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Imitation as Inspired Improve-ization 25 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
As I recall from the 30 seconds I just spent researching it, Plato believed that "art is imitation, and that's bad," and Aristotle believed that "art is imitation, and that's all right, even good." We...
My Favorite Strings 20 Aug 2013 | 10:43 pm
I'm in preparation for what I hope will be an innovative September recital that will combine the traditional - performing composed music for people - and some kind of "twisted traditional" stuff that'...
Hardworking Rhythms 2 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
Last weekend at my daughter's camp, I heard live for the first time Louis Andriessen's Workers Union. It was quite an undertaking for a group of high schoolers more used to playing Mozart, Haydn, Schu...
What a little moonlight can do... 31 Jul 2013 | 07:40 am
Short, simple post here. A twitter acquaintance made note that an internet radio station was mistakenly cutting back and forth between two different recordings; another Twitter acquaintance helpfully ...
My end is my beginning? 29 Jul 2013 | 06:27 am
My devoted readers (parents) might recall that a recent blog post featured a "backwards" version of Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1 in which its phrases are played in reverse order. Fast-forward to an evenin...
Copland's Cummington Clarinet Connection 27 Jul 2013 | 07:06 pm
My daughter's at a music camp out in rural Cummington, MA and, since we just read the chapter on Copland and FDR-era populism in The Rest is Noise in a summer class, I remembered that Copland had writ...
Randomnopédie 12 Jul 2013 | 08:43 pm
Here's a lazy, aimless post for a lazy summer's day. Erik Satie's famous Gymnopédies have a kind of timeless, anti-gravity quality that makes them seem both like they could go on forever and that they...
It Rite As Well Be Spring 30 May 2013 | 06:47 am
But wait, there's more! I thought that previous post was all I had to say about The Rite of Spring on its 100th birthday, but my brain wouldn't stop generating puns and pretty soon "It Rite As Well Be...
It Rite As Well Be Spring 30 May 2013 | 06:47 am
But wait, there's more! I thought that previous post was all I had to say about The Rite of Spring on its 100th birthday, but my brain wouldn't stop generating puns and pretty soon "It Rite As Well Be...
It's Gonna Be All Rite 30 May 2013 | 04:20 am
Today marks the 100th birthday of the work about which I've blogged more than anything else, so it wouldn't be rite not to post something. I have a little something in the works for next week, but her...
