arr. Guerrieri: Still, Still, Still (2012) (PDF, 191 Kb) This year's holiday card is a two-voice-and-piano arrangement of one of my fa...

Over at NewMusicBox , critic-at-large Moe gets into the spirits of various seasons.

I'm traveling this week, so I'm a day late on a couple links. Over at NewMusicBox this week, I consider the composer's relation...

Reviewing the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Boston Globe , November 20, 2012.

I have a couple of First-Four-Notes -related articles up this weekend: On Beethoven's Fifth and other warhorses. Boston Globe , November...

Reviewing the Cantata Singers and Ensemble. Boston Globe , November 12, 2012.

The American Music of Elliott Carter. A composer of the American experience. Boston Globe , November 11, 2012. The image is from Carter...

Reviewing Boston Lyric Opera's Madama Butterfly . Boston Globe , November 5, 2012.

For All Saints' Day, a chance to remember past articles that I was too lazy to link to: Reviewing Sound Icon. Boston Globe , Octobe...

The best thing about a Schoenberg O'Lantern? With the lights on, it looks like a Schoenberg self-portrait: Update (10/31): Arnold guar...

PERMISSION GRANTED. BUT NOT TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. —John Cage, "Seriously Comma" (1966) One of the dilemmas of mental life is th...

Reviewing Donald Crockett's The Face . Boston Globe , September 3, 2012.

Because it has been a summer of STUFF and TASKS I have gotten dangerously lax about keeping up with even my own output. Some items you might...

The First Four Notes , my long-awaited (by me, that's for sure) book exploring the cultural history and misadventures of the opening ga...

As noted on Twitter this morning, The First Four Notes now has an index, which means it is pretty much finished. Beware the Ides of Novemb...

Reviewing the Parker String Quartet. Boston Globe , June 18, 2012.

I am a foolish person, and I am comfortable with that, but I at least have enough sense to be a little suspicious when something that seems ...

Some recent shouts into the wind you may have missed: New England's Prospect: Yard Work. MusikFabrik at Harvard; the Boston School at t...

Reviewing Emanuel Ax. Boston Globe , May 14, 2012.

Reviewing Boston Baroque's Orfeo ed Euridice. Boston Globe , May 7, 2012.