One of the more anti-American parts of the country:
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
One of the more anti-American parts of the country:
Just as Harry Partch called himself a "philosophic music man seduced into carpentry," I'm a composer seduced into musicology... Read More…
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]
Kyle Gann's Home Page More than you ever wanted to know about me at www.kylegann.com
PostClassic Radio The radio station that goes with the blog, all postclassical music, all the time; see the playlist at kylegann.com.
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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I hear from fair and balanced sources that Dutchess County is part of ‘fake america’. Who knew?
KG replies: And while Dutchess county went for Bush in 2004, Columbia County, where I live and even more rural, went for Kerry.
I’m looking at that and thinking…. how is he gonna rake up all the leaves?
Here in SoCal, everything is brown, combustible and mostly dead.
No yardwork for me!
KG replies: I have a consistent philosophy toward yard work and home maintenance in general. In the amount of time it would take me to fix a gutter, or mow a lawn, or paint a deck, I could write an article that will bring in enough money to pay someone else to do said job. They’ll do it better, and I’ll have another article published.
Nice photo… makes me really miss having a yard :\