Archive for September, 2009
Me and a Guitar
Call it an early prejudice, a slab of ignorance, or just a plain matter of taste, but I’ve honestly never been a huge fan of the classical guitar (or any guitar for that matter). Maybe it hails back to my high school days when it seemed those who could play guitar—again, any sort of [...]
The Worm in the Ear
I am going to do a huge composition project that I call The EarWorm Project, which is basically going to be a series of pieces based on those insidious songs—love them or hate them—that you cannot for the life of you get out of your head once they are there; more about this later. What [...]
The Excellent Listening Never Ends
Its been a good few musical days—apart from my own work, I’ve had a veritable orgy of listening. Lenny’s Haydn, of course, more gems from the Complete Stravinsky (Mavra!), Horowitz playing Brahms (First Piano Concerto!) and Schumann (C Major Fantasy from the Carnegie Hall Private Collection) and some old recordings like Bernstein’s Mass and [...]