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- Cage’s Rhetorical Sleight-of-Hand
- Have Airfare, Will Lecture
- Centennial of a True Original
- The Progressive Conservative
- Second-Guessing Satie
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- A Scriabinesque Geometry
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- One of the Truly Outstanding Inconveniences
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- Phil Winsor (1938-2012)
- The Elusive Incriminating Evidence
- The Academic Airfare Reimbursement Scam
- Occupying New Music: Guest Blog
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- What a Guy
- In My Lefty Dreams
- The Difficulty of Seeing Music
- Music’s Quasi-Objectivity
- Videos Worth Watching
- I Am Ralph Fiennes
- Wonkish
- Excerpts from Outer Space
- Warning: Self-Obsessed Post
- 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
- Whither Us Minimalists?
- Revisionist History of a Term
- Virtual Ashley Playground
- The So-Called Editing Process
- Concert Etiquette of the Greats
- Meeting of Minds
- Kiss Off, Purists
- Vertiginously Relative
- Upcoming Appearances
- Call Me a Crazy Uncle
- Repeating Myself
- Curious Genealogies
- Forced Conversions
- In Which I Am Poeticized
- Descendants of the Prophets
- Fanfares and Funerals
- Five New (Old) Tunes for Spring
- Students without Sleep
- A Pawn in the Schemes of Young Composers
- The Happier Profession
- Don’t Take It Personally
- Does Greatness Rub Off?
- What Other Minds Look Like
- Minimalism at Bard
- Hearing from Other Minds
- With the Living and the Dead
- Empty Professionalism
- Out-Totalized
- Fucking (Excuse Me) the Tempo
- Slapping Music
- A Sonata with Long Tentacles
- Milton Babbitt (1916-2011)
- How to Talk to String Players
- In Which the Mainstream Notices Us
- The Difference Revealed
- My Life as a Transcendentalist
- Enthralled Them Throughout
- Finally Catching Up to MTV
- Steven Bodner, 1975-2011
- Ha Ha, Made You Read
- Language-Spinners and Image-Cutters
- Space Is the Place
- Gambling Tips for Smart Performers
- Resisting the Narrative
- Doing the Wave Without a Sound
- Chasing My Past with Harpoon and Row Matrix
- Direct Experience Is So Overrated, Apparently
- My Peripheral Consciousness is Tweaked
- Nothing to Say, and Saying It Again
- Taking Away the Mystery
- Surprise – It’s Me!
- November Again, in December
- The Role of the Idea
- Ann Southam, 1937-2010
- Cage in the Mind’s Repertoire
- Prophets Outside their Own Country
- Symphonic Slide
- Reeling from a Masterpiece
- The Aging Professor
- Reputations Never Die
- Start Your Day
- A Serenade Out of Season
- Safe Haven for Us Oddballs
- Thought for the Day

Recent Comments
Aaron Andrew Hunt on Cage’s Rhetorical Sleight-of-Hand
At the risk of sounding glib, I would say it's clear by now that John Cage was wrong at least...AJ Sabatini on Cage’s Rhetorical Sleight-of-Hand
RE: Music - and sound are part of a "discourse" in the sense that any number of sounds, phrases, gestures,...mrG on Cage’s Rhetorical Sleight-of-Hand
I've much enjoyed this essay and will need to read it again, but I thought it perhaps necessary ;) to...Allan J. Cronin on Cage’s Rhetorical Sleight-of-Hand
The first time I reacted strongly to the statement about jazz was whe I heard it spoken by Cage's gentle...Herb Levy on Centennial of a True Original
Looks like a good time. Judging from the title of the paper & the fact that the conference is in...mclaren on Centennial of a True Original
Will the proceedings of this conference be published? Let's hope so.Paul A. Epstein on Centennial of a True Original
Have a great trip, Kyle. When in Gent, if you like mustard, don't miss the shop Yves Tierenteyn-Verlent at...Andrew Meronek on Second-Guessing Satie
Oh, my. That's purrrrrty! That's going to be shared on my Facebook.Anthony Cheung on The Progressive Conservative
I also found this passage (and the novel as a whole) quite enjoyable, and I wonder if McEwan consulted any...Luke Gullickson on The Progressive Conservative
McEwan writes so well about music. I highly recommend Saturday if you haven't read it. This passage is saved on...