Adventures in Radio

Adventures in Radio

Listen to Poland, a coun­try with an extra­or­di­nary musi­cal her­itage (and that would hold true if the only com­posers who came from there were Chopin and Lutoslawski). Start­ing Jan­u­ary 16 and run­ning through Jan­u­ary 22, Q2, the online radio arm of WQXR, is fea­tur­ing music from Poland: Muzyka Nowa. Heavy on 20th cen­tury music, the …

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Sight(s)

Bear with the site, as I’m about to under­take a sub­stan­tial revi­sion. The goal is to main­tain the same con­tent, but sim­plify, sim­plify, simplify .…

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Winter Music

In a Jan­u­ary with­out snow, there’s not much excuse not to get out of the house. And after what amounted to a long, lan­guid pause from Christ­mas through the first week of the new year, there are enough entic­ing events to plan for that no one, myself included, will be able to make it to …

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Links and Kinks

Links and Kinks

The mis­cel­lany of the inter­tubes … my post on Mahler brought up a ping-back that led me to this good arti­cle on Mahler’s orches­tra­tion … quite often, the web is like high school, full of peo­ple who’s expe­ri­ence and think­ing are lim­ited, and since they can’t see beyond the walls of their own enclo­sure, they …

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Paul Motian, Selected Discography

Paul Motian, Selected Discography

On Broad­way, Vol­ume 1 — Still a lovely record and the begin­ning of Motian’s long, late period pur­ple patch. Bill Evans — The best of the JMT discs, strikes a great bal­ance between straight-ahead play­ing and expres­sive think­ing, with­out a hint of sen­ti­men­tal­ity. Trio at the Vil­lage Van­guard/Sound of Love — The stu­dio records of this …

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