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April 7, 2010

Spring revel

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I'm participating in the above event, on May 2. We're not entirely sure what's going to happen, but don't be surprised if you hear some combination of Thai soul, death metal, Justin Bieber, and, of course, nude Stravinsky. Details to follow at Stereogum.

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Published on April 07, 2010 05:56

April 2, 2010

Weekend video

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Published on April 02, 2010 17:04

April 1, 2010

Boulez goes tonal, Bieber on Biber, and more

The Lower Midtown Orchestra announces an unbelievably exciting 2010-11 season.
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Published on April 01, 2010 06:20

March 25, 2010

Weekend videos

Emil Richards and the Microtonal Blues Band, 1968.





Happy birthday to the singular Robert Ashley, who turns eighty on March 28th.

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Published on March 25, 2010 20:51

March 21, 2010

For Wolfgang Wagner

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One hundred ninety-seven years after his grandfather Richard was born, Wolfgang Wagner has passed away, in Bayreuth, at the age of ninety. Es riss!



Photo: Wagner in Bayreuth, 2004.

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Published on March 21, 2010 21:12

Pavement returns

The inscrutably mellow indie-rock band Pavement is back in the news, with a reunion tour underway. In one of my sporadic attempts at pop-music criticism, I wrote about the band for The New Yorker in 1997. The piece won't appear in Listen To This —I wasn't sure of its enduring value—but I offer it here for documentary purposes.
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Published on March 21, 2010 08:29

March 20, 2010

Weekend videos

Augustin Hadelich plays Ysaÿe.





Julius Eastman's Gay Guerrilla.

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Published on March 20, 2010 08:30

March 15, 2010

Art must die

I was surprised and delighted to see my name pop up in John Colapinto's New Yorker profile of the young jazz bassist and composer Esperanza Spalding. She'd been reading The Rest Is Noise—on a Kindle, no less—and pondering a quotation that appears in the first chapter: lines from a letter that Richard Wagner wrote to Franz Liszt in 1850, condemning the emergent "classical" tendency in the musical world. It's one of Wagner's most remarkable utterances, and I thought I'd reprint a longer sample...

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Published on March 15, 2010 04:55

March 12, 2010

Welcoming new visitors

Benvenuto! Bienvenido! Willkommen! This site is a companion to my books The Rest Is Noise and Listen To This (forthcoming). To listen to audio examples for each chapter of Noise, go here . For a glossary of terms, go here . I blog about musical matters at Unquiet Thoughts , on the website of the New Yorker magazine, where I am the music critic.
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Published on March 12, 2010 14:51

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