From 1956, Ernie Kovacs shows how to make a singing commercial.

I swear, this was going to be the week I finally got back on a regular blogging schedule, so of course, this would have to be the week I was...

Instrumental to his work and play. Peter Sykes and his keyboard arsenal. (Photos by Suzanne Kreiter.) Boston Globe , August 23, 2009.

Reviewing the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, part 2. Boston Globe , August 13, 2009.

Opera/Politics News: The Midsummer Marriage The Kids Are Alright: Sticking Up for Prodigies Wine, Women, and Song: A Bushel of Berg Hunter-G...

Reviewing Boston Midsummer Opera's Così fan tutte . Boston Globe , August 8, 2009.

From a press release announcing the new Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2 "Valentino Balboni": Adjustments have also been made to the...

At Tanglewood: Style Points Sharp Four: George Russell, 1923-2009 Kreuzspiel : Stockhausen Begs to Differ George Crumb's Spanish Trances

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...