This Month's Exploring Music
The great stories of classical music and jazz, featuring the great musicians, composers and colorful people that make the music even MORE interesting.
This Month's Exploring Music
Dash, Bravura, and Precision
Looking back at the musical life of England in the early 19th century, one gets the impression that the entire country was thronged with pianist-composers celebrated in their day--and a...
Dash, Bravura, and Precision
Looking back at the musical life of England in the early 19th century, one gets the impression that the entire country was thronged with pianist-composers celebrated in their day--and a...
Modern but Not Avant-Garde
I have to admit that Schoenberg is almost hummable, Berg sometimes very moving, and Webern's is a fascinating mind.
Modern but Not Avant-Garde
I have to admit that Schoenberg is almost hummable, Berg sometimes very moving, and Webern's is a fascinating mind.
A Room-Filling Sound
Like other American autobiography, jazz improvisation reveals the tensions between the private and the public man. Here we have the legendary Lionel Hampton striding six decades of the beat in...
A Room-Filling Sound
Like other American autobiography, jazz improvisation reveals the tensions between the private and the public man. Here we have the legendary Lionel Hampton striding six decades of the beat in...
Resurrecting America's Colonial Music
Readers of musical journalism will be aware that it is filled with a constant wailing and lamenting about how the contemporary American composer is ignored by opera companies, orchestras, soloists,...
Resurrecting America's Colonial Music
Readers of musical journalism will be aware that it is filled with a constant wailing and lamenting about how the contemporary American composer is ignored by opera companies, orchestras, soloists,...