Marco Antonio Mazzini Plays Alex Shapiro’s “Deep”
For your Thursday dining and dancing pleasure: ARqKIw3vV3E
Halloween Spooks Outside My Window
Today’s assignment: the perfect ghosts and goblins playlist.
Serenading the Glorious Leader
The New York Philharmonic is thinking of visiting North Korea next year and that has caused a great deal of tut-tutting from the nuke ’em, don’t serenade ’em crowd. The…
Somebody didn’t get the memo
The biggest shock of the day was reading in the NYTimes Book Review a review by Pankaj Mishra of Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff, the following…
A Tale of Two Györgys
Recent postings here notwithstanding, I swear I’m not on a complete György Ligeti kick; but it just so happens that the German-news-in-English website Sign and Sight has printed the translation…
From the Old Mailbag
Hey, I think you and your readers at sequenza21 will like this piece we just published, by Richard Taruskin: It’s a provocative argument that the dire situation in which classical…
Wish I Had a River I Could Skate Away On
Several good reasons to be glad you weren’t a child prodigy. Oops, forgot. Some of you probably were. Morton Subotnick. Discuss.
Piotr Szewczyk’s Violin Futura Rocks On
After his spectacular Spoleto Festival performance of the 16 piece Violin Futura set, Piotr Szewczyk continues to promote the series with a new video and an upcoming gig at the…
Steve’s click picks #39
Our regular listen to and look at living, breathing musicians that you may not know yet, but I know you should… And can, right here and now, since they’re nice…
APPOMATTOX: The War Within
6J14flyMOQo Human behavior’s funny. The more we try to change the more we don’t seem able to. Are we cursed to repeat the same mistakes in our private lives —…