"Casting the story as the tragic arc of a mythic individual not only obscures the collective nature of the effort but amounts to an exercise in scapegoating." newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
Tony lived a long, wonderful life, but now we all must live in a world without him. Thank you so much for so very much, Tony, and RIP. nytimes.com/2023/07/21/art…
"There'll be more than a fifth of Beethoven being played at the 40th Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, which kicks off Sunday and runs through Aug. 13." newsday.com/entertainment/…
Wonderful: " Saariaho revealed how much elemental drama remains in the realm of harmony: dissonance becomes a molten mass from which new tonalities are forged." newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
"But then the Enlightenment arrived like a second grade teacher replacing her overwhelmed substitute, and tipped the balance toward sober instruction." Wonderful!
andhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/design/gilder-center-natural-history-museum.html?smid=tw-share
A recording of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra is the newest, and among the latest, additions to the U.S. National Recording Registry: apnews.com/article/madonn…
"...That way of structuring the course really clarified for me where I stood in terms of musical history. I love Stravinsky, Bach, and jazz." Me too
Steve Reich Looks Back on the Musical Revolution He Helped Ignite | San Francisco Classical Voice #new_tab" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sfcv.org/articles/artis…
"He might have concluded that the human world was bizarre, frightening, and insane, but not entirely evil." Requiem for a Great Cat newyorker.com/culture/cultur… via @NewYorker