Most of us have heard that Richard Wagner was antisemitic and was one of Hitler’s mentors for his own antisemitic scheme, but I for one had never actually read anything he actually said or wrote. This is not the thing music history classes teach–or at least the ones I took. I stumbled across this quote [...]
“I want to enthrall the world by my creative work, by its wondrous beauty. I want to be the brightest imaginable light, the largest sun. I want to illumine the universe by my light. I want to engulf everything and absorb everything in my individuality. I want to give delight to the world. I want [...]
Lisa Summer, author of “Music The New Age Elixir”
I’m reading a fairly interesting book called MUSIC: The New Age Elixir by Lisa Summer. It calls to task the several shelves of books that have been written about music and the spiritual world over the past 100 years or so, from the point of view of [...]
Mark Swed wrote a brilliant review for Christopher Rouse’s new REQUIEM which I didn’t get to hear because of my own concert at the same time. I don’t normally think CHORUS when I think of Christopher Rouse, but Swed’s review was so exciting, I can’t wait to hear it.
I was amazed to hear one pop song from the late 60s after another pop up as on-screen music in Warren Beatty’s early film “Shampoo.” The Beatles, Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Buffalo Springfield, Jefferson Airplane, and the only credit we see in the entire film is at the beginning: “Music by Paul Simon.” His stuff, what [...]
About the Composer Michael Kaulkin writes about music.
Alex Ross The ever effervescent music cricket of the New Yorker magazine.
Aworks Robert Gable offers bite-sized comments about contemporary Classical music.
Blognoggle Jerry Bowles’ labor of love; this RSS feed “Shadows the Top 100 Classical Music Blogs”
Bourland.com My brother Andy’s blog; he’s been blogging since the beginning. One of [...]
Tomorrow Is Such A Long Time
If today was not an endless highway
If tonight was not a crooked trail
If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time
then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all
Ah but only if my own true love is waitin’
Yes and if I could hear her heart a softly poundin’
only if she were lying [...]
I just realized that part of my love for the music of Gram Parsons was actually a love for the music of a songwriting team I didn’t realize I idolized: Boudleaux and Felice Bryant. Having sold 500 million records and written some 1500 songs, they have written some of my favorite music. Besides the list [...]
In case you wonder about the predecessor of the music box, or the current so-called glockenspiel used in marching bands and orchestras, BibliOdyssey unearthed this engraving of the Salzburg glockenspiel by Christoph Lederwasch from the University of Salzburg’s Special Collections.
From Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” illustrated by E. Mars and M. H. Squire; published by Rand McNally and Company, 1902.
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