Ethelbert Nevin, a retired technical draftsman, resides in a quiet New England backwater. Currently translating a novel about Continental pinsetters, Nevin longs for the days when music didn’t try to please everybody.
Ethelbert Nevin
Used Bin Troll Tweets B.
Gilbert’s freshness makes the comparison wonderfully simple.
August 9, 2013
Used Bin Troll Tweets B.
Gilbert’s freshness makes the comparison wonderfully simple.
August 9, 2013
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 1.
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
Composer Rebuses
Rebuses (with hints and solutions)
March 28, 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
Loony for Tunes
If you can sing the tune to “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down,” or if Carl Stalling and Scott Bradley are household names, then this is the book you’ve been waiting for.
December 16, 2005
Loony for Tunes
If you can sing the tune to “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down,” or if Carl Stalling and Scott Bradley are household names, then this is the book you’ve been waiting for.
December 16, 2005