“Classical Music Is Dead”…is dead.
The fat lady has sung. For the fat lady. She sang about other fat ladies. After a long and fruitful history, the cheap journalistic trope “Classical Music is Dead” died today. Nobody knows its exact…
“Only the note with something essential to say is entitled to exist”
In a 1983 interview with The Paris Review, Milan Kundera hits at the essence of Janacek: His determination to strip music to its essentials was revolutionary. Of course, every musical composition involves a great deal…
Memorial Day 2011: Live-blogging 24 Hour DCH Voucher
For my birthday, Dan got me a 24-hour ticket to the Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall. Good thing, since all our Memorial Day plans have been cancelled/postponed due to rain, and thunder got me out…
Music Haven
Since many of you are seeing this blog for the first time today, here’s the big news: in August 2010 I joined Music Haven as Resident Cellist. Music Haven is inherently hard to explain because…
Grit Makes the Man
Jonah Lehrer has an excellent post about a recent paper’s exploration of the nature of success and how it relates to talent in the National Spelling Bee. From Duckworth, et al: Our major findings in…