Five things you probably didn’t know about Gustav Mahler
When he was a little boy, someone asked Mahler what he wanted to be when he grew up; he said, …Read the Rest
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Time for Three: in concert in Greensboro, North Carolina
Last November and December, I heard and enjoyed the group (violinists Zachary De Pue and Nicholas Kendall, and bassist Ranaan …Read the Rest
Le saquebute
Readers may recognize the title of this post, and of the article reproduced above, as the French cognate for the …Read the Rest
Le bourgeois gentilhomme, by Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss and Hugo van Hoffmannstthal had already achieved operatic success with Elektra and Der Rosenkavilier when Hoffmannsthal suggested Molière’s …Read the Rest
Popular song in America, part 10: The rock revolution
Tin Pan Alley songs appealed to a predominantly urban, white, affluent, and musically literate segment of the population. They remained …Read the Rest
Five things you probably didn’t know about J. S. Bach
When Bach was a hungry young man with no money to buy food at an inn, someone tossed two herrings’ …Read the Rest
Girls and trombone: odder than I first thought?
I had just begun seventh grade the first time I met a girl trombonist, who was also in seventh grade. …Read the Rest
Popular song in America, part 9: Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley started during a time of transition in American musical theater. Late in the nineteenth century, the variety …Read the Rest
Who wrote the first opera in the United States?
The usual answer to that question, William Henry Fry, produced Leonora in Philadelphia in 1845. A skillful imitation of Bellini …Read the Rest
Popular song in America, part 8: After the Civil War
It takes a long time to recover from a trauma. The United States did not begin to recover from the …Read the Rest
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