
For reasons I no longer remember, I had always thought of Carl Nielsen as a stodgy composer whose works were a little severe and chilly–the musical equivalent of one of…