Music is great because you can put it on the stereo and still do other things. Not so dance, which requires one too many senses for multitas...

Today's time-sink is the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (free registration required), a joint project of the University of Oxf...

There's been an interesting mini-trend in operatic directing in the past few months: updating 19th-century comic operas to World War II ...

Terry Teachout throws down a nice challenge today: name a great Hollywood film score written for a comedy. Tough, because, like so much els...

In honor of Memorial Day, here's the finale of Dmitri Kabalevsky's 1963 Requiem , "for those who died in the war against fascis...

Today's the first really hot day we've had here in Boston this year—projected high of 91º F, a record for the day. For you all in th...

A request: I'm working on a follow-up to this tattoo post from a few weeks back. If you're a classical musician with body art, or h...

I'm running all over town today, but here's some stories from the UK to keep you entertained. Sympathy for Charlotte Harding, an 18-...

Erna Sack and Johannes Heesters in Nanon (1938). I've been experimenting with transferring 78 rpm records to the computer; here's a...

Reviewing the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston. Boston Globe , May 22, 2007.

Our librarian friend Rebecca Hunt (really, all of you should have a librarian friend) alerts us to the launch of the online Juilliard Manus...

Previewing the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Boston Globe , May 18, 2007. Some bits that didn't make it into the article: Anthony De ...

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) loved music, but he thought the joys of harmony paled next to the pleasures of the table. The fame...

We don't usually do birthdays on this blog, but we'll make an exception for Liberace, who would have turned the exquisitely appropri...

So there's this website called MyHeritage.com, and they've got this face recognition program, word of which has been going around t...

Reviewing Intermezzo Opera. Boston Globe , May 15, 2007.

Other Minds, the epitome of Left Coast new-music fun, has launched radiOM , an online clearing-house for archival recordings from Other Mind...

I had a good idea for a post over the weekend. I still have it; I sat down to write it last night and ended up spending the entire evening s...

Quotes for the day: Munger also spoke of bright people with streaks of "nuttiness". He gave Mozart as an example. Mozart was a bri...

And they weren't even playing Rite of Spring . Maybe disgruntled Fiedler supporters aren't as docile as they look. Via Geoff Edgers...