Balkan Snapshots
Beth recently spent three weeks in the former Yugoslavia performing and teaching piano under the sponsorship of the United States State Department…
Balkan Snapshots
Beth recently spent three weeks in the former Yugoslavia performing and teaching piano under the sponsorship of the United States State Department…
The Nyman Bug
To home in on Nyman’s appeal: his brazenness and fast-moving chord progressions.
The Nyman Bug
To home in on Nyman’s appeal: his brazenness and fast-moving chord progressions.
Dipping into the “EA” Bucket 1.
On September 24, 1961, David Tudor and others gave the first electroacoustic music concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil…
Dipping into the “EA” Bucket 1.
On September 24, 1961, David Tudor and others gave the first electroacoustic music concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil…
Random Noise 6: Super OTW Lives!
Back when hi-fi’s included AM-FM tuners, I would listen now and again to a New-York-area DJ who played music of the Baroque, for the most part Italian.
Random Noise 6: Super OTW Lives!
Back when hi-fi’s included AM-FM tuners, I would listen now and again to a New-York-area DJ who played music of the Baroque, for the most part Italian.
Meat, Potatoes, Parsley: Eötvös, Kagel, Leifs, Pritchard, Stäbler, B.A. Zimmermann
Listen to a sandbox. BMC opens a fascinating view onto an original creator’s work with “Electrochronicle,” wherein Eötvös revisits 1970s electroacoustic work and improvisations.
Meat, Potatoes, Parsley: Eötvös, Kagel, Leifs, Pritchard, Stäbler, B.A. Zimmermann
Listen to a sandbox. BMC opens a fascinating view onto an original creator’s work with “Electrochronicle,” wherein Eötvös revisits 1970s electroacoustic work and improvisations.
Random Noise 5: Successful Trespass
The utterly charming sound-world of Tom Hamilton’s London Fix, Music Changing with the Price of Gold traces its impetus to a neighbor’s computer with its “colorful stock charts,” specifically “the contours of the spot gold market as defined by the twice-daily London Fix.
Random Noise 5: Successful Trespass
The utterly charming sound-world of Tom Hamilton’s London Fix, Music Changing with the Price of Gold traces its impetus to a neighbor’s computer with its “colorful stock charts,” specifically “the contours of the spot gold market as defined by the twice-daily London Fix.
Heavy Rotation in 2003: Czernowin, Formenti, Guerrero, Harada, Harrison, Serkin, Pollini
Possibly, a more truthful title: “Best of 2003 Based on an Arbitrary and Random Selection Assembled by Someone with Predictable Tastes.”
Heavy Rotation in 2003: Czernowin, Formenti, Guerrero, Harada, Harrison, Serkin, Pollini
Possibly, a more truthful title: “Best of 2003 Based on an Arbitrary and Random Selection Assembled by Someone with Predictable Tastes.”
Random Noise 4: Picking Nits and Winners
Expanded capabilities notwithstanding, we can safely predict for the SACD / DVD-A era, should it ever fully supplant the reviled CD, that a badly produced recording will continue to sound like…
Random Noise 4: Picking Nits and Winners
Expanded capabilities notwithstanding, we can safely predict for the SACD / DVD-A era, should it ever fully supplant the reviled CD, that a badly produced recording will continue to sound like…
OONY’s Star-Studded Concert Version of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena
’Twas a dark and stormy winter night, the snow drifts in front of Carnegie Hall melting under the lashes of pounding rain. But inside the hall 2,500 opera buffs basked in the warm, welcoming glow of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, one of his finest works, bristling with dramatic arias and ensembles suitable for world-class virtuoso singers.
OONY’s Star-Studded Concert Version of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena
’Twas a dark and stormy winter night, the snow drifts in front of Carnegie Hall melting under the lashes of pounding rain. But inside the hall 2,500 opera buffs basked in the warm, welcoming glow of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, one of his finest works, bristling with dramatic arias and ensembles suitable for world-class virtuoso singers.
Letter from the Provinces: The End of Music Spells the End of Us All
What prompts such a fatalistic letter? Why, nothing short of the end of the music we know and love.
Letter from the Provinces: The End of Music Spells the End of Us All
What prompts such a fatalistic letter? Why, nothing short of the end of the music we know and love.
Nono at the Close: “Hay que caminar„ soñando
“Caminantes, no hay caminos, hay que caminar.” — Travelers, there are no roads, but we must go on.
Nono at the Close: “Hay que caminar„ soñando
“Caminantes, no hay caminos, hay que caminar.” — Travelers, there are no roads, but we must go on.
A Pianist’s Thoughts on Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13
The opening chords seem to carry the weight of worldly sadness. A descending arpeggio in C-sharp minor supported by chords succeeds in resisting forward motion, giving the theme its somber beauty.
A Pianist’s Thoughts on Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13
The opening chords seem to carry the weight of worldly sadness. A descending arpeggio in C-sharp minor supported by chords succeeds in resisting forward motion, giving the theme its somber beauty.