Profiling Matrix Music Collaborators
Remember how you bought a bunch of Yahoo! stock at $13 per share when they went public in April of 1996, and how by January of 2000 those shares peaked…
But If So, To What Extent?
Dear Sequenza21 folks, I enjoy your site immensely. It is really a wealth of information and opinions – a kind of lively gathering of the diverse personalities that inhabit contemporary…
Alex Takes Some Lumps
While Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise is winning awards over thisaway, its recent release in England gives a chance for the other side of the ocean to beat him up…
I Left My (Spanish) Heart in San Francisco
Things happen when you pay attention. Resemblances line up, and disjunctions jar. These things certainly happened when I caught Word for Word’s theatricalization of James Baldwin’s Harlem-set story Sonny’s Blues,…
Teddy, you’re doing a heck of a job!
This Saturday night at Greenwich House, composer Ted Hearne pays loving tribute to the glorious achievements of state and federal officials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. An hour long…
Lost and Found
I’m a bit late in reviewing this, but two Saturdays ago, February 23, the Lost Dog New Music ensemble performed at Judson Memorial Church at Washington Square in Manhattan. Lost…
Would You Believe…
A long, long time ago, boys and girls, there was a very funny TV series called Get Smart, starring a Borscht Belt comic named Don Adams as a brain-addled superspy…
Xenakis talks
It’s now just a smidge over seven years since Iannis Xenakis died. And almost exactly 13 years ago, Xenakis sat down for this amicable interview in English: [youtube]mfwam-jqMn4[/youtube] This is…
Attention Must be Paid
I get a lot of review CDs. Most of them I listen to once, or not at all, and pass them along to the four or five people who have…
Three Moments musicaux with Hilary Hahn
I. Early in our conversation yesterday, Hilary Hahn, loquacious and genial throughout, was chatting openly about music and athleticism; about how half her practice time was geared towards staying in…