Score: Charles Theodore Pachelbel's fragmentary life.
Boston Globe, November 18, 2016.
Showing posts with label Globe Articles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Globe Articles. Show all posts
November 19, 2016
November 15, 2016
Steel and bronze
Catching up on weekend links:
Score: the exacting world of piano wire.
Boston Globe, November 11, 2016.
(In advance of Eli Keszler's performance this Friday in connection with his installation Northern Stair Projection.)
Reviewing the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle.
Boston Globe, November 12, 2016.
Also: I've been forgetting to link to this, but you can now read an article I wrote for Symphony magazine on titling trends in new orchestral works.
Score: the exacting world of piano wire.
Boston Globe, November 11, 2016.
(In advance of Eli Keszler's performance this Friday in connection with his installation Northern Stair Projection.)
Reviewing the Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle.
Boston Globe, November 12, 2016.
Also: I've been forgetting to link to this, but you can now read an article I wrote for Symphony magazine on titling trends in new orchestral works.
November 07, 2016
Better get ready for a brand new day
I'm totally behind on links, so let's catch up:
Score: William Merritt Chase—an American Impressionist and his instruments.
Boston Globe, October 21, 2016.
Score: Rosemary Brown and her famous (dead) collaborators.
Boston Globe, October 29, 2016.
Score: Ray Conniff and Billy May at 100.
Boston Globe, November 4, 2016.
In defense of my tardiness, I can claim a) a crush of work, b) a three-year-old who demanded a custom-tailored Cinderella dress for Halloween (which meant a week's battle with the sewing machine), and c) um, well, this:
My more-often-than-not forlorn fandom has been commemorated in this space at assorted past moments of temporary buoyancy, so it is not a surprise that my productivity has been utterly subverted for some weeks now. (I played "Go Cubs Go" as an organ postlude this past Sunday and I don't think there was a soul in the congregation who had a clue what it was, which somehow made it even more fun.)
Still: slacking. So, to make it up to you, I made you a drink:
Score: William Merritt Chase—an American Impressionist and his instruments.
Boston Globe, October 21, 2016.
Score: Rosemary Brown and her famous (dead) collaborators.
Boston Globe, October 29, 2016.
Score: Ray Conniff and Billy May at 100.
Boston Globe, November 4, 2016.
In defense of my tardiness, I can claim a) a crush of work, b) a three-year-old who demanded a custom-tailored Cinderella dress for Halloween (which meant a week's battle with the sewing machine), and c) um, well, this:
My more-often-than-not forlorn fandom has been commemorated in this space at assorted past moments of temporary buoyancy, so it is not a surprise that my productivity has been utterly subverted for some weeks now. (I played "Go Cubs Go" as an organ postlude this past Sunday and I don't think there was a soul in the congregation who had a clue what it was, which somehow made it even more fun.)
Still: slacking. So, to make it up to you, I made you a drink:
Clock WatcherTomorrow (Tuesday) is election day here in the U.S. Go vote! And remember the words of that most optimistic of radicals, Jean Jaurès:
½ oz Bénédictine
½ oz lemon juice
½ oz lime juice
2-3 oz Canadian Club (or any rye-heavy whiskey; amount based on just how much time we're trying to skip over here)
a healthy 4-5 dashes of Peychaud's bitters
Shake everything up with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with an orange twist.
All of us forget that before everything else, we are... ephemeral beings lost in the immense universe, so full of terrors. We are inclined to neglect the search for the real meaning of life, to ignore the real goals—serenity of the spirit and sublimity of the heart ... To reach them—that is the revolution.
October 15, 2016
Electricity so fine
Score: Tristan Murail's Vampyr!, deep inside distortion
Boston Globe, October 14, 2016.
Boston Globe, October 14, 2016.
October 11, 2016
October 07, 2016
Der vollkommene Capellmeister
Score: On Huillet and Straub's Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach.
Boston Globe, October 7, 2016.
Screening next Friday (10/14).
Boston Globe, October 7, 2016.
Screening next Friday (10/14).
September 30, 2016
September 26, 2016
Libera me
Score: Leonce de Saint-Martin and the liberation of Paris.
Boston Globe, September 26, 2016.
Boston Globe, September 26, 2016.
September 20, 2016
Now and later
Reviewing Dinosaur Annex.
Boston Globe, September 20, 2016.
Once again reviewing for the Globe, at least for the time being—with a concert that, it turned out, was all about the time being.
Boston Globe, September 20, 2016.
Once again reviewing for the Globe, at least for the time being—with a concert that, it turned out, was all about the time being.
September 19, 2016
August 05, 2016
148, 149, 150
Recent Score columns:
July 22, 2016: Remembering Justin Holland
A sketch of the guitarist, pedagogue, and activist (and birthday buddy).
July 29, 2016: George Butterworth, composer and casualty
Killed a century ago today, leaving a catalogue small, singular, and intense.
August 5, 2016: Beethoven's op. 11 (and Joseph Weigl)
And, for the 150th of these efforts, a look at the milieu of what is still (perversely, I know) my favorite Beethoven piece.
July 22, 2016: Remembering Justin Holland
A sketch of the guitarist, pedagogue, and activist (and birthday buddy).
July 29, 2016: George Butterworth, composer and casualty
Killed a century ago today, leaving a catalogue small, singular, and intense.
August 5, 2016: Beethoven's op. 11 (and Joseph Weigl)
And, for the 150th of these efforts, a look at the milieu of what is still (perversely, I know) my favorite Beethoven piece.
June 04, 2016
This I know
It seems that this space is destined to be updated only in transit. The last post (five months ago?! yikes) was written in the midst of a change of abode, and now we are preparing to move Soho the Dog HQ yet again. It's like our own Year of the Three Kings, except, instead of monarchs, it's places to live. Which means we're about to start living in the residential equivalent of... Richard III? I think that analogy ran off the rails somewhere.
At any rate: as proof that I have not been completely idle, the list of Score columns over on the sidebar there has been finally brought up to date. That's 141 installments (and counting) of oblique musicological speculation for your summer reading entertainment. I should also link to this article that Molly coaxed out of me for NewMusicBox, which ended up with a pleasant amount of break on its curve, I thought. Plus, there was this Messiaen introduction for Red Bull Music Academy Daily, which led me down the garden path of echoes between Messiaen's idiosyncratic theology and that of the Flemish mystic Jan van Ruusbroec.
Oh, yeah, and this went down, which at least resulted in some flattering sympathies from smart and nice people—thank you! Like I've said before: I have a knack for getting into careers in their categorical twilight. On the other hand, it does leave more time for composing:
Guerrieri: Shining Throne (Prelude on "Jesus Loves Me") (2016) (PDF, 48 Kb)
And a low-fidelity phone recording:
The registration is only a suggestion, i.e., what happens to work on my particular church organ. (I am, now and forever, a sucker for a good—or even not-so-good—celeste stop.)
And with that, it's northern-hemisphere summer. Whatever critical scrapes I manage to get myself into will be duly noted here. Or not—I picked up some Apuleius for a dollar at a library sale today, and, I have to say, it's a better-looking prospect than a lot else that's going on out there. But Apuleius probably always is.
At any rate: as proof that I have not been completely idle, the list of Score columns over on the sidebar there has been finally brought up to date. That's 141 installments (and counting) of oblique musicological speculation for your summer reading entertainment. I should also link to this article that Molly coaxed out of me for NewMusicBox, which ended up with a pleasant amount of break on its curve, I thought. Plus, there was this Messiaen introduction for Red Bull Music Academy Daily, which led me down the garden path of echoes between Messiaen's idiosyncratic theology and that of the Flemish mystic Jan van Ruusbroec.
Oh, yeah, and this went down, which at least resulted in some flattering sympathies from smart and nice people—thank you! Like I've said before: I have a knack for getting into careers in their categorical twilight. On the other hand, it does leave more time for composing:
Guerrieri: Shining Throne (Prelude on "Jesus Loves Me") (2016) (PDF, 48 Kb)
And a low-fidelity phone recording:
The registration is only a suggestion, i.e., what happens to work on my particular church organ. (I am, now and forever, a sucker for a good—or even not-so-good—celeste stop.)
And with that, it's northern-hemisphere summer. Whatever critical scrapes I manage to get myself into will be duly noted here. Or not—I picked up some Apuleius for a dollar at a library sale today, and, I have to say, it's a better-looking prospect than a lot else that's going on out there. But Apuleius probably always is.
July 01, 2015
June 29, 2015
Met the gazes, observed the spaces
Reviewing "Song Cycle" at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Boston Globe, June 29, 2015.
Boston Globe, June 29, 2015.
June 19, 2015
June 17, 2015
June 01, 2015
May 25, 2015
May 19, 2015
May 17, 2015
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