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If you imagine that I'm relentlessly driving myself to complete my Robert Ashley book before school starts, you would be correct. I'm not quite going to make it, but I'm very close. This week I transferred all of my interviews with Bob to compact discs, and found that they fill up 18 CDs. Someday when someone writes a proper biography of Bob (as opposed to the intro-to-the-life-and-works I'm doing), all this biographical material could come in handy. I can't use half of what I've got.

There are some good stories in the book. My favorite is that when Bob stumbled across the text that would become Perfect Lives, he was trying to write a screenplay for an updated version of The Wizard of Oz.

August 26, 2010 8:16 AM | | Comments (0) |
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....
December 27, 2006 11:13 AM | |
I'm a composer (since I was 13), a music critic (since I was 27), a musicologist (since I was 32), and a music professor (since I was 39)....
October 24, 2003 7:16 PM | | Comments (1) |
Read Kyle Gann's columns from the Village Voice back to September 1998
October 24, 2003 7:15 PM | | Comments (0) |
More than you ever wanted to know about me at www.kylegann.com
October 24, 2003 7:14 PM | |
The radio station that goes with the blog, all postclassical music, all the time; see the playlist at kylegann.com
October 24, 2003 6:19 PM | | Comments (0) |
Click here to send me an email...
October 23, 2003 4:25 PM | | Comments (6) |

Sites To See

Postclassic Radio! - Kyle Gann's internet radio station that accompanies the blog; 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

Just Intonation Network - a meeting place for people interested in alternative tunings

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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Richard Kessler on arts education
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Dalouge Smith advocates for the Arts
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lies like truth
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For immediate release: the arts are marketable
Mind the Gap
No genre is the new genre
Performance Monkey
David Jays on theatre and dance
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Paul Levy measures the Angles
Real Clear Arts
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
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John Rockwell on the arts
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innovations and impediments in not-for-profit arts
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Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
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Tobi Tobias on dance et al...

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ListenGood
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Serious Popcorn
Martha Bayles on Film...

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Fresh ideas on building arts communities
The Future of Classical Music?
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Overflow
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
PianoMorphosis
Bruce Brubaker on all things Piano
PostClassic
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Sandow
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Slipped Disc
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
The Unanswered Question
Joe Horowitz on music

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Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera

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Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off

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Another Bouncing Ball
Regina Hackett takes her Art To Go
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Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
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