Brian Sacawa | Sounds Like Now

SLN has received a bump in the polls this year—the polls being Scott Spiegelberg’s annual Top 50 Classical Music Blogs. Using a new, and I might add, improved ranking system, we’ve skyrocketed from tied-for-49th to a very respectable 15th. This actually makes SLN the 4th best performer blog, though it’s not fair for us to […]

Baltimore’s 2nd annual performance of Phil Kline’s amibient Christmas masterpiece Unsilent Night took place last night and was by all accounts a smashing success. We had a record crowd of nearly 100 totally awesome participants. New for the 2007 edition of Unsilent Night in Baltimore was the summoning of aliens as we gathered in a […]

The batteries were all placed in the boombox with care . . . It’s the day before Unsilent Night in Baltimore and we’re ready to go. The press has been rolling in:

Baltimore City Paper: Critic’s Pick
Baltimore Sun: The Free Sheet
Washington Post: The Scene (scroll down)

Though it won’t be as cold as last year, it’s still […]

We have new car smell. (And a pretty wreath.)

The countdown to the 2007 edition of Unsilent Night in Baltimore has begun.

Stockhausen’s passing last week was well documented by the new (and not so) music community. I’ve yet to chime in, but here goes. Honestly, I was scared of Stockhausen. My fear wasn’t based on any personal experience with him—I never met him—but came from when I was learning his composition In Freundschaft.

All the reading I’d […]

Audio from HGP’s segment on WYPR’s The Signal is now available for download. Many thanks to Aaron Henkin for making us sound smashing.