ASCAP: organized crime?
Michael Byrne’s article published today in this week’s CityPaper taking ASCAP to task is sure to stir up a firestorm. Keep those cards and letters to the editor coming.
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Upgrading
SLN is upgrading to a newer version of WordPress. Though I don’t anticipate any problems, if there are, you’ll know what happened. Update: Upgrading is complete. Sorry for the down time. Don’t attempt updates in hotels with weak internet connections.
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Beginnings
One year ago today, I played a on a concert that got reviewed, but something much better happened as well.
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Listing The Wire
Readers of SLN know that I’m an obsessive fan of The Wire. I actually kind of stumbled upon the series in a hotel room somewhere while I was on tour when it first came out —I’ve never had HBO at home. The first thing I noticed was, “Hey, I know that block! That’s right around the corner from my apartment!” That realization came in the very first episode when Wee-Bey stops the truck in front of the New York Fried Chicken—at the corner of S...
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Sax Journal Review
American Voices got a nice write-up in the current issue of the Saxophone Journal. Here are a couple choice quotes: “In performing Piece in the Shape of a Square Brian Sacawa exhibits a strong vibrant sound on saxophone with phrasing and intensity that makes the piece come alive.” And . . . All the pieces on this American Voices CD are, at the very least, extremely provocative. Brian Sacawa’s interpretive skills are laudable, and in fact, admirable. American Voices is new music for the saxophone...
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The Wire: R.I.P.
I’ll need something to fill the void. Thoughts to come.
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Bolcom to orchestras: You suck!
There’s a little Q&A with composer William Bolcom in today’s Wall Street Journal, which contains this exchange about one of his upcoming works: WSJ: You’ve written eight symphonies. Do you have a ninth in the works? Bolcom: The ninth will be for a concert band, which I will deliver by September. To get an orchestra to spend more than three or four rehearsals on something is like pulling teeth. Ouch.
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