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Tag: musical values
14 September 2026
I defend 12EDO these days becasue it gets a bad rap. It is a quasicrystal, and creates the frictionless behavior within that is structurally the same as the frictionless – superconducting! property of some quasicrystals.
Quasicrystals do appear in …
24 August 2026
The Death of Tragedy
My readings of Stifter and Jean Paul, my hearings of Brahms and Schumann, these clashed last night with Schiller’s essays on tragedy, the sublime, and the pathetic. The death of tragedy fell quickly out of that …
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 …
22 May 2023
Thanks, Liz Thomson, co-founder and Director of The Village Trip, together with Cliff Pearson, for helping me clarify the provenance of Herrick’s Oratorio.
Fr. Graeme Napier, Rector of St. John’s in the Village, hoped to commission a mass …
1 July 2022
RSF commissioned David Amram to set two poems by his old friend Jack Kerouac, celebrating the Kerouac Centenary, scored for voice and two guitars.
Hear them on September 10 at St. John’s in the Village, an opening event for The Village Trip. They …
23 June 2021
La Musique en Boucle
John Chang sur Seungmin Cha
En 2010, j’ai rencontré Seungmin Cha pour la première fois, une joueuse de daegeum (flûte traversière en bambou d’origine coréenne) qui recevait une bourse gouvernementale d’échange culturel …
6 November 2020
Iao Theater, Wailuku, Mauik Maui, Hawai’i
multimedia performance presented by Ebb & Flow Arts
Upcoming on Furious Artisans
E n t e r t w i n e d
Robert Pollock Five Decades
Pollock’s music is unique, and uniquely American.His sound …
7 November 2019
Jotting some notes here that will have to be edited and focused in the fullness of time.
Links to sound or video are in the works.
I consulted with Harold Bloom
when preparing for Cygnus’ RW Emerson bicentennial celebration.
In the end, Bloom …
