The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is always a solemn occasion, of course, and while some of the sting of that awful day has begun to be replaced with a less immediate sense of general mourning for many Americans, we … Continue reading →
In a recent New Yorker article )”Why So Serious?”), Alex Ross discusses the ritualization and relative rigidity of the format of modern-day classical music concerts. Included are the usual suspects: the overture-concerto-intermission-symphony format; the insistence on silence between movements of … Continue reading →
I was recently reading a review of the Houston Symphony’s season opening concert (a friend of mine was soloing with them,) and was struck by something essentially non-musical that bothered the critic enough to merit a mention: After Houston Symphony … Continue reading →
A cool new study came out last week, in which researchers asked a wide-ranging sample of music fans to describe aspects of their personality, then used the data to correlate different types of people with the genres of music that … Continue reading →
In the spirit of orchestral lip-synching and discussions on political speechwriting, I thought it would be an apropos moment to share my favorite example of putting words/sounds into other people’s mouths. (This made the rounds on Youtube about a year … Continue reading →
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In honor of closing night at the Republican Convention across the river, here’s a clip of another (in)famous Republican politician tickling the ivories. (And yes, that’s Jack Paar introducing him.) For some reason, the sound cuts out about 40 seconds … Continue reading →
As everyone knows, the Cities are swarming with Republicans this week, and the whole metro has taken on a strange feel. Cities don’t come much more liberal than ours, so playing host to the biggest GOP gathering of the year … Continue reading →
It was somewhere around the middle of my time at Greenwood this August that I found myself sitting in the middle of a crowd of around 150 people squeezed into a tiny church on a lonesome dirt road in the … Continue reading →
