Aweigh in A Major
A composer's thoughts about music and musiciansLadyslipper and Chives
Now! Hear the songs! I know not what are the words But they sing in my soul of the things our Fathers loved. number of the American modernists developed their art under the aegis of another profession. Poet William Carlos Williams...
On Another’s Sorrow
Recently I attended a memorial service, a beautiful service for a man I didn’t know. That was my loss. He was dear to all present, had died suddenly and too young, and I wish I had known him. I knew his widow but a little; we had sung together in a choir. On this...
A Welsh Bard in Saint Paul
his coming Wednesday, April 20, 2016, The Schubert Club will welcome the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel back to Saint Paul. There is no better ambassador for Welsh song—for song, period—than Terfel. That’s “Terrrvel.” (For pronunciation...
A Solitary Place
. . . I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be. (Shelley, Julian and Maddalo) efore a concert on the campus of what used to be called...
The Untold Story
How one American embraced, forsook, embraced, forsook, and ultimately EMBRACED… …the tonal processes that drive us all! Sylvester Stallone is cast against type as the mild-mannered Copland. With Harvey Keitel as the inscrutable Roger Sessions, and as Nadia...
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