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Recent Posts:
- Ives, Caught Between Two Caricatures
- You Weren’t Doing Anything This Evening Anyway
- Dull Life, Interesting Omission
- Minimalism Invented in England, It Turns Out
- The Negative Profession
- Name That Tune
- Through the Eyes of the Unencumbered
- Tell Me the Meaning of Minimalist?
- Not Content with Mere Concept
- November Is Bustin’ Out All Over
- When Keys Collide
- Unanticipated Perks of Scholarship
- A Video of Nothing
- An Avant-Gardist Anticipated
- Oops, Too Late
- Earle Brown in Shifting Perspectives
- An Improvising Conductor Gets His Due
- Glass, Potter, Gann in Amsterdam
- Glass as Romantic (1981-Style)
- Ambient Caroling
- Graphing Glass
- The Untold Tale
- It’s a Niche
- Of the Making of Books There Is No End
- Gearing Up for the Minimalists Again
- Gannian Homage to Ives, for Orchestra
- November While It’s Still November
- Everybody’s a Critic
- The Schumann of Postclassicism
- Everybody Gets a 100th Birthday Sometime
- The silence of eternity…
- Misfits in the Corridors of Power
- Scenario at Last
- Bill’s Tunes
- Some Somethings Echo More than Others
- The Elusive Spinet Piano of Lizzy Alcott
- Duckworth Memorial Service
- Partch as Transcendentalist
- A Timely Gesture
- Strange Times: William Duckworth (1943-2012)
- Planets Strike Small College
- Weekend Concerts
- Once Thought Extinct, Genre Resurfaces
- Not Exactly Verbatim
- Oh Yeah, I’m a Composer
- Birthplace of a Sonata
- A Truthful Job Creator
- Backstage Pass to Liturgy
- All the Different Concords
- Back to the Basics
- Music is Fluid Architecture
- Well, He Was a TV Star There
- Cage’s Red Pencil
- Pas mon ami Pierrot
- One Less Critic
- The Line Between A and B
- Strange Bedfellows Department
- Literature as a Mirror
- The New Yorker of My Dreams
- Cageans in Poland
- A Concordian Hail-Mary Pass
- Bendy Pitches
- Interviewee of the Year
- Cage, Cage, and No End in Sight
- Cage’s Rhetorical Sleight-of-Hand
- Have Airfare, Will Lecture
- Centennial of a True Original
- The Progressive Conservative
- Second-Guessing Satie
- From the Morass of My Subconscious
- A Scriabinesque Geometry
- I Suppose It Finally Gets to the Composers
- One of the Truly Outstanding Inconveniences
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- Phil Winsor (1938-2012)
- The Elusive Incriminating Evidence
- The Academic Airfare Reimbursement Scam
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- What a Guy
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- Unnoticed Milestone
- The Blind Alleys of Criticism
- New Horizons in Terminology
- Add Your Name
- The Score So Far
- Correctly Pigeonholed for Once
- Tooting my Own Horn
- The Woman Behind The Greatest Man
- Music Video from the Hearts of Space
- Warp Speed
Recent Comments
Bob Gilmore on Ives, Caught Between Two Caricatures
Agreed. I love Ives 1, terrific piece. But I'd have to say my favourite of all the symphonies is the...M. on Ives, Caught Between Two Caricatures
Mr. Plush has already written, in his first sentence, what I would have liked to. Consider it seconded.Bill B on Ives, Caught Between Two Caricatures
You can hear it without going to it. The concert is streamed live over WQXR, as are all of...Vincent Plush on Ives, Caught Between Two Caricatures
Kyle, you have just reminded us (as if we needed reminding) why we regard you as one of the most...Steven Ledbetter on Minimalism Invented in England, It Turns Out
Sullivan did, indeed, brilliantly solve the problem set him by Gilbert's lyric, but he didn't find it easy. In fact...Paul Schleuse on Minimalism Invented in England, It Turns Out
The additive process is clearly there, but the harmony isn't really static. The alternation between D and D maj7/sus4 is...Gene on Minimalism Invented in England, It Turns Out
"Das Rheingold" opens with six minutes of tonic, not dominant. KG replies: But after six minutes of E-flat the curtain opens...Juhani Nuorvala on Minimalism Invented in England, It Turns Out
The minimalist I'm most reminded of by that Gilbert and Sullivan piece is Tom Johnson. - For additive process, there's...Ian Stewart on Minimalism Invented in England, It Turns Out
For additive precedents there is also the the folk song "Green Grow the Rushes, O". I also believe that the big...Paul A. Epstein on Minimalism Invented in England, It Turns Out
This is one of my very favorite G&S numbers. It's not only gorgeous, but if done right it can...