Liberated Dissonance

The microtonalist composer and theorist Johnny Reinhard invited me to his New York apartment Sunday to hear a new recording, which he is pr...

The most redundant phrase I know Would have to be "the winds that blow." For if the wind's just standing there, Then what y...

The Lady with the Lamp looks out to sea And tells the world, "I'm changing my criteria. Send all your homeless, tempest-tossed to...

Russia went through hell in the 20th century (at present it appears to have graduated into purgatory), and its many great artists bore witn...

For Marjory Oh, how to you feel about Schoenberg? Please tell me in ten words or less. I'll need your opinion in writing Before thi...

Congratulations and thank you to the Fine Art Music Company for its exhilarating program of American music this weekend in Philadelphia. The...

In an earlier post, I mentioned that the director of Choral Arts Philadelphia was at a loss to explain the presence of the sopranino recorde...

Wer sagt, die Deutschen haben keinen Sinn f ü r Humor?

I suppose I'm going to have to weigh in on this whole Bob Dylan-Nobel Prize thing, but since Dylan himself hasn't acknowledged  it y...

Conductor Matthew Glandorf gestures for a soloist to take a bow  after The Choral Arts Society's performance of J.S. Bach's  ...