From the monthly archives:
Every once in a while a magical correspondence happens. Sometime back, I posted a YouTube performance of Arnold Schoenberg conducting the first movement of his PIERROT LUNAIRE. The flutist on this recording was Leonard Posella. The other day I received this letter from his son, Nino, who gave me permission to reproduce his letter here.
Mr. [...]
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Last night Ronnie and I went to Disney Hall to the 2nd concert of the Green Umbrella series.
The concert opened with a piece I dreaded hearing but I became a convert afterwards: the Berio trombone sequenza. Trombonist James Miller, in clown costume, sold it to the respectable crowd.
Joanne Pierce Martin made me fall in love [...]
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Part of my job as Chair of the UCLA Music Department is to know about all of our large and small performing ensembles. One group that is probably what most of the world thinks when it thinks music and UCLA is our marching band.
Yesterday Daniel and I spent from dawn to dark at the Rose [...]
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Some time ago, probably late 80s, I was sitting in Hugos in West Hollywood, with my partner having dinner. I looked across from me and there was David Crosby with his wife Jan. I couldn’t resist telling him that he changed my life and my music was very much influenced by his music. He was [...]
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Music by Sigur Ros. Pretty to look at. Eerie and wonderful.
Iceland from Eva Sturm on Vimeo.
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Americans celebrate Thanksgiving once a year. It’s a warm and fuzzy time often associated with being with one’s family — biological and not — and for being thankful. Like many other holidays, the origins are fuzzy, but we get the gist.
Being raised a Protestant American, “We Gather Together” meant Thanksgiving. It’s a great hymn. [...]
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