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: mfwam-jqMn4 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…
Fiddlin’ Dogs of Capitalism
New York Philharmonic. North Korea. Discuss. p.s. Steve Smith is on the scene. WGBH will air one of the concerts live online on Sunday, March 2, from 3-5 pm. Tuesday…
Avant-Garde Take Note
And you thought all those novel techniques came from post-1950s Euro-modernists?: Nathan, Jasper and Weldon Drake; Weslaco, Texas, 1942 (Thanks to the amazing historical high-res archives at Shorpy.com)
Young Yalies United Will Never Be Defeated
New Yawkers could do worse at 8 p.m. on March 1st, than drop by Roulette, plunk down a $10 and slurp-munch free refreshments, all while checking out this great little…
Calling All Elis
The Yale at Carnegie concert series will honor distinguished faculty member Ezra Laderman at Weill Recital Hall at 8pm on March 3 with a program that features a career-spanning range…
“Music is life, and, like life, inextinguishable.”
Alex Ross has a splendid piece titled Inextinguishable about Carl Nielsen in the New Yorker (yes, the New Yorker) this week. I must confess that I had not paid a…