Schonberg op. 11— performed entirely by cats . An approximation distilled from 170 YouTube videos and mapped onto Glenn Gould's recordin...

Reviewing the Tanglewood Music Center's Don Giovanni . Boston Globe , July 29, 2009.

Composer, arranger, and guru of the Lydian scale George Russell has died at the age of 86 .

Buy Esa-Pekka's House Cruising with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck At Tanglewood: Thomas Hampson's National Anthem At Tanglewood: Pilgrim...

Today in Intellectual Property news: copyright law invades the domain of Bavarian beer-hall yodeling. The money-spinning power of "hor...

Reading that the Boston Symphony Orchestra management and players have agreed to freeze salaries at their current minimum of $128,180, Tho...

At Tanglewood: Regularly-Scheduled Programming Work Rhythms: Battiselli's Experimentum Mundi Ceci n'est pas un Ring Cycle Rossini to...

Reviewing the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Boston Globe , July 15, 2009.

Kyle Gann, choosing an alternate reality : the reason Beethoven was so successful is that there are no subtleties in his music My God, I...

I was at my in-laws' for dinner last night, after which we watched some Korean TV, including, mostly because it happened to be on, some ...

Reviewing James Levine and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Boston Globe , July 13, 2009. Concert opera is always a touch surreal—hey,...

As of today, you can now experience me in two places at once. Bilocation! Just like Padre Pio ! (A special joke for anyone who paid attentio...

Somewhat off-topic (and via Kottke ), Fancy Fast Food is a brilliant goof.

OK, Molly , I did it, I went over and checked out Musoc.org , the latest is-this-really-serious pop-is-bad-classical-is-good manifesto websi...

Happy Independence Day! I love the fact that our nation commemorates the anniversary of the day we decided we were mad as hell and weren...

Mr. Glass agrees that there is a growing willingness to fund new music. "...The real thing about commissions is to be in a cycle of dem...

Too much Grau und Drang for proper blogging today. Here's a story instead: Jean Martinon , spare, white-haired conductor of the Chicago...

Harvard economist Greg Mankiw had an op-ed in The New York Times over the weekend busting the chops of the proposed "public option...

I'm not going to pretend to be neutral about Michael Jackson. Not even close. I still have a cassette tape of Thriller —it was the first...

Last night [conductor Frederik Prausnitz] brought his ensemble to Philharmonic Hall in a 20th-century program, ending with a work by Karlhei...