Liberated Dissonance

Last week I interviewed violinist and conductor Jerome Rosen and violinist and violist Xiao-Fu Zhou for this article on the Independence Sin...

Look, I get it. I edit a daily newspaper and I churn out a lot of music previews, and I know what a challenge the first paragraph of a story...

Just received from the indispensable John Link:   Who else is going?

I spoke with conductor Yoon Jae Lee and composer Peter Hilliard for this article, which discusses an upcoming performance by the Old York ...

Genius is an overused term. Still ...

When I was a little boy, I wanted more than anything in the world to be funny. It took years to realize I'm not, but before I finally ac...

I missed Bartok's birthday on March 25. (Thanks to Lisa Hirsch for her post.) So here, in compensation, is the second movement of his Fi...

Thinking of changing the name of this blog to Topless Jihad &#8212 you know, out of solidarity. But then what would happen to the musi...

Carl Nielsen about age 14 I recently finished rereading Carl Nielsen’s brief memoirr, My Childhood, which, as the title states, deals e...

Was poking around Amazon a moment ago and came across the announcement that Vol. 9 of Bridge Records' Elliott Carter Edition will be i...