Articles by Year: La Folia, 2004.
Transcendentalist Studies: Aimard, Hamelin, Mayer, Mead Tackle Ives’ Concord Sonata
From the year of its publication, the sonata has infuriated as much as it intrigues. Many have attacked the music’s impracticality and presumptuousness. It is, in fact, a monster on the page.
Transcendentalist Studies: Aimard, Hamelin, Mayer, Mead Tackle Ives’ Concord Sonata
From the year of its publication, the sonata has infuriated as much as it intrigues. Many have attacked the music’s impracticality and presumptuousness. It is, in fact, a monster on the page.
Alex Ross Among the Germans
On Alex Ross’ “Ghost Sonata: Adorno and German Music.”
Notes from the Great Vacuum
These days, recordings provide my musical nourishment, with live music as a special occasion. In CDs I look for near-perfection, something satisfyingly well-done that will sustain my interest on repeated hearings.
Notes from the Great Vacuum
These days, recordings provide my musical nourishment, with live music as a special occasion. In CDs I look for near-perfection, something satisfyingly well-done that will sustain my interest on repeated hearings.
Late-Night Musings on a Late Sonata
Inside Beethoven’s sonata one manages a multifaceted, far-ranging and profound beauty of sound, emotion and idea.
Late-Night Musings on a Late Sonata
Inside Beethoven’s sonata one manages a multifaceted, far-ranging and profound beauty of sound, emotion and idea.
Project Notes, Part 28b
At the edge of a neglected cemetery facing the sea, provide 12 pianists with copies of the European Union’s Constitution transcribed into Morse code.
Project Notes, Part 28b
At the edge of a neglected cemetery facing the sea, provide 12 pianists with copies of the European Union’s Constitution transcribed into Morse code.
Silent Running Audio’s Ohio Class Isolation Platforms
As a matter of personal interest, those aspects of audio that most fascinate have generated the greatest controversy.
Silent Running Audio’s Ohio Class Isolation Platforms
As a matter of personal interest, those aspects of audio that most fascinate have generated the greatest controversy.
Sounds Like Now Festival in NYC
Sounds Like Now Festival in New York City at La Ma Ma E.T.C., from October 14 to 17, 2004.
Sounds Like Now Festival in NYC
Sounds Like Now Festival in New York City at La Ma Ma E.T.C., from October 14 to 17, 2004.
From Other Worlds: Bancquart, Hunt, Schoenberg’s Handwriting, the Vihuela
A trusted friend hands you a strangely colored gemstone. It seems to glow from within — a thing from another solar system.
From Other Worlds: Bancquart, Hunt, Schoenberg’s Handwriting, the Vihuela
A trusted friend hands you a strangely colored gemstone. It seems to glow from within — a thing from another solar system.
Random Noise 8: You Are an Audiophile
You are an audiophile. And there’s nothing to apologize for. Nothing!
Random Noise 8: You Are an Audiophile
You are an audiophile. And there’s nothing to apologize for. Nothing!
No Longer and Not Yet
Some of us have hobbyhorses; French serialist Jean Barraqué (1928-1973) is one of mine.
No Longer and Not Yet
Some of us have hobbyhorses; French serialist Jean Barraqué (1928-1973) is one of mine.
Schoenberg’s “Mis-Handel-ing” and Other Curiosities
We dwell rather on a few monstrous creations by composers who should have known better. Step at your own risk behind a dingy sideshow curtain to gawk at a shelf of specimens in dirty jars.
Schoenberg’s “Mis-Handel-ing” and Other Curiosities
We dwell rather on a few monstrous creations by composers who should have known better. Step at your own risk behind a dingy sideshow curtain to gawk at a shelf of specimens in dirty jars.
Ten Poems
Beth Levin has set two of her own poems, “Brooklyn” and “Sleeping Woman,” to music. They will be performed by mezzo Emily Howard at the Brooklyn Conservatory on September 12, 2004.
Ten Poems
Beth Levin has set two of her own poems, “Brooklyn” and “Sleeping Woman,” to music. They will be performed by mezzo Emily Howard at the Brooklyn Conservatory on September 12, 2004.