(An indistinct landscape. A long line of people waiting to pass through a simple, nondescript checkpoint. In the middle of the line, James B...

Just a quick programming note: because of festive-type obligations, Soho the Dog will be officially on hiatus next week. That doesn't me...

Cellist Charlotte Moorman describes the circumstances of her meeting Nam June Paik . Supporting characters include Karlheinz Stockhausen, A...

I was humming Christmas carols to myself last night, and I noticed that an awful lot of them start on the fifth scale degree. "Away in ...

I looked out the window, and what did I find? Just Galen H. Brown duly blowing my mind . Wow.

Lord knows I try to be funny. I love coming up with absolutely absurd notions about music for your amusement. But OboeInsight reminds me th...

One wet morning, when she was playing the hotel piano, and he listening, thinking to have her to himself, there came a young German violinis...

Bring me the head of Georges Bizet! The bronze bust of the composer, best known for his operas Le docteur Miracle , Don Procopio , and Numa ...

If you follow these things, you probably know by now that last week, Bank of America announced that it will no longer sponsor the Celebrit...

Last week's post on all things edible and ovoid brought forth a slew of creativity from the ether. I recommend you experience the entir...

Colin had a good post over at NewMusicBox this week about giving pieces titles (an unusually fine comment thread, as well). He takes Pende...

Lisa Boucher finds a really cool video . Matt Van Brink finds a really small piano . Elaine Fine finds a really awesome picture . Daniel Wo...

Hanukkah begins at sundown tomorrow. As I've been out and about this holiday season, I've been pleased to see that the amount of che...

Courtesy of Kyle Gann , four minutes of Oscar Peterson playing an eight-bar blues of Lisztian transcendence. Jesus mercy. Two of my heroes w...

It's that time of year again—the shopping, the malls, the conspicuous consumption—you know, gift time. And you're completely stymied...

All was happy-go-lucky joy; and, at two o’clock, as Branton Hills’ Municipal Band, (a part of Gadsby’s Organization of Youth’s work, you kno...

It's the time of year when people show up at your house and you have to feed them, so I've been using my brief snatches of spare tim...

I told you not to mess with the Freemasons! Booing drives Alagna out of the La Scala Aida in a fit of petulance: Opera Chic has the marvel...

Geoff Edgers passes along news and photos of Mother Nature having her revenge on Tanglewood , no doubt for all the global warming caused by...

Geoff Pullum at Language Log wishes a happy birthday to Noam Chomsky —and explains why singing the appropriate song is more appropriate tha...