The music for Tuesday night was kind of a grab-bag — a bit of a let down from Monday night’s funk-fest, if you ask me. …
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Category Archives: music & politics
You never know when an opportunity for music education will present itself. This is both delightful and vexing to yours truly, because it means that …
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Hé, toi! As I hinted at briefly in my last post, I got a chance to do some impromptu music-making while I was in Austin, …
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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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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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Miss Music Nerd is not an overtly political blog, and it is, for the most part, a lighthearted affair. But there are times when I …
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