Recording session today at Solid Sound in Ann Arbor. Rob Martens is a master at capturing a sound exactly. And he’s got a great set of ears and an easy-going studio manner to boot, making it a pleasure to work with him each and every time. Rob calls the studio “a million dollar facility” but […]
After reading Alex’s latest article in The New Yorker I emailed him this quote from Jacques Attali’s Noise, wondering why a preeminent culture vulture would neglect such a reference:
The phonograph, then, is part of a radically new social and cultural space demolishing the earlier economic constructions of representation. With the introduction of the record, the […]
“‘Bravo!’ Settembrini cried. ‘Bravo, lieutenant. You have described very nicely an indubitably moral element in the nature of music: to wit, that by its peculiar and lively means of measurement, it lends an awareness, both intellectual and precious, to the flow of time. Music awakens time, awakens us to our finest enjoyment of time. Music […]
I’m moving to Tucson. This fall I will join the faculty at the University of Arizona. Go Wildcats!
Ken Ueno’s one of my favorite composers and a good friend. Here are a couple quotes from an interview he gave recently:
“There isn’t as much potential for financial rewards [in classical music] as in pop music. But, there is the potential satisfaction that one had lived an uncompromising life of art in having created the […]
I don’t know what these numbers are that Alex is talking about, but when I visited the blog that tells you a lot about these numbers, something very strange happened. I was visitor number 0010774. Why is this strange? My birthday is October 4, 1977. Weird.
Some sharp satire from Alex Ross over the Hyperion Records case. How about the Alex Ross edition of Prokofiev’s Sarcasms?
As an undergraduate I had the great honor of studying with the legendary saxophonist Yusef Lateef for a time. Yusef’s on another level in terms of the thought process and execution of improvised music. Notice that I said “improvised music” rather than jazz or bebop. (His own term for the kind of music he plays […]
Have you ever wanted to get inside the mind of a critic? A new report released by Princeton University’s Lawrence McGill allows you to do just that. Called “The Classical Music Critic: A Survey of Music Critics at General-Interest and Specialized News Publications in America,” the document is the result of a collaborative effort between […]