Liberated Dissonance

The Detroit Symphony is scheudled to perfrom the four symphonies of Charles Ives at Carnegie Hall in May 2013. I find myself on the horns o...

Thanks to WPRB Princeton for broadcasting Nielsen's great Clarinet Concerto this morning. The beautiful, round-toned reading by the sol...

The folk trio with two names — Kinagree Smith — played two sets last night at Flying Fish in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. The venue is the ...

Friday, December 30, was my daughter's 25th birthday.

This just in from the Charles Ives Society Newsletter: The Ives Society Critical Edition of Ives｡ｯs Symphony No. 4 was published today by As...

I had a nice afternoon, and it had nothing to do with New Year’s Eve. The young pianist William McNally, a student of Jacob Lateiner and Urs...

The pianist Charles Rosen has posted his impressions of Elliott Carter's 103rd birthday concert on the New York Review of Book website. ...

Soprano Tony Arnold has written an informative blog post on the challenges inherent in singing the vocal music of Elliott Carter. Brief as ...

This from a friend this morning, via email: Heard on KYW this morning that the most popular Christmas song this year is "Sleighride,...

Thanks to John Baron (no relation) for recommending this version: This doesn't really count, since I didn't come across it accidenta...