Monday, September 30, 2013

They're Not Only in It for The Money

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The current lineup of Grandmothers of Invention is, from left, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Max Kutner, Chris Garcia, Dave Johnsen, and Don Pr...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Why do we like sad music?

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The Sunday New York Times has an interesting article by Professor Ai Kawakami describing a study on listeners' reactions to music the a...

Interview with Don Preston

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The Grandmothers of Invention will appear at the Sellersville Theater September 29, and I had the pleasure of writing a preview, based on a ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

More coments on my Carter talk

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These two comments from members of the Philadelphia Friends of Classical Music: "Wonderful lecture given by Joe Barron, well thought ...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Speaking of Carter

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After decades of listening, study, and concertgoing, I gave my first real lecture on Elliott Carter last night. I spoke to the Philadelphia ...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Voyager I crosses into interstellar space

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NASA has confirmed that Voyager I, now more than 11 billion miles from earth, crossed the heliopause in August 2012, thus becoming the first...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

EC PC: Lateiner v. Oppens

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Over the past week, two of my most knowledgeable correspondents have written stating their preference for the premiere recording of Elliott ...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Another vote for Lateiner

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Another of my correspondents also prefers the Lateiner/Leinsdorf recording of Carter's Piano Concerto to the competition. He writes: ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Carter News

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John G. writes: I thought you might like to know that the first (LP) recording of the Carter Piano Concerto (Lateiner / Leinsdorf / BSO)...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Which bios d'ya read?

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These days I’ve been breezing through Alan Pryce-Jones slim little study of Beethoven. The book repeats my favorite anecdote about the compo...