(I’ll be playing an organ recital next Sunday, March 5th at 4:00p.m. at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. In another bit of shameless PR for…
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The land was parched, its people too. The rivers that had raged through the Nation’s once-wild Southwestern desert shrank in their canyons. Vast man-made lakes shriveled to puddles behind massive dams, cathedrals of leisure, irrigation…
Records are made to be broken. Especially if the record is one you never want to hear again. It used to be great fun every so often to snap a vinyl LP that you loathed. …
I’ll be back in Indiana a month from now to play an organ recital devoted entirely to Handel’s music. The performance will be Sunday, March 5, at 4pm in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at…
A lifelong amateur violinist, Albert Einstein was an avid chamber musician. He would hardly have endeared himself to his fellow players if, when straying from the agreed-upon tempo or missing an entrance, he had tried…
After clubs and concert halls shut down in March of 2020, the enterprising and exuberant pianist Emmet Cohen invited the cameras and microphones into his Harlem apartment for weekly Monday night jam sessions that brought—and…
The first musical technology I remember operating, from the age of five, was an Estey upright piano. The second was a stereo, the make of which I’ve forgotten, if I ever knew it. My father…
At least since homo sapiens first howled at the moon, music has been the best medium for baring the soul. The tight-trousered, atavistic power-chording of cock rock likely has more in common with the proto-musical…
From now on when you google the phrase “lip service” you should by rights be taken directly to the video of the members of Iranian national soccer team making the least possible show of singing…