Ethelbert Nevin lives in a provincial part of New England. He is a retired bowling actuary’s assistant and is translating a novel about the rise and fall of the Austrian Navy. He wishes for a time when music was a little less commercial and didn’t try to please everybody all the time.
Ethelbert Nevin
Used Bin Troll Tweets A.
Sparked in part by Record Store Day… Here are notes from recent field trips…
May 6, 2013
Used Bin Troll Tweets A.
Sparked in part by Record Store Day… Here are notes from recent field trips…
May 6, 2013
Tome Tweets
Relive bygone days when Tonkünstlers were schooled in Rhetoric.
September 23, 2009
Top 12 Reasons Why Somebody Broke into a Warehouse and Stole Hundreds of Luigi Nono CDs
Hard to believe, but I’ve read reports of someone breaking into a Viennese storage facility specifically to steal the new col legno SACD recording of Nono’s Prometeo (WWE 2SACD 20605).
November 5, 2007
Top 12 Reasons Why Somebody Broke into a Warehouse and Stole Hundreds of Luigi Nono CDs
Hard to believe, but I’ve read reports of someone breaking into a Viennese storage facility specifically to steal the new col legno SACD recording of Nono’s Prometeo (WWE 2SACD 20605).
November 5, 2007
Touching on This and That
At La Folia’s semi-annual writers’ brunch… I learned that I receive the most mail.
May 31, 2007
Touching on This and That
At La Folia’s semi-annual writers’ brunch… I learned that I receive the most mail.
May 31, 2007
Letter from the Provinces: Countdown and Wrap-up
As Tower went down for the count, I found myself giving them money yet again.
January 1, 2007
Letter from the Provinces: Countdown and Wrap-up
As Tower went down for the count, I found myself giving them money yet again.
January 1, 2007
Holst Seven, Matthews Nil
The last time a living composer’s comments raised hackles (the only time perhaps?), that German gent, the one who’s working at a seven-day opera, uttered some “misconstrued” words about 9/11.
September 27, 2006
Holst Seven, Matthews Nil
The last time a living composer’s comments raised hackles (the only time perhaps?), that German gent, the one who’s working at a seven-day opera, uttered some “misconstrued” words about 9/11.
September 27, 2006
Guilty, Your Honor
Tower Records has filed for bankruptcy again. I feel responsible not just for the collapse of this chain, but for the severe downturn of all brick-and-mortar music sales.
September 2, 2006
Guilty, Your Honor
Tower Records has filed for bankruptcy again. I feel responsible not just for the collapse of this chain, but for the severe downturn of all brick-and-mortar music sales.
September 2, 2006
WAM: Crude and Cosmopolitan
Mozart could write dirty canons. Sure. Whatever.
April 2, 2006