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Kyle Gann on music after the fact

Last Stand

DUBLIN – Henry David Thoreau’s wonderful dictum:

My life has been the poem I would have writ,

But I could not both live and utter it.

will have to be modernized:

My life has been the blog I would have writ,

But I could not both live and update it.

I’ve been living rather than blogging, but I can pause long enough to announce that I will be performing Custer and Sitting Bull – perhaps for the last time ever, if I have anything to say about it – tomorrow night at 8 in the Printing Room at Trinity College in Dublin. Ireland. Along with a couple of other out-of-tune pieces.

Thanks to those who’ve been waiting desperately for audio documentation of my piano concerto Sunken City. I’m still waiting for the same thing, and as soon as I have it, you’ll have it.

Now to go check out Irish sushi. Who knew?

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So classical music is dead, they say. Well, well. This blog will set out to consider that dubious factoid with equanimity, if not downright enthusiasm [More]

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Sites to See

American Mavericks - the Minnesota Public radio program about American music (scripted by Kyle Gann with Tom Voegeli)

Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar - a cornucopia of music, interviews, information by, with, and on hundreds of intriguing composers who are not the Usual Suspects

Iridian Radio - an intelligently mellow new-music station

New Music Box - the premiere site for keeping up with what American composers are doing and thinking

The Rest Is Noise - The fine blog of critic Alex Ross

William Duckworth's Cathedral - the first interactive web composition and home page of a great postminimalist composer

Mikel Rouse's Home Page - the greatest opera composer of my generation

Eve Beglarian's Home Page- great Downtown composer

David Doty's Just Intonation site

Erling Wold's Web Site - a fine San Francisco composer of deceptively simple-seeming music, and a model web site

The Dane Rudhyar Archive - the complete site for the music, poetry, painting, and ideas of a greatly underrated composer who became America's greatest astrologer

Utopian Turtletop, John Shaw's thoughtful blog about new music and other issues

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