NaBloPoMo Day 11! Another quick post, while the follow-up to yesterday percolates… It’s hard to believe it, but it’s been nearly a year since McDoc …
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Category Archives: 20th century
I didn’t expect that committing myself to a month of daily blogging would send me off on a nostalgia trip (for one thing, I’m uncomfortable with the notion that I’m old enough to be capable of nostalgia 😥 ). But the discussion of my Bartók String Quartet Watershed Moment brought up the memory of what has to be one of my top ten classical concert-going experiences of all time.
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NaBloPoMo Day 7! Yesterday I recounted the story of a defining moment in my musical education, when I learned that classical composition didn’t end with …
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NaBloPoMo Day 6! In yesterday’s post, I mentioned a few of the seminal composers and musical movements that developed during the 20th century, and that, …
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NaBloPoMo Day 5! (Happy Cinco de Mayo! 😀 ) It probably won’t come as a surprise that I have a musical cat. His name is …
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NaBloPoMo Day 2! It’s an enduring cultural phenomenon — a rite of passage, even. If you’ve ever been a) a teenager or 2) a middle-aged …
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Okay, so spring is technically over a month old, but the Upper-Mid-West, or Western-Northeast, or whatever you call the region where I currently reside, was …
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Yikes! 11 days into 2008 and this is my first post of the year! (My previous post says January 1, but it was still New …
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In the previous post, I wrote about the passing of my first composition professor Andrew Imbrie on December 5th. It turns out two other important …
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I’m terribly sad to report that I just found out about the passing of my first composition professor, Andrew Imbrie. I studied with him as …
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