Articles by Year: La Folia, 2002.
Why Must Audiophiles Be So Predictable?
Shibboleth in its figurative sense encapsulates an aspect of human nature near to universal.
Why Must Audiophiles Be So Predictable?
Shibboleth in its figurative sense encapsulates an aspect of human nature near to universal.
Recordings Alone: Part III, Cage Done Right and Cage Done In
… [a] two-CD set celebrating John Cage enters the category of recordings alone through the intermediation of its producer, Gary Davis, who enables us to listen to the 23 works on the discs as random sequences of arbitrary fragments of the works.
Recordings Alone: Part III, Cage Done Right and Cage Done In
… [a] two-CD set celebrating John Cage enters the category of recordings alone through the intermediation of its producer, Gary Davis, who enables us to listen to the 23 works on the discs as random sequences of arbitrary fragments of the works.
Dear La Folia 7.
Until a few months ago, I hardly knew the music of Sibelius.
A Log for End of Summer
After the Fringe Festival in August I barely touched the piano.
A Log for End of Summer
After the Fringe Festival in August I barely touched the piano.
Fifteen Poems about Composers
“My most influential teacher? The Statue of Liberty.”
Fifteen Poems about Composers
“My most influential teacher? The Statue of Liberty.”
An Assorted Ramble
I had never heard of Swiss composer Hermann Meier before this disc, and now I am eager for more.
An Assorted Ramble
I had never heard of Swiss composer Hermann Meier before this disc, and now I am eager for more.
Cuz Horses Don’t Sing
I’m a field-recordings man, and a rocker, and I also love old-timey, bluegrass, roots reggae, skronk and punk-jazz.
Cuz Horses Don’t Sing
I’m a field-recordings man, and a rocker, and I also love old-timey, bluegrass, roots reggae, skronk and punk-jazz.
A Look at Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C Minor (Part II)
Sweetness gives way to untamed power. Harmony, not melody, is the focus, presented in driving scales.
A Look at Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C Minor (Part II)
Sweetness gives way to untamed power. Harmony, not melody, is the focus, presented in driving scales.
An Eclectic Piano Ramble
This handful of discs features the piano in all sorts of forms and genres. We examine works intended to be played at the keyboard and inside the piano, others that alter the piano’s tuning, and those that require a synthesized instrument.
An Eclectic Piano Ramble
This handful of discs features the piano in all sorts of forms and genres. We examine works intended to be played at the keyboard and inside the piano, others that alter the piano’s tuning, and those that require a synthesized instrument.
A Look at Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C Minor (Part I)
The eight-measure theme is in 3/4 time, strong in meter, in spine, in sound — chords and melody walk chromatically away from C minor, reach a climactic sforzando on IV (F minor), then quickly run home again.
A Look at Beethoven’s 32 Variations in C Minor (Part I)
The eight-measure theme is in 3/4 time, strong in meter, in spine, in sound — chords and melody walk chromatically away from C minor, reach a climactic sforzando on IV (F minor), then quickly run home again.
Playing In Tongues: New And Improvised Music
Speaking recently with a gentleman in Carnegie Hall who was researching what folks get out of hearing music performed live, I began to think a lot about the various methods by which, and reasons why, we listen.
Playing In Tongues: New And Improvised Music
Speaking recently with a gentleman in Carnegie Hall who was researching what folks get out of hearing music performed live, I began to think a lot about the various methods by which, and reasons why, we listen.
Walt’s Ratatouille 6.
Utrecht’s Rosa Ensemble is another of the category-crossing bands that renders the New Music scene in Holland so vital.
Walt’s Ratatouille 6.
Utrecht’s Rosa Ensemble is another of the category-crossing bands that renders the New Music scene in Holland so vital.