NEA Gets Stimulus Right
The NEA has announced its plans for the funding it got in the stimulus bill, and the elligibility guidelines make a lot of sense. Back in early February when the…
Tonight at Alice Tully
The festivities continue at the newly reopened Alice Tully Hall tonight, with a concert they’re calling “New York, New Music, New Hall.” The evening gets underway with a preshow at…
Casting a Wide Net for the Three Bs
If you believe that the importance of the arts in these times is inversely proportional to the economic news, than there’s never been a better time for YouTube’s Symphony Orchestra.…
Vlogger Wanted
Anybody know a good classical or new music video blogger? I may have a pretty neat gig for them. Send me a note or leave a note below. sequenza21@gmail.com
Obama and “The Arts”: A Tale of Elitism and Terminology
The LA Times had an encouraging piece a few days ago about the Obama family’s interest in the non-pop arts (thanks to Alex Ross for the link). Apparently the Obamas…
Balm for the Weary Soul
Would be in record stores on March 3 if there were such a thing as record stores. Available here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxKqg0Fwsro
Jarvis at TCNJ
It might be a small, unassuming, and verdantly appointed campus, but within lurks a strong new music contingent! The College of New Jersey is having a faculty composer recital next…
Tweet Memories
Some enterprising folks have put together an updatable master list of artists, musicians and bands on Twitter. (Yes, now you too can tell Jimmy Eat World what you had for…
Who Knew? (beside the droogs, of course)
If you tend to enjoy “litterchur” as well as classical music, you also tend to become aware that authors such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Ezra Pound, and Paul Bowles were intermittently…
Daze of Our Lives
Our always adventuresome friends at Starkland have outdone themselves this time with an ambitious 65-minute studio composition by Phil Kline commissioned specifically for high-resolution surround sound and DVD. Around the…