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MOST RECENT BLOG POSTS
Choosing Wisely If you label your opening night "special," what does that make the rest of the concerts on your season?...
Left behind (2) More on why contemporary classical music -- as defined by the classical music mainstream -- is a generation out of date....
Left behind First of three posts, about why contemporary classical music is a generation out of date, at least as it's featured at mainstream classical music institutions....
Full weekend of typical (splendid) variety Jazzy improv, classic Cage, Armstrong studies, Guadeloupean zouk, live music as usual in NYC...
Last Composer Standing - the retro edition Top picks of 1959...
One of these things is not like the other How do we experience concerts that we're told will be special differently?...
Unsung premiere ... of a forgotten woman composer...
Snapshot This week's video: Vladimir Horowitz plays Scriabin's "Vers la flamme."...
On Making A Good End Starting off on the right foot is important. Going out with a bang maybe more so....
New book riff My book on the future of classical music -- more on what's going to be in it....
Last composer standing - the results Who will still be heard 50 years from now?...
Recent Listening: Kurt Rosenwinkel ...he radiates the air of a man who won't hurry through even his most complex improvisations....
Long overdue The Chicago Symphony -- gasp -- appoints alt-classical composers in residence!...
Just before 8 A few minutes before 8 p.m., my heart beats faster. So many concerts start at this time -- after years in the business my body is trained!...
Performance night of beyond-jazz critics They write but also sing, play, conduct, party -- Burnt Sugar and the late Robt. Palmer tonight in NYC clubs...
Last composer standing - the top three Polling extended by 24 hours...
Recent Listening: Dick Katz (RIP) The news of Katz's death at 85 last week sent me to the shelf for this 1996 recording....
Last composer standing Who will be played 50 years from now?...
Recent Listening: John Hollenbeck He moves into, out of and beyond established categories of musical thinking and brilliantly meets the challenges he sets himself in his writing....
Terrific idea From one of my readers, a great way to get people participating in classical music....
Is it hard to write a blues? Contest deadline tonight Simple rhythm and rhyme scheme wins tix to Jazz at Lincoln Center, dvds...
Recent Listening: Linda Oh Her music, as eclectic as she, eludes classification except as fresh and uncompromising....
Snapshot (in memoriam) This week's video: William Schuman's "When Jesus Wept."...
Monsieur B. Damnation of Faust at the Met, and some thoughts on singing in French....