In Europe they celebrate, in America we mourn. Commentator John Rockwell remarks a national tendency to promote cultural achievements in less-than-cheerful circumstances, whether after a critic’s divorce from its journal, or worse, after a musician’s divorce from… life. In this instance, John considers octogenarian music critic Alan Rich’s recent separation from The Village Voice and […]
On Wednesday evening, composer Frederic Rzewski will join me in the studio. On Thursday (May Day) his music is being performed in Carnegie Hall and on Friday it’s heard at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Many of Rzewski’s works are inspired by secular and socio-historical themes, and feature improvisational elements. One of his best-known works is “The […]
As I program Weekend Evening Music my musical choices are guided by the functions that weekend listening might serve for you, which, I imagine, vary from night to night, and on any given night. And some of the functions are contradictory: on Fridays some of you want to wind down from your work week; others […]
Recently a blogger suggested that Evening Music allow for more music that is driven by melody as opposed to persistent rhythms. What do you feel is most important to your enjoyment of music, melody or rhythm?
— Terrance
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Satyagraha
Go see it! Or such is the subtext, sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit, of commentator John Rockwell’s review of Philip Glass’s 1980 masterpiece, the opera Satyagraha, which has come to the Met in an exciting, puppet-filled production. The opera is based on the early travels in South Africa of Mahatma Ghandi and the formation of his […]
I just got back from a visit to The Museum of Modern Art, where, as a museum member, I got to see a preview of a roomful of changing color by Olafur Eliasson (you may coincidentally see an ad for the show on the right-hand side of this page).
As beautiful as the colors are […]
Saturday night I went to the Met Museum to hear a concert, instead I heard two. Singer/Songwriter Josh Ritter opened the show and violinist Hillary Hahn served up the second half. The museum was clearly Hillary’s home turf, and visitor Josh Ritter sang his tunes to his own guitar accompaniment. After intermission Hillary […]