We have a terrific new blog to unveil this morning.  It’s called From the Faraway Nearby: An American Composer in Latvia and is written by Charles Griffin, a native New Yorker who is now living in Liepaja, a small industrial city in the western region of Latvia, on the Baltic Sea.  Fascinating insights into a musical world that is far different from the one most of us know.

Elsewhere, the classical pretentiousness thread goes on forever on the Composers Forum page.  Leonard Slatkin weighs in with some new fodder over at Drew McManus’ Adaptistration, which is where the conversation began.

Did I mentioned that Steve Reich is Composer of the Month in the S21 shop?