You Must Hear This: A Human-Ape Hybrid & Drowning Witches
Two very different recordings came out this week that I highly recommend. I previously wrote about both of them for The Music Issue of the very cool lit-quarterly The Aviary. More of my summer music...
View ArticleHappy 100th, Witold Lutosławski!
“Composers are messengers from an ideal world.” -Witold Lutosławski 2013 is a big anniversary year for classical music. It’s the bicentennials of Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813) and Giuseppe Verdi...
View Article11 Conductors Who Are Doing Something Else While Conducting
1. Herbert von Karajan grumpily churning the butter. 2. Valery Gergiev mostly likely suffering from food poisoning. 3a. Gustavo Dudamel suddenly noticing there’s a scorpion on his hand. 3b. Gustavo...
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