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10 January 2026
Dear AM,
Like Fanny Doolie we like passing tones, but neighboring tones are merely for “shits and giggles”.
I keep learning from your value judgement. I go back to it again and again. I agree in principle with it, but I cannot think of a …
1 January 2026
Glossary of Musical Terms
This is a glossary of terms in and around tricks of the trade, tricks that go back many centuries and are now mostly eclipsed. This is normal. There are always modalities that are in fashion, relegating other modalities to the …
3 September 2025
—->The Village Trip’s Wolpe-Albers-Brouwer-Feldman Weekend<—-
With Thomas Flippin, David Glaser, Ben Verdery, Kentner Anderson, Robert Morris and much more.
The performance will feature Leo Brouwer’s Cuban Landscape With …
20 August 2025
The Village Trip, in three pre-festival events at Loft393 in Tribeca
https://www.thevillagetrip.com/music-events-in-2025/
will explore Wolpe’s Interval Studies, performed on guitar and mandolin. There is a similar impulse behind Wolpe’s …
16 June 2025
The work discussed here will be released in a matter of months.
Here’s the story of a brilliant, talented composer with a heavy metal background tasked with writing an Agnus Dei for some group of amiable, good natured vocalists. The work turned …
8 November 2024
Jonathan Cross:
‘The spectral adventure has allowed the renovation, without imitation of the foundations of occidental music, because it is not a closed technique but an attitude.’11 Subsequent composers such as Marc-Andre ́ Dalbavie and Philippe …
3 September 2024
Ives, a Greenwich Village composer in his younger days, will be represented in The Village Trip lineup with his Violin Sonata #4 performed by violinist David Fulmer and pianist Joan …
18 August 2024
Metaphors and Analogies
I’m staking out some positions running up to >The microtonal Village< – an important part of a weekend of concerts September 19 through 22.
The Village Trip American Primitive and Inventors of Genius …
