Louis Langrée (Chris Lee)
This year’s Mostly Mozart Festival is themed “Loss and Transfiguration.” The festival opens with Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 and the “Song of the Earth” by Mahler. I’ll be at Lincoln Center Wednesday to co-host our live broadcast of the opening night’s program. Join me at 7pm for some pre-concert interviews and music.
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photo by Anne Garland
I’ve been thinking about journeys. Provoked in part by the possibility of summer travels, these thoughts were mainly inspired by the many kinds of journeys music offers: direct, meandering, familiar, unexpected, and so much more.
And I realized there are many ways to answer the questions “where have you been?” and “where do […]
The Mostly Mozart Festival gets underway next week at Lincoln Center. During the past two years, the Festival has had a composer in residence; last year it was Osvaldo Golijov, this year it’s Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Both Michael Tilson Thomas and Osvaldo Golijov recently said that the music world is ready for our generation’s […]
You’ll hear me on WNYC-FM only on Saturday night this weekend. On Friday I hosted a live webcast of a Celebrate Brooklyn!/Wordless Music concert in Prospect Park.
Deerhoof’s Satomi Matsuzaki
The performers were The Metropolis Ensemble playing The Rite Remixed (a take on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring), and the startling, rollicking band Deerhoof (it was a blast!). […]
For centuries human beings have used music to enhance certain activities; Thus work songs, drinking songs, dance tunes. Psychologists are still debating whether or not it’s cheating when athletes compete with the aid of “performance enhancing music”.
Every now and again something you hear during Evening Music is the perfect compliment to […]
A moment in July, 2001. A snapshot of some brilliant people about to enjoy lunch. Most of them could be called science fiction writers, though all enhance and expand the genre with their originality. Left to right: John Clute, Jonathan Lethem, John Crowley, Elizabeth Hand, Tom Disch, and film producer Julia Rosenberg, Lethem’s wife at […]
I spent July 4th in Rhode Island. It’s the smallest of the fifty States and is where the first blood was shed during the American Revolution. Being there got me thinking about the music of that time and the music that is currently associated with America’s independence.
There’s a debate going on in our […]