Throughout my twenties and well into my thirties I worked as a busy freelance pianist in the SF Bay Area, always ready to take on whatever (paid)...
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Scanning through pre-publication lists ranks high among my guilt-free, no-cost pleasures. The abundance and scope of forthcoming written material,...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
The labels have been releasing a steady stream of Haydn recordings in honor of the 200th anniversary of the beloved Austrian master's death. (Our next...
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There have been a lot of composers writing a lot of music over the years, and it's pretty safe to assume that not all of them have been exclusively...
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"You play just like a composer!" Clifford Curzon once sniped to my friend, the composer David Conte. Curzon intended it, and David...
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I am toying with a notion that a popular e-book device just might have the potential to become a breakthrough musical tool as well.Somewhere out in...
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Of late I've been having an exceptionally fine time with music listening. That isn't to say that I normally don't have a fine time, only that the...
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I haven't the faintest idea how my subconscious sends Examiner subjects floating up into view. One minute I'm appreciating a fragrant box of organic...
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On the evening of Saturday, November 25, 1882 Arthur Sullivan took his bows with William Gilbert for another great success in the pair's series of...
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A bit on some of the recordings currently wending their way through my ears. Igor Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale Igor Stravinsky conducts the Columbia...
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