In a shocking development, I went downstairs to get my mail. I was really after the score of the Thomas Ades Piano Quintet, which was mailed to me and which is PFD (translate how you will). But then, another package caught my eye. It was addressed to “Yo Yo Ma,” and below this vaguely familiar […]
Jeremy’s Wild and Wacky Week in San Francisco: A Quiz Question One True or False: The only entity Jeremy made out with all week was a French Bulldog named Noe. Question Two After Wednesday’s performance, yours truly encountered some serious stomach issues which made Thursday not the unbelievably delightful day it might have been. Looking […]
It is incredibly difficult to step from the sacred to the sensual, or vice versa, convincingly. Many composers have stumbled there, at the perceived threshold of transcendence. You might argue the journey sacred-sensual (round-trip super-saver fare) was the project of much of the later 19th century, a project which mostly failed. The most colossal, brilliant […]
It is a stunningly beautiful, clear day in Manhattan and all the healthy people stand around on Broadway in their jogging outfits at 9:42 am, quite smug. I elbow past their toned calves and $300 headphones, humming the Berg Chamber Concerto. In Starbucks a man demonstrates that good jeans and a T-shirt can be the […]
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