Steve’s click picks #1
Jerry was nice enough to ask if I’d maybe post here once a week, each time sharing a few links…
What Makes Your Bigmouth So Large?
The Elastic Arts Room (formerly Project One), whose artistic and managing director is S21 home Christopher Zimmermann, is teaming up with the super cool…
Happy Birthday, Steve
Steve Reich turns 70 today. There will be the usual superlatives–greatest living composer, most important musical thinker, and other fun, but…
Family Bidness
Elodie Lauten is performing and presenting her piano and chamber music on Tuesday, October 3 – 8 PM at Faust Harrison Pianos,…
Letter from Boston: Ghosts, yearning, time, the sea, and the Globe
From H.H. Stuckenschmidt, “Arnold Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work,” translated by Humphrey Searle (New York: Schirmer Books, 1977): ”…
An Orchestra Blooms in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra announced the schedule yesterday for its usual four concerts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and there’s great news…
Malcolm Arnold, 84
Malcolm Arnold died over the weekend. He was a deeply troubled man who had a remarkably productive life against the odds. He was,…
What to Wear is Boffo in La La Land
Mark Swed, who is (perhaps wisely) ignoring our attempts to stir up trouble over his incoherent Jefferson Friedman review last…
Loose Ends
Alex Ross has a moving tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in this week’s New Yorker. “She was the most remarkable…
Last Night in L.A.: Gloria Cheng and friends
Gloria Cheng opened the season of serious music-listening in her position as opener of the Piano Spheres series of concerts. The program…