Last Night in L.A.: Homage to 1960
This week’s Los Angeles Philharmonic program honored 1960, with three works composed in that year, a composer of a fourth (and major) work who was born that year, and performed…
Steve’s click picks #28
Jerry’s recent semi-dismissal of our good friend Accordion prompts me to share a couple things, less well known than the usual Pauline Oliveros / Guy Klucevsek suspects: Stefan Hussong (b.…
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…
Last Night in L.A.: Gubaidulina and Schnittke
One of the treats of the Los Angeles Philharmonic programming in recent years has been a series of related concerts on a particular theme of 20th and 21st century music.…
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…
Go Schwanengesang Yourself
A tip of the fedora to Peter Mueller for this handy little link.
Bush Conducts Final GCSO Concert
May 14th, 2019 CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) – President Bush looked tired as he sat down one last time in his famous beige easy chair in the Green Room of Lone…
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…