It’s a little off my usual subject, but I did want to weigh in with a couple observations on the death of Michael Jackson.
I was never a big fan of Jackson’s, though his talent was unmistakable. I remember being a young kid and marveling at the power of the young voice that sang I Want [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 28, 2009
Thoughts on Michael Jackson
June 21, 2009
What Bach’s job benefits tell us
In the middle of my current Bach mini-0bsession, I’ve come across a couple interesting things.
The first, and not hard to find, was that I can see the entire documentary of the John Eliot Gardiner/Monteverdi Choir cantata pilgrimage of 1999-2000 on YouTube, and it’s a beautiful thing. This is one of the last major cultural documents [...]
June 14, 2009
Music to work by
I”ve found that I can work much better at repetitive or research-intensive tasks that require a lot of sitting here and staring if I have good brain music to work by.
When I last was a member of Cubicle Nation (and I was a member of 25 years’ standing, too), one of the pieces that helped [...]
June 9, 2009
Loewe, other Broadway writers, deserve musicological treatment
In the midst of furious preparation for the fifth print edition of ArtsPaper, out last week, and for the Tony Awards, which I admit to watching every year, I have been thinking about the life and work of Frederick Loewe.
I even checked out a copy of the movie version of Brigadoon from the library, and [...]
