Sidestuff

Slowly I’m adding to the fine print on the right. In the “Resources” section — where I mean to build a list of references for anyone who cares about the state of classical music — I’ve added a heading called “Useful Articles.” It’ll cite newspaper and magazine pieces, and starts with two entries, both of which can help explain unfortunate things we might not like, but need to understand.

Soon I’ll have a section on CDs I’ve been playing, currently a bewildering list, ranging from the new Annie Lennox album to a few dozen classical pieces I’ve had to sample for a project I’m doing with some orchestras. The best of all of them? Leopold Stokowski conducting Wagner, on a recent release from Andante.

And in the “Elsewhere” section under “Sandow,” I snuck in a note about my latest column in the wonderful webzine NewMusicBox. It’s about Bob Dylan, and some arousing dissonances that he gets by more or less ignoring his guitar chords when he plays his harmonica. But I think he likes the sound, and so do I. (There’s a classical connection, just maybe, but why bother about that?) If you want to read other installments of that column — and I hope you will; I have a lot of fun, and explore some of my favorite ideas — you can find many of them here.)