NaBloPoMo Day 21! Yesterday I gave a bit of history and background about Mahler and his 9th (including the rather important role his music has …
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Monthly Archives: May 2008
NaBloPoMo Day 20! My first real date with McDoc (which, I told him, was not a date, just as our two previous dates had also …
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NaBloPoMo Day 19! Well, rats! :grr: I wanted to write my review of Mahler’s 9th today, and it occurred to me that it would be …
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NaBloPoMo Day 18! This afternoon I attended the Detroit Symphony‘s performance of Gustav Mahler‘s Symphony no. 9. I’m going to write about it, you can …
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NaBloPoMo Day 17! I lived in New York City for four years, back in the ’90s (that’s in the last century! 😯 ). I did …
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“How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea?”
I came across this quote the other day in a post about musical responses to great tragedies: “Requiems,” by Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker.
Ross’ understanding of Shakespeare’s question (which, as he mentions, Wallace Stevens cited while writing about World War II) concerns the light-in-the-darkness function that musicians serve in the face of horrific events:
How, in other words, can artists respond to news that exceeds their most extravagant nightmares?”
Happily, we can, and do, respond in many ways…
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NaBloPoMo Day 15! The conclusion to my little series on criticism continues to brew, so I thought in the meantime I’d post some Actual Music. …
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NaBloPoMo Day 14! Woo hoo! Miss Music Nerd officially passed the 5000-hit mark a coupla weeks ago, and is now closing in on 6000! So …
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NaBloPoMo Day 13! I left off yesterday discussing my utopian vision for a better world. 😉 Or, at least my fervent hope that human interaction …
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NaBloPoMo Day 12! When I was a fresh-faced, eager young grad student in the first term of my Ph.D. composition program, I took a seminar …
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