Liberated Dissonance

Between one thing and another, I have fallen far behind on my blogging, but I didn’t want too much time to go by without mentioning a pair o...

Yesterday I took the Jersey Transit to New York for the 2 p.m. all-Elliott Carter program at Carnegie Hall. Leon Botstein conducted the Am...

The Independence Sinfonia, a good group that is getting better, will present a concert Nov. 10 at Or Hadash in Fort Washington. On the progr...

Here at the paper, we leave the police scanner on 24 hours a day. Recently the cops instituted a little, two-note electronic alarm — a litt...

My second Spotify playlist has been posted on the homepage of the Times Herald. This one is titled “Weird Piano Music,” for reasons that ne...

Click here  to read my article on the upcoming concert by Orchestra 2001 scheduled for November 3 in Swarthmore. The Daedalus Quartet will b...

Yesterday was Charles Ives's bithday, which is always a special occasion for me, even if I do nothing to observe it. I didn't get to...

Here at the Norristown Times Herald , our online editor has set up something called the Spotify Music Corner, and she'd asked our editor...

I emailed Napoleon Murphy Brock the link to my impressions of the Grandmothers (see below) and received the following reply, which I prese...

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