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Visuals in the Concert Hall Do visuals shrink or enhance the symphonic experience? Some examples pertaining to Dvorak, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky....
Rise Our youngest, most impressionable pianists need subtle, detailed teaching. We need to involve them with big things that really matter -- that make music something worth a lifetime of attention....
Erasing the Timeline Robert Ashley talks about the drone in American music....
The Colsons, pianist and singer, give it away An AACM pair offer their new CD, free, to their concert attendees...
Another solution How to sell many, many tickets, without doing anything alt-classical, and without media coverage....
Correspondence: About Mike Wofford "He is another of those musicians who have absorbed their influences and grown, and whose talent far exceeds their fame."...
Solutions Starting a new emphasis on classical music change -- not just critiquing the old ways, but showing how people have gone in hopeful new directions....
CDs: Going, Going... You think that CD you've been putting off buying will be around forever? Think again...
New riff from my book More from Rebirth: The Future of Classical Music A riff on the second chapter, about why there really is a classical music crisis.....
Something old under the sun If you've never heard Ann Yao play the zheng, go here and be delighted....
Kindest Cuts Can it be that the outcome of piano concerto competitions depends on which excerpts the jury hears?...
Horowitz on Horowitz on Horowitz on Horowitz Was Vladimir Horowitz merely a brains-in-the-fingers pianist? Badgered by his son, the author recants....
Promise and dreck: when to give that common, disconcerting mix the benefit of the doubt....
The Season in Gannitude I have seven performances coming up soon....
Saxes & percussion, Boulez & symphony -- continuity Further glories of music cross genres in New York City...
Why Memphis Matters to Every American Orchestra As beleaguered orchestras search for ways to adapt to changing conditions, the Memphis Symphony has redefined itself in ways that potentially impact on the entire field....