· The perfect Father’s Day gift? A flowchart! With Phish!
Do dads really have an influence on the musical tastes of their offspring? This amusing flowchart, created for Father’s Day in honor of dads who rock, predicts the kind of music you prefer by the tunes...
View Article· Event: WILCO’s Solid Sound in the Berkshires, 24-26 June 2011.
At the heart of Solid Sound is a sense of collaboration, where a band can join forces with a museum, a comedian can perform against a backdrop of boundary-pushing works of art, and festival attendees...
View Article· Being authentically in the world of Baroque opera.
BEMF seeks to recreate how operas would have been staged at the time of their original performances, not just how they would have been sung and played.
View Article• Low-fi Lomax: the other America’s music man.
During the 1930s and '40s, Alan Lomax and his father John Lomax traveled throughout the American South searching for the work songs, spirituals and folk tales that gave the region it's unique identity.
View Article• Hildegard of Bingen: nobody’s singing nun.
The real Hildegard, however, was of course a hardcore medieval Catholic: among many other things, a defender of hierarchy in Church and society and a hammerer of heretics whose visions were in essence...
View Article• Event: ’3 Carsons out of Texas’ at the Gershwin Hotel, New York, 20 October...
Click image to enlarge. [Announcement from The Gershwin Hotel and Suzanne Tremblay] – “3 Carsons out of Texas” – L.M.Kit Carson, film pioneer; Rev Goat Carson, Grammy-winning lyricist; and Neke...
View Article• Thus Rihanna does not sing in your valley nor for your village.
Popular culture was always local, and changed imperceptibly from one village or valley to the next. High culture, on the other hand, always had a certain universality to it, and thus the dissemination...
View ArticleStory of a song.
Anthony Howell: I hugely appreciate the way Marianne Faithfull has re-invented herself, a process that began with 'Broken English'. This album is a milestone in UK music history. Every track is a...
View ArticleWatching ‘Einstein on the Beach’ through a periscope.
Anthony Howell: Backwards clocks and crazed compasses dangle before our eyes, and I notice that everyone in the cast is wearing a watch. Time is Wilson’s essential subject. Things happen at different...
View ArticleWho is Bruce Springsteen?
Peter Knobler: 'Senator and former presidential candidate John Kerry says, “There’s an authenticity about Bruce that’s just incontrovertible…I think it’s because he’s so true to who he is, and people...
View Article‘Tallys’ and the postmodern sublime.
Nigel Wheale: 'How much did any of the rapt audience [at the Cloisters] know of the debates over the origin of 'Spem in alium', or its place in the development of European polyphony, of the vexed...
View ArticleThe funeral of Isaac Albéniz.
James Gallant: 'Along the way Catalan flags flew at half-mast. Albéniz noted with pleasure black crepe decorating the façade of a Catholic newspaper that had once condemned flamenco influences in his...
View ArticleThe listening body.
Jona Xhepa: 'The place of listening seems significant: an art gallery in the city centre on a Sunday afternoon. As if the audience is poised for assessment through listening in the mutual scrutiny...
View ArticleBack in the building.
Ian Seed: 'Things went downhill for Elvis with tragic momentum after 1974. I have to admit that for a few years I didn’t listen much to his music anymore. I couldn’t tie in my discovery of poets such...
View Article• Hildegard of Bingen: nobody’s singing nun.
The real Hildegard, however, was of course a hardcore medieval Catholic: among many other things, a defender of hierarchy in Church and society and a hammerer of heretics whose visions were in essence...
View Article• Event: ‘3 Carsons out of Texas’ at the Gershwin Hotel, New York, 20 October...
[Announcement from The Gershwin Hotel and Suzanne Tremblay] – “3 Carsons out of Texas” – L.M.Kit Carson, film pioneer; Rev Goat Carson, Grammy-winning lyricist; and Neke Carson, a multimedia artist –...
View Article• Thus Rihanna does not sing in your valley nor for your village.
Popular culture was always local, and changed imperceptibly from one village or valley to the next. High culture, on the other hand, always had a certain universality to it, and thus the dissemination...
View ArticleStory of a song.
Anthony Howell: I hugely appreciate the way Marianne Faithfull has re-invented herself, a process that began with 'Broken English'. This album is a milestone in UK music history. Every track is a...
View ArticleWatching ‘Einstein on the Beach’ through a periscope.
Anthony Howell: Backwards clocks and crazed compasses dangle before our eyes, and I notice that everyone in the cast is wearing a watch. Time is Wilson’s essential subject. Things happen at different...
View ArticleWho is Bruce Springsteen?
Peter Knobler: 'Senator and former presidential candidate John Kerry says, “There’s an authenticity about Bruce that’s just incontrovertible…I think it’s because he’s so true to who he is, and people...
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