Non-architecture typical of the builder-designed antisepsis or Stepford school--big double and triple garages with houses attached.
Continue reading Theme In Search Of Development.
July 2011 Archives
A really great example of arts integration and project-based learning.
Continue reading A Favorite Video: A Mural of Mythic Proportions.
What's On View In Iceland; A Visit to The Reykjavik Art Museums -- Yes, That's Plural
Continue reading What I Did On My Summer Vacation.
Satchmo's private tapes on the BBC and Jerry Goldsmith's "Chinatown" score on mp3.
Continue reading For your listening pleasure.
Introducing a new blog on the arts and community engagement.
Continue reading New Blog on the Block.
Continue reading Clarification by Kurt Masur on the Brazil situation.
Slits Own Throat Again
Continue reading MoMA Raises Price Again....
Continue reading The greatest living Lieder singer - on the Lebrecht Interview.
Continue reading Was this the Mariinsky's first opera in English?.
Continue reading Stockhausen junior writes new Ring for Berlin.
Continue reading What we're giving Riccardo Muti for his 70th birthday.
Continue reading New law against faked-up recordings?.
Museum Expands, Costs Rise, Visitor Numbers Disappoint, Now What? Possible Closure?
Continue reading A Too, Too Familiar Tale.
From close reading of the bond prospectus, it appears that stipulated sales procedures weren't followed. Could AFAM have gotten more?
Shakespeare & Company's "Romeo and Juliet" and "As You Like It" reviewed.
Continue reading Just like new.
Continue reading Sad news: A second sax king dies.
MoMA Raises Entry Price; Come September 1, General Admission Will Be $25. Mandatory...Another Museum Will Be Free
Continue reading Breaking News -- UPDATED.
Continue reading News just in: Salzburg dedicates opening concert to fallen media mogul.
Continue reading The other Frank has died.
Continue reading Barcelona leads new wave of Dutch solidarity.
Continue reading How Lorin Maazel spends a lazy weekend.
Continue reading Gidon Kremer's rebellion - a leading maestro voices his support.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
For FY 2012, It's Doing Much Better Than Most Programs, Much Better Than Expected
Continue reading What About The Smithsonian's Budget?.
How do boys' voices mature? Brits and yanks have opposing views on the matter.
Continue reading Breaking vs. Changing.
Foster was important to the Count Basie band as a tenor saxophonist, composer and arranger for more than a decade
Continue reading Frank Foster, 1928-2011.
See the five thorny issues that I targeted for future consideration by AAM's nascent think tank. Send me your suggestions.
Continue reading Exclusive secrets from Bayreuth - welcome to the Katie Wagner diet.
Continue reading Brazil: orchestra now in full retreat.
Continue reading Just in: Leading artists will receive easier UK visas.
Continue reading Breaking: Domingo to lead fight against pirates, supposedly.
Continue reading Museum discovers massive cache of lost instruments.
Continue reading A Brazil situation in the US Midwest.
The film Dancer in the Dark is now an opera on DVD and at Lincoln Center Festival.
Continue reading If Bjork left you hanging.....
Rossini's Guillaume Tell is suddenly on both sides of the Atlantic. Was its only sin its length?
Continue reading The Opera That Was Invisible in Plain Sight.
This week's video: Flanders & Swann sing "A Song of Patriotic Prejudice."
Continue reading Snapshot.
...but here are a few pro trips from Alec Baldwin and a cartoon cat with a Pop-Tart body
Continue reading There are no social media experts.
Want to be inspired???
Continue reading Whitehouse.gov Showcases Videos on Arts Education Champions.
A "Fabulous" Musical Instrument Trove From 20 Countries, In Storage. But What's Next?
Continue reading Cincinnati Museum Uncovers A Collection.
rapidly, one realizes what is being circulated here as an "opportunity" is not quite what it seems to be.
Continue reading Chorus conductor killed in rehearsal.
Continue reading Breaking: Major blow for Brazil - Kurt Masur cancels his concerts.
Alexei Ratmansky's ballets--homegrown and from Russia
Continue reading Share the Wealth.
Continue reading The first-ever classical artist at iTunes festival.
A singing escalator, and the history of No. 1 pop singles, compressed into just a few seconds for each song.
Continue reading Intermezzo.
High technology allows sound recordings of greater and greater surface perfection -- maybe we don't want it
Continue reading Verismo.
Already testing boundaries of what he can get away with, his site posts document protesting handling of his tax case.
Continue reading Zorba no more.
Here's how I decide what out-of-town shows to cover in The Wall Street Journal.
Continue reading So you want to get reviewed.
Michael Winterbottom's The Trip wraps a traditional theme in an innovative package
Continue reading Old Wine In New Bottles.
Titian's Women In A Blue Dress Has Started A National Tour; She's Perfected For A Single-Painting Show
Continue reading In Praise Of La Bella.
Grammy-winning Hancock uses jazz to cross boundaries and encourage literacy, creativity
Continue reading Pianist Herbie Hancock named UNESCO "goodwill ambassador".
Continue reading Domingo's Operalia - the winners: a South African and an American.
Nelson Algren gave Joseph Heller the biggest boost he ever got. But he's excluded from Vanity Fair's Heller biography excerpt.
Continue reading What's the Catch?.
Continue reading Another young Venezuelan gets his foot on the maestro ladder.
Continue reading Breaking: who's been named for the bicentennial Bayreuth Ring?.
Continue reading What Placido Domingo is paying his Operalia musicians.
"Satchmo at the Waldorf," my first play, opens in Orlando on Sept. 15. Read all about it.
Continue reading And away we go!.
Louis Armstrong performs "Blueberry Hill" in 1963.
Continue reading Just because.
Lively Philadelphian Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Ornette Coleman protégé, scores big
Continue reading Electric free-funk bassist gets $60k Pew Fellowship.
Skyscaper Museum Exhibit Tracks And Shows Off The Tallest Of The Tall; How Many Now And Where?
Continue reading A Census Of The "Supertalls".
Eckhart Tolle should be training the ushers
Continue reading A moment of attention is enough.
Continue reading A good news story - from the heart of the Norway horror.
An edgy New York pianist, a veteran bassist who also sings and a formidable Spanish baritone saxophonist
Continue reading Recent Listening: Shipp, Crow, Chamorro.
Continue reading Was Amy Winehouse hacked to death?.
The Marinsky Ballet shone in Ratmansky's "The Little Humpbacked Horse" and Balanchine's "Symphony in C"
Continue reading Russian Unorthodox.
Continue reading Great composer caught in the slips.
If Bjork left you hanging in the film Dancer in the Dark, the new Poul Ruders opera delivers an abstracted ritualized version of the tragic story with a whiff of Sophie's Choice.
Continue reading Dancer in the Dark now sings on DVD and at Lincoln Center Festival.
Sophia Loren is a jazz fan. Who knew?
Continue reading Sophia, Dave And Dizzy.
On the torture of no one -- not even the actors -- knowing when the curtain will fall
Continue reading When Will It End?.
Continue reading News just in: Now Bryn Terfel quits Verbier.
Continue reading Verbier latest: resident composer appeals to defecting Kremer.
Continue reading Gidon Kremer: why I quit the celebrity ratrace.
What is the greater backdrop to new testing of arts learning???
Continue reading Waiting for Godot. If You Test It They Will Come. (Updated).
BMFA won't publish full provenance (or image) of lone Lewis loan. Convoluted history (and planned return) of another Boston antiquity.
Continue reading Freak throat accident knocks lead mezzo out of Salzburg.
Continue reading Lunch won't be the same without Lucian.
Continue reading Gidon Kremer posts English version of his attack on festival hype.
Shakespeare & Company's "The Memory of Water" and the Peterborough Players' "Ancestral Voices" reviewed.
Continue reading Three-sister act.
How malignant perfectionism lays artists low.
Continue reading The snare of perfectionism.
Or, In This Case, Reattributed: Is That A Michelangelo On An Oxford Dining Hall Wall
Continue reading Yet Another Rediscovered Masterpiece.
Continue reading German record awards: who gets the classical prizes?.
When two forces of good in a community collide
Continue reading Competing Goods.
Continue reading What the well-dressed pianist is (sort of) wearing.
State Department refuses (temporarily) to divulge full text of signed agreement. AAMD's President Monroe and CPAC's incoming chair, Gerstenblith, comment.
Continue reading Greek Cultural-Property Agreement: U.S. Adopts Broad Import Restrictions.
Continue reading Chancellor Merkel adopts a youth orchestra.
..The graphic image of 9/11 is quickly spurring debate
Continue reading Steve Reich's New CD Cover: Is It An Outrage or Not?.
Continue reading UK drops music and art from new school leaving standard.
Continue reading Place your orders now: Netrebko wants to open a restaurant.
Continue reading As one composer to another - a radio documentary.
Continue reading Breaking: Jeffrey Archer's journo is writing the Murdoch story.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Stan VanDerBeek at CAMH, Charles LeDray at the MFAH.
Continue reading Have You Been Too Busy to Think About Your Life?.
How The NEA Manages To Give Money To Individual Artists, And The Total Awards Are Increasing
Continue reading Just Call It A Workaround.
Many things I've heard musicians say -- and they suggest that orchestras don't reward creativity.
Continue reading The culture I've seen.
Two companies from abroad visit Jacob's Pillow
Continue reading Dark Matters in Summer Spaces.
Continue reading Ever heard the music of A Clockwork Orange?.
A moral leader ignored by western media
Continue reading The patron saint of lost musicians.
Six names are in the air. Decisions aren't.
Continue reading Hawass Watch: New Candidates for Antiquities Minister Post.
An accessible new book about Shostakovich's string quartets provides a fascinating entry-point into the composer's life and work
Continue reading Music for Silenced Voices.
This week's video: Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten perform Schubert's "Mein."
Continue reading Snapshot.
'The Hour' ends the moment it opens its mouth
Continue reading Very bad language on the BBC.
Continue reading Even the bandos abandon Brazil.
Lincoln Center has their copywriter Andrew Shuttleworth handle the Royal Shakespeare Company social media as himself.
Continue reading Be not afraid of greatness.
Can You Guess Who The Met Honored With Its First Solo Show For A Woman? And When?
Continue reading This Speaks Volumes.
Zahi Hawass has nine lives as Egypt's antiquities minister. But this reprieve may be short-lived. Cabinet shake-up delayed.
Continue reading He's Ba-a-a-ck! Hawass Reportedly Reassumes Antiquities Post (for now).
Zahi Hawass has nine lives as Egypt's antiquities minister. But this reprieve may be short-lived. Cabinet shake-up delayed.
Continue reading He's Ba-a-a-ck! Hawass Reportedly Reassumes Antiquities Post (for now).
Continue reading Juilliard statement: We are not teaching America's Got Talent star.
Continue reading Breaking: Verbier Festival responds to violinist's hostile statement.
Okay, Arena Stage has a playwright support initiative that cost $1M. What do the rest of us do?
Reflections following five days at a gem of a summer music festival
Continue reading A Music Festival In The Grand Tetons.
Orchestra musicians don't like their conductors, and feel they have no control over their work.
Continue reading More unsatisfied.
The definition is somewhat arbitrary and often are less about talent and gift, and more about class and motivated parents.
Continue reading Programs for the Ungifted and Untalented.
Continue reading A man's torso rising out of the water... and heading our way.
Continue reading Pittsburgh lands a major winner.
Details on eight works loaned to VMFA by Joseph Lewis, recently indicted for allegedly smuggling other objects. Examine the provenances.
Is the living eternity of serving a life sentence relaxing? Annoying? Unbearable? Prisoners speak and are made to sing.
Continue reading Postcards from Oblivion.
Holbein Masterpiece, Just Sold Privately For At Least $70 Million, Has An Infamous Backstory
Continue reading The Madonna With A Past.
Wheeler, on flugelhorn, penetrates the album's air of thoughtful melancholy with the pungency of his interval leaps
Continue reading Recent Listening: Kenny Wheeler.
He's beginning to resemble Wile e Coyote. Watch it happen.
Continue reading Over the Cliff With Rupe Again.
Orchestra musicians are fiercely committed to playing well -- but aren't highly satisfied.
Continue reading Not so satisfied.
After archaeologists' protest and rejection of nominee by Supreme Council of Antiquities, Prime Minister reconsiders. Will cabinet post be eliminated?
Hawass's Replacement Has Already Been Ousted; Archaeologists Protest...Ministry May Be Reduced To "Authority"
Continue reading Chaos In Egypt -- UPDATED.
Continue reading Six new kids on the BBC block.
Continue reading Cellist to have monument in the middle of Moscow.
Continue reading How to break up an agency - in German.
Continue reading A tale of two maestro brothers - on the Lebrecht Interview tonight.
Continue reading The daily toll: Holland's Ronnie Barker has died.
One of many appointments. Already protests are brewing against the new antiquities minister, a specialist in restoration, not archaeology.
Deborah Jowitt now writing a blog, DanceBeat, for ArtsJournal.
Continue reading Deborah Jowitt.
Some preliminary thoughts on Universal's forthcoming 10-CD Louis Armstrong box set.
Continue reading Pops in a box.
Not quite sure about the inelegant word "blog." But for me, writing about dance is a way of expressing what matters to me about the dance of life, desires, and imagination
Continue reading Deborah Jowitt's New AJ Blog.
Condemned to Music is more than a blog; it's a state of being
Continue reading David Patrick Stearns' New AJ Blog.
Egypt Reshuffles Cabinet
Continue reading Zahi Hawass Is Out -- This Time For Real? -- UPDATED.
Continue reading Festival founder quits after 30 years.
Continue reading 'Gay' school opera goes ahead without incident.
Continue reading America's Got Talent star is studying at Juilliard.
Continue reading Breaking: Much-loved American singer dies.
Continue reading Breaking: Brazil's crisis conductor forced to reduce role.
VMFA says it has eight Lewis loans, thought to be "purchased by the owner and lent in good faith."
Boston MFA, Carlos Museum reportedly got gifts/loans of objects (not necessarily smuggled) from Lewis. Read entire 17-page indictment.
Continue reading We name the naked string quartet - and play the video.
...I will miss the very un-agency-like director of arts education at the Arts Endowment.
Continue reading A Salute To Sarah Cunningham As She Leaves the NEA.
Continue reading Canadian soprano dies - rare pics from a half-forgotten past.
Continue reading Something missing in this string quartet? (like, their clothes...).
Continue reading Rebekah Brooks is dropped - exclusive picture.
Continue reading Another dodgy agent on the Facebook prowl.
The Royal Shakespeare Company's "As You Like It" and Cape May Stage's "The Understudy" reviewed.
Continue reading A stage for all seasons.
Today's entry: Clifford Bax on the abnormality of the professional drama critic.
Continue reading Almanac.
Jazz for sailing in New York Harbor at night, electronic music coming to Governor's Island
Continue reading Beyond jazz in the waters off NYC .
What Happened When The Met Held A Photo Contest To Get Visitors To Look Harder At The Art
Continue reading An Exercise In Web Outreach.
A discussion of borrowed, shared or stolen melodies, with video illustrations
Continue reading Gotta Be Something.
In the history of exasperatingly difficult-to-organize exhibitions, few can top Asia Society's beleaguered Pakistan show, opening next month.
Continue reading Is this the Wayne Rooney of classical music?.
Continue reading Conductor and soloist have temperamental malfunction.
A point of information for Annie Sprinkle.
Continue reading A 'John' Named Nelson Algren.
Continue reading Beware the bogus Facebook agent.
Continue reading Author signs 75-book deal.
Continue reading Bayreuth's old pals chip in three million.
What happened when George Patton met George Cukor.
Continue reading Anecdotage.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Post-mortem musings on a gathering of performance arts professionals in San Francisco to discuss the topic of violence
Continue reading A Theatre Salon on the Theme of Violence.
Detroit Institute of Arts Borrows Income From Endowments For Operations; Why That Gets A Pass From Me
Continue reading It's Not Ideal, But....
Has anyone actually investigated how to attract more people in the 65+ demographic?
Continue reading Love the One You're With, A Reflection.
House budget for NEA, $135 million, keeps Jazz Masters & Heritage Fellowships
Continue reading House Appropriations Committee tells NEA: Keep Jazz Masters.
This week's video: Walt Disney's "All the Cats Join In," featuring the music of Benny Goodman.
Continue reading Snapshot.
MFA-Boston, Needled Last Year, Awards First Maud Morgan Prize (To A Female Mass. Artist) Since 2006
Continue reading A Little Nagging Works.
At American Ballet Theatre, guest artist Alina Cojocaru wins hearts and minds
Continue reading Alina Cojocaru at ABT.
Continue reading Government calls in loan Strads to dodge bailiffs.
Morbidly impelled to visit AFAM, I saw that building's possible destruction as Dr. Barnes' retribution against architects of Philly Barnes.
Mozart's music offers an almost constantly shifting and evolving rendering of human state-of-mind
Continue reading Quick Change Artist.
Will the developing digital media marketplace eventually lead to a resurgence in valuing high quality over cheap, anonymous quantity?
Continue reading Navigating the Brave New World.
Continue reading Why people spend millions on an instrument they'll never play.
Same For Certain Art? Old Master Painting Sets Record, And Few People Notice
Continue reading If A Tree Falls In An Empty Forest....
Continue reading This year, everyone's hiring Danish.
Another wonderful e-mail from the Bulgarian translator of "Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong."
Continue reading English, the not-so-universal language.
See Duke Ellington perform "Mood Indigo" in 1952.
Continue reading Just because.
Notes on another multi-modal weekend of culture in the Bay Area
Small, Yes, Because They're On Stamps: The U.S.P.S. Recognizes Some Major Industrial Artists
Continue reading Little Celebrations Of Design.
No word on possible admission fee (or whether members enter free). Two more news organizations score Walton interviews (not CultureGrrl).
Continue reading 3,100 and Counting: Crystal Bridges Museum Plans 24-Hour Members' Day.
Continue reading Breaking news: Blue-blood opera boss dies.
Continue reading I think Lang Lang likes Liszt.
food and culture are inseparable. He died last week at age 86.
Continue reading George Lang Knew Why.
If we think the main function of classical music is uplift, then -- sorry -- it just isn't art anymore.
Continue reading Sports and uplift.
And Jan Swafford provides the new music humor
Continue reading Something Lovely This Way Comes.
Continue reading Anyone know the Mahler version of Happy Birthday?.
Continue reading How to run a National Health Service - in Chinese.
Continue reading News just in: Late Russian maestro to receive grave of honour in Vienna.
Continue reading Coke scandal Royal Ballet says it's business as usual.
In 1942, Edith Ives wrote her father a 1,700-word "Dear Daddy" letter explaining "the full import of the words people use about you, 'a great man.'"
Continue reading The Ives Project.
Opening Of Museum For It On Fifth Ave. Is Postponed To 2013, So Try A Trip To Greenwich
Continue reading African Art Whereabouts.
Reflections on the innovation in meeting spaces, Seats2Meet
Continue reading Arts Orgs: Places 2Meet or Not2Meet?.
Continue reading News just in: death of Margot Fonteyn's discreet lover.
Continue reading Abbado, cautiously, gives himself clean bill of health.
Continue reading Breaking: One side cracks in Brazil orchestra crisis.
Continue reading Mahler for 10 year olds - an inspirational project.
Continue reading Harry Potter - exactly how popular is he?.
To Be Repatriation Hero, He Pays A Dozen Times The Presale Estimate For Four Porcelain Vases
Continue reading Steve Wynn's China Strategy.
BMFA's current European chair will oversee installation of Kimbell's Renzo Piano addition, leaving unfinished Boston's reinstallation. Read Monday's announcement today.
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings epitomize artistic co-dependency. So why do they identify themselves using only one of their names?
Continue reading It Takes Two.
Unbelievable as it sounds, larger American orchestras have no artistic director.
Continue reading No direction home.
Specialist in Japanese contemporary art, with inside track as curator and acting director. Can he impersonate Andy like Sokolowski did?
Continue reading Eric Shiner Named Warhol Museum's Director UPDATED.
Here's a really, really bad mission statement for New York City Opera.
Continue reading A footnote to "Sightings".
Continue reading Who's that directing Gergiev's new opera?.
Continue reading End of a violin dynasty.
An answer is needed--now.
Continue reading Why does New York need a City Opera?.
"Master Class" and Rachel Crothers' "He and She" reviewed.
Continue reading Maria Callas gets the guests.
George Shackelford Is Leaving The MFA in Boston -- It's Back To Texas For Him
Continue reading Scoop! Curatorial Musical Chairs -- UPDATED.
Fisk's courtroom arguments inadvertently suggest how Crystal Bridges could have scotched controversial contract for Stieglitz Collection (which museum "doesn't need").
A few thoughts regarding a San Francisco director's tightly-spun take on Kafka's classic tale
A few thoughts regarding a San Francisco director's tightly-spun take on Kafka's classic tale
A few thoughts regarding a San Francisco director's tightly-spun take on Kafka's classic tale
A few thoughts regarding a San Francisco director's tightly-spun take on Kafka's classic tale
Continue reading Mark Jackson's Metamorphosis.
Orchestra musicians only discuss artistic quality privately, with no communal way of making decisions.
Continue reading Atomized?.
See (and hear) the original laugh-track machine.
Continue reading Voices from the past.
Here's my weekly theater guide.
Continue reading So you want to see a show?.
Is Rachmaninoff the most under-rated of the "major composers"? Not any longer.
Continue reading Rachmaninoff in Texas.
Can NY Times now name a New York-based "chief art critic"? Kimmelman's perceived knowledge gap as architecture arbiter.
Continue reading Michael Kimmelman's Travels: Music to Art to...ARCHITECTURE???.
Why This Excellent Exhibition Is Exactly What The Whitney Should Be Doing More Often
Continue reading Feininger's Moment In The Sun.
Reflections upon watching a bunch of dudes on dirt bikes filming their exploits
Continue reading Narcissistic Sports Films.
Do directors or playwrights instill a piece with meaning? Or is it both? Or neither? And what does psychology and research have to say about that?
Continue reading In Whose Hands Does Meaning Live?.
The League of American Orchestras says there's real trouble brewing. While the Toronto Symphony finds a striking young audience.
Continue reading While we're talking about orchestras....
Continue reading Latest theory: it was life indoors that killed Mozart.
Continue reading Free Russia's political prisoners - a musician speaks out.
Continue reading Two musical losses.
What can be done to support them?
Continue reading Enabling Arts Entrepreneurs.
Yeah, That's An Exaggeration: But This List Probably Does Contain Many Worthy Works You'd Want To Know
Continue reading The Best Art You've Never Seen.
Jazz listeners may be taken with Sibelius's "changes" in the allegro, the final movement of the quartet's five.
Continue reading Those Sibelius Harmonies.
Artist whose scrawled mark-making and rough-hewn, found-object sculptural compositions inspired immersive museum displays. MoMA's and Dulwich's shows.
Continue reading Cy Twombly, the Inscrutable (but haunting) Scrawler, Dies UPDATED.
David Simon, cast & crew bring journalistic research and preference for truth to tv drama
Continue reading David Simon tells it like it is: Urban Realism and Treme.
AAMD basks in rescue of the Rose Museum and collection. Fisk risks losing accreditation. Alumni asking President O'Leary to resign.
'Rain' plays The Beatles outside their theater, but it's silent across the street at 'Master Class'.
Continue reading Friendly reminder: your show is about an opera singer.
Continue reading How ENO did gay sex with kids on stage - Nico Muhly speaks out.
Continue reading Exclusive: London orchestra saved by last-ditch appeal.
We think that classical instrumental music is abstract -- but that's not true! And it's a relatively new idea.
Continue reading Abstract.
Continue reading How gay is your opera?.
Continue reading America's top-selling classical artist is... an 11 year-old child.
Continue reading Come back Ernest Ansermet, all is forgiven.
Are there any recipes you'd like to cook, or like to have cooked, for your dad or mom? A story, with recipes and pictures....
Continue reading I Never Cooked for My Father .
Continue reading The murder of little Tannhäuser.
Now Go Online For More: For Its Cone Sisters Show, The Jewish Museum Shows How
Continue reading Finished Viewing An Exhibition?.
HBO's Treme re New Orleans a breaksthrough in musical drama and U.S. urban analysis
Continue reading Hurray for Treme.
Continue reading Breaking: J K Rowling walks out on her agent (update).
Continue reading An opera disaster unfolding in Prague.
Continue reading Taking Carmen to the Congo to stem the culture of rape.
Continue reading Last prize at the Tchaikovsky competition.
Listen to Harry Reasoner reporting the death of Ernest Hemingway on CBS Radio in 1961.
Continue reading The way we were.
John Philip Sousa introduces and conducts "The Stars and Stripes Forever" in 1931.
Continue reading Salute!.
...see Robert Casadesus play Debussy's "Fireworks."
Continue reading In lieu of the real thing....
Why go see a summer blockbuster when you can make your own?
Continue reading This Is Only a Commercial.
Fourth of July American music: ACO "jazz" readings, Ellington/Gershwin, Mingus . . .
Continue reading Jazz blasts (include symphonic works) for big holiday .
Continue reading Domingo's number - the one he wants to be remembered by.
Continue reading Harpist leads new blast against Dutch government cuts .
The news business has occupied most of my working life. Seeing it change for the worse is more than a matter of professional interest.
Continue reading Other Matters: Journalism Today.
This band recently played a concert near Rifftides world headquarters. It was superb. They're on the radio
Continue reading Pre-July 4th Listening Tip: All-American Music.
Continue reading Iberian and Nordic orchestras sound out in Dutch protest - that makes 10.
Continue reading If it's sound, it's music..
Archaeologist of Morgantina excavations finds strong reasons to praise Getty's True, not bury her. Undisclosed: his involvement in "Aphrodite" saga.
Continue reading Malcolm Bell's Ringing Critique of "Chasing Aphrodite" in the WSJ.
A Collector Of American Flags, Which Before 1912 Decree Could Be Made With Creative Designs
Continue reading Perfect Reading For July 4.
Wanna be PR director at Crystal Bridges Museum? Now you can! First assignment: Put back the artworks on revamped website.
Continue reading Crystal Bridges Museum Update: The Mysterious Disappearing Collection.
Continue reading Bayreuth reveals its list of political freebies.
Just in time for the Fourth of July.
Continue reading Obama Cultivates His Own Parcel of Dogpatch.
Continue reading Top UK music blogs for June 2011.
Continue reading One in five at Bavarian State Opera won't go to Japan.
Continue reading Can the symphony orchestra survive?.
The narrowing focus and trivialization of news in print and broadcast and on the internet is a danger to the country's future
Continue reading Other Matters: Journalism Today.
Continue reading What happens when a music director stays too long.
Continue reading Some disturbing thoughts on the Tchaikovsky results.
