Archive for November, 2007

Unsilent Baltimore 2007

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Phil Kline’s Christmas masterpiece, Unsilent Night, makes a triumphant return to Baltimore next month (Friday, December 21 at 8 p.m., to be exact). New for 2007: check out the brand new website and be sure to catch the

Slate of the union

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Has anyone (besides my lovely assistant) been following the dialogue between Alex “Savior-of-Classical-Music” Ross and Ben Ratliff over on Slate? I found this comment by Alex, which kind of ties in to a couple of my recent posts, interesting (well, more like, good because it jibes with what I said):
A jazz club finds the perfect […]

An honor to be nominated

Monday, November 5th, 2007

I was extremely flattered to learn last week from my esteemed record company that American Voices is being considered for a Grammy nomination in two categories—Best Performance by a Soloist (without Orchestra) and Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Keeril Makan’s Voice Within Voice. Voting members of the Academy have to cast their ballots by today. […]

Big sky

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Overheard in Bismarck

Friday, November 2nd, 2007