Editor Mike Silverton contributed to the print bi-monthly Fanfare first as a columnist and later as a reviewer for about a dozen years before he proposed to Madrigal Audio Laboratories that they sponsor an Internet music review. Thus La Folia. (The sponsorship ended with Madrigal Labs’ demise. La Folia has since operated absent sponsorship or ads.) In addition to having contributed articles to Stereo Review, The Absolute Sound, and most recently, StereoTimes.com, Silverton produced poetry readings for Pacifica Radio (WBAI, KPFA, KPFK), WNYC and the New School for Social Research dogs’ lifetimes ago. His own poetry has appeared in anthologies compiled by the late William Cole, poetry mags, Harper’s and The Nation. More recently Silverton has shown his art at Aarhus Gallery, Belfast, Maine, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. A two-CD set, Analogue Smoque, Pogus 21029-2, features Silverton reading his texts to musical accompaniments by Tom Hamilton and Al Margolis. Silvertonresides with his wife Lee, an artist, in an 1842 town house on the coast of Maine (in which Jefferson Davis spent a night in 1854).
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Salvatore Sciarrino’s Chamber Music on Kairos
I had intended to begin these Kairos comments with a several-disc report on Helmut Lachenmann.
Salvatore Sciarrino’s Chamber Music on Kairos
I had intended to begin these Kairos comments with a several-disc report on Helmut Lachenmann.
In Response to Ian Masters
For a better understanding of these remarks, go… “Flights of High-End Audio Fancy” by Ian G. Masters. The title pretty well indicates on which side of the audio divide Masters stands.
In Response to Ian Masters
For a better understanding of these remarks, go… “Flights of High-End Audio Fancy” by Ian G. Masters. The title pretty well indicates on which side of the audio divide Masters stands.
A Remarkable Event: Morton Feldman’s String Quartet 2
I had to correct a prediction as a just-in-time postscript: the unlikelihood of another recording of Morton Feldman’s Second String Quartet.
A Remarkable Event: Morton Feldman’s String Quartet 2
I had to correct a prediction as a just-in-time postscript: the unlikelihood of another recording of Morton Feldman’s Second String Quartet.
It Never Ends: Twilight Reflections on the Compact Disc
The question remains, why the perceived need to apply an automotive refurbishing agent — or anything — to one’s compact discs?
It Never Ends: Twilight Reflections on the Compact Disc
The question remains, why the perceived need to apply an automotive refurbishing agent — or anything — to one’s compact discs?
La Folia’s New Look
If you’ve visited La Folia before, perhaps you’ve noticed a new look.
La Folia’s New Look
If you’ve visited La Folia before, perhaps you’ve noticed a new look.
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.
Why Classical Sound is Better These Days
In issue 136 of The Absolute Sound, Robert Harley tackles a topic that has fascinated me for years. Harley contends that classical recording has become better of late for a curiously ironic reason.
Why Classical Sound is Better These Days
In issue 136 of The Absolute Sound, Robert Harley tackles a topic that has fascinated me for years. Harley contends that classical recording has become better of late for a curiously ironic reason.
Among The Year’s So Far Best
Like everyone in New York, I reacted to the September 11th terror attacks with fear and loathing, destructive emotions slowly devolving to a burn-out expressing itself for our purpose as an inability to engage with discs I’d been sent for review.
Among The Year’s So Far Best
Like everyone in New York, I reacted to the September 11th terror attacks with fear and loathing, destructive emotions slowly devolving to a burn-out expressing itself for our purpose as an inability to engage with discs I’d been sent for review.
The Year’s So Far Best
Mike Silverton [August 2001. Originally appeared in La Folia 3:4.] Heinz HOLLIGER: Schneewittchen (Snow White), opera in five scenes, with prologue and epilogue. Libretto adapted by Heinz Holliger from Robert Walser’s play Schneewittchen. Juliane Banse, soprano, Snow White; Cornelia Kallisch,
The Year’s So Far Best
Mike Silverton [August 2001. Originally appeared in La Folia 3:4.] Heinz HOLLIGER: Schneewittchen (Snow White), opera in five scenes, with prologue and epilogue. Libretto adapted by Heinz Holliger from Robert Walser’s play Schneewittchen. Juliane Banse, soprano, Snow White; Cornelia Kallisch,
Songs Without Words
Thoughts on what we hear when we listen to music.
Among the Year’s Best, So Far
Mike Silverton [April 2001. Originally appeared in La Folia 3:3.] Gabriel Valverde: LUMINAR. Mode 94 [KOCH International, US distributor] On those rare occasions, all the more invaluable for being rare, one knows at the outset that he’s on to something
Among the Year’s Best, So Far
Mike Silverton [April 2001. Originally appeared in La Folia 3:3.] Gabriel Valverde: LUMINAR. Mode 94 [KOCH International, US distributor] On those rare occasions, all the more invaluable for being rare, one knows at the outset that he’s on to something
Mulieres Triumphantes
Mode features two outstanding women composers.