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Mostly Frenchmen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, forever young I am so lucky that I made it to Lincoln Center in New York City this week for the big summer music festival, when Mostly Mozart Festival is admittedly mostly...
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The roots of sustainability
Géricault 's painting The Raft of the Medusa has a documentary realism, showing hope and despair, man at the mercy of nature. This is a continuation of my previous post, inspired by Hurricane Irene and...
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Unfinished Sympathy
In the Tuesday gatherings of Mallarmé and his followers, poems, plays, or songs might be performed to an appreciative audience. Nobody minded if the work being auditioned was unfinished. A glimpse of...
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Radical Cycle
Sageev Oore at the piano When you think about it, the notion of a “radical cycle” is a bit of an oxymoron. Cycles are usually understood to be stable and repeating, which is hard to imagine if...
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Love’s Dark Shore
How apt that in the week of Valentine’s Day, between performances of Tristan und Isolde, a paean to love, that the Canadian Opera Company should present a concert program titled “Love’s Dark Shore” in...
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Wallis Giunta Sins
When is a recital not a recital? Perhaps when its materials and its assembly begin to outgrow that narrow definition, to resemble something bigger and more exciting; so it would seem on the basis of...
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Post
When i go to write a new piece here on the blog, i follow the tab to “new post”. We were promised a paperless office, a paperless world long ago, but it never happened. It’s funny to keep bumping...
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Great and Big
Franz Schubert wrote two symphonies in C Major. Indeed he wrote two in D major and two in B-flat major as well. The two C Major symphonies are sometimes distinguished by size. One is called “the little...
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