As a boy, Joaquin always awoke with the dawn, and it seemed to him, morning after silent morning, that he woke precisely at dawn’s center, at the unknowable fulcrum of a giant quake of light. In those few free minutes before the pastor came to gather him up, smelling of incense and aftershave, before these […]
Yes, I was kindly asked to write an article for NewMusicBox and I wrote this. I’m not sure what came over me. If I disappear mysteriously in the next few days, advise the police to begin their investigation with (living) composers.
I’m sorry, I tried to restrain myself from this post, but it was not possible. I was just meandering around the internet, minding my own business, innocently, when I ran–smack! whap!–into this beginning of a review: [AMERICAN CITY] — Classical music has grown increasingly serious over the years, as it seeks to counter charges of […]
The Goldberg Variations are (intake of breath, flip of hair, reluctant uprise of gesturing arm) … is there any way out of this? … the Goldberg Variations are … wait, hold on a moment, we needn’t bother to say, it transcends saying, it’s effing ineffable! and don’t you know that in place of speech we […]
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