It was a tough day in the Dolomites for Ivan Basso, who gave up the maglia rosa to Discovery Channel’s Paolo Savoldelli in the Giro d’Italia. Despite the elastic seeming to snap on the day’s penultimate climb, Basso was able to recover enough to help the chase group pull back Lampre boys Simoni and Cunego. […]
ACD sets me straight and points out an error in my last post (since corrected). I wrote mistakenly that there is 6 cent difference between A=440 and A=446. The real difference is more on the order of 23 cents I am informed. Here’s ACD’s errata notice and cent-calculation formula:
“The difference between A=440 and A=446 expressed […]
The sometimes controversial Ilka Talvi has an interesting piece on tuning and intonation. A couple choice quotes: “Hearing music played absolutely in tune can be almost intoxicating. [N.B. That’s exactly how I felt when I heard Karl Leister’s spot-on intonation.] Ear training should be far more extensive and every music student should learn to understand […]
. . . is what you might call my summer reading list. (Although I think the prize for most ambitious goes to Terry Teachout, who jumped off the deep end rather innocently.)
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
Art & Fear, Paul Virilio
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, Takashi […]
We learn from uTopianTurtleTop what classical musicians stand to gain by emulating rock bands.
There might be more music on NPR in the near future: ” The [Corporation for Public Broadcasting]’s board has told its staff that it should consider redirecting money away from national newscasts and toward music programs produced by NPR stations.” Sound good? Maybe, but not if you consider why. The Times reports today that NPR […]
Yes, yes, I know that Alex Ross already posted this quote. But what Anthony Tommasini writes in his article about the controversy surrounding the premiere of Lorin Maazel’s opera 1984 by the Royal Opera at Covent Garden is a brilliant observation: “Gifted composers would line up to write a commissioned work for Covent Garden. But […]
And now for a bit of absurdity: This cat is amazing. He blogs. He does all his own typing and gets tons on comments. Cat people (yes, you, Alex and Jerry) need to check this out.
Here’s a funny story about a fellow who “invented” a new state-of-the-art synthesizer back in 2000. He faked all the magazine ads with some marvelous Photoshop work and managed to get the European synth community on its head over a product that never existed. (Courtesy of Mark Pachucki.)
Thanks to ACD for re-adding Sounds Like Now […]
New interview posted at Living Music.