Your MoM
Last Wednesday, February 28, I had the pleasure of seeing two superb up-and-coming chamber ensembles on a double bill at…
Three-way PR/Marketing Convergence
Yesterday I got an e-mail from a PR person at The Rebel Media Group. One of her clients, John Wesley…
Downbeat Ready?
If you’ve been following the stimulus bill, you probably know two things: It includes $50 million for the NEA, and on…
Minimalist Standup
Check out this video from the 2008 Comedy Festival Gala in Melbourne. Make sure you watch all the way to…
Reattached, for a limited time only
Corey Dargel’s remarkable “theatrical song cycle” Removable Parts is being reprised at the HERE Arts Center. The run started yesterday…
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Orff
Interesting piece by Martin Kettle in Friday’s Guardian, but one very strange line: “The musical establishment may continue to agonise…
A Visit From J.S. Bach (Repost)
I first wrote and posted this two years ago, but maybe it will lighten the mood as everybody in the…
Checking Up on MOM
Such is my devotion to you, dear reader, that last Wednesday in spite of a bad cold I went to…
Some Technical Aspects of Translocation: George Brecht (1926-2008)
Composer, artist, Fluxus member, Scratch Orchestra member, John Cage associate, and chemist George Brecht died in a nursing home in…
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Those of you who were at the first Sequenza21 concert two years ago may remember that pianist Hugh Sung played…