The First Emperor Has No Clothes
Anthony Tommasini here. Manuela Hoelterhoff here. An Unamplified Voice here. Maury D’annato here. Jonathan at Wellsung. AP here.
Galina Ustvolskaya, 1919-2006
The Russian composer Galina Ustvoskaya died yesterday. Alex Ross has the details and the (appropriately) terse, German notice from her publisher, Sikorski. I don’t have time now to write much…
What Has Tan Dun?
Well, you’re too late for the $550 Center Parterre Premium seats or the $350 Orchestra Premium seats for tonight’s premiere of Tan Dun’s The First Emperor at the Met but…
A Visit From J.S. Bach
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the city The critics were trying their best to be witty; They printed their lists of the past year’s best fare, In…
Colbert and Young
A while back, Stephen Colbert made fun of John Zorn on the Colbert Report, and I’m pleased to report that tonight he referred, if not by name, to La Monte…
Daniel Pinkham, American Composer, (1923-2006)
Here’s an obituary written by Carson Cooman. American composer Daniel Pinkham passed away on the morning of December 18, 2006 in Natick, Massachusetts, USA after a brief illness. Pinkham, one…
Promoting Modern Music by Stealth
Tom Jackson over at Modernclassical writes: Donald Rosenberg, the classical music critic and correspondent for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, gets the cover of the arts section Sunday with a primer…
Mr. Gaddis Speaks
Stanley moved suddenly, sitting up as though to break a spell. He sat rigid on the edge of the bed, clenching his teeth as though to discipline the activity of…
Alex’s iPod
Steve Layton writes: “Our hip weekly in Seattle, The Stranger, has a yearly “Strangercrombie” Xmas-auction of unusual gifts. One of the music-related gifts up for grabs is this”: Alex Ross’s…
Oh, It Doesn’t Look at All Like Christmas
You wouldn’t know it from the freakish weather (60 degrees today) here in the Center of the Universe but it’s Christmas time and that means it’s time for Phil Kline…