Category Archives: music and animals

Of Ghouls, Gophers, & Viola

Posted on
Oct 29 2010
 by Sam Bergman

Viola, Minnesota town line. October 2010. Abandon hope all ye who enter here… Halloween weekend is a fun time for musicians – certain holidays just lend themselves to musical spectacle, and this is obviously one of them. Witches and devils … Continue reading →

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Sunday brevia

Posted on
Oct 24 2010
 by Sarah

Just in case you were inundated with election news all week and missed out on the good stuff, a few items: First up: a movement to make John Cages’ 4’33″ number one on the UK charts for Christmas (a publicity … Continue reading →

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News from Down Under

Posted on
Jun 1 2010
 by Sarah

Couldn’t resist this one: do you think there’s any chance these two news items might be connected in some way? Like, if high-frequency sound affects stage machinery reliability?

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Autumnal canines

Posted on
Nov 10 2008
 by Sarah

Well, it’s an iPod day on the blog. Sam’s post made me think back to my drive from Washington DC home to Richmond earlier today, with the iPod on shuffle. A gem I hadn’t listened to in a while; Coltrane … Continue reading →

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Forget the Berlin Philharmonic…

Posted on
Apr 15 2008
 by Sarah

…I want to conduct THIS ensemble, particularly in a concert of “Beethoven and Hank Williams”… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UMJ8qfw-4E]

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Howl

Posted on
Nov 6 2007
 by Sarah

Quite a few years ago I was driving back to Philadelphia from Maine after a summer at the Pierre Monteux School in my Pontiac LeMans hatchback (I called her “Jezebel” – what a dreadful little car…) packed with suitcases, crates … Continue reading →

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