Via Alex Ross: Pianist Henry Hey does a bebop-meets-Steve Reich treatment on Sarah Palin's Couric interview ... Somehow I doubt this will achieve the smashing success of will.i.am's Yes We Can. But truly a moment of inspiration … [Read more...]
Obama’s tax cuts (with soundtrack)
Obama campaign now has its own nifty tax cut calculator. Check it out. Know more than Joe the plumber. And here's the web ad. Best part of this ad? The music was written by my old Tanglewood roomie Judd Greenstein, who's a … [Read more...]
Don’t miss the third annual HONK! Festival in Somerville, MA
Mark your calendars for October 11-12th for the third annual HONK! Festival. HONK! is an exciting and eclectic festival that features activist brass band musicians throughout Davis Square in Somerville, MA. This year, organizers … [Read more...]
FREE CONCERT: Worcester @ Noon, (and on WICN radio)!
It's free! And it's the most fun in Worcester since Tim Murray was elected Lieutenant Governor! So, get to Mechanic's Hall, listen to WICN, or hit the website, and have a great musical lunch! * The drummer is a Brookline … [Read more...]
Messire in Woosta
Shameless self-promotion alert: Charley and I are, respectively, the tenor and bass soloists in this year's annual performance of Handel's "Messiah" by Music Worcester. The concert is tonight (Saturday) at 8 pm in Mechanics Hall -- a … [Read more...]
RIP Craig Smith
It's hard to know where to start in cataloguing Craig Smith's musical accomplishments. The most famous is that, as music director of Emmanuel Church, Craig decided to recreate J.S. Bach's practice of performing a cantata -- a … [Read more...]
Musical notes
A couple of arts-related items y'all might find interesting.Governor and Mrs. Patrick were spotted at Boston Lyric Opera's season-opener on Friday night: Puccini's much-beloved "La bohème." Reports the Globe:Governor Deval … [Read more...]
Homeland Security Run Amok
In a baffling and outrageous case, British musicologist Nalini Ghuman has been barred from the United States for more than a year for as yet unexplained reasons.Ghuman, who is an Assistant Professor at Mills College in Oakland, … [Read more...]
RIP Jerry Hadley
The American operatic tenor Jerry Hadley died today, at age 55, about a week after suffering an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.At his best, Hadley was a terrific singer, and he had a career that any aspiring singer … [Read more...]
RIP Beverly Sills
Today's Globe brings the sad news that Beverly Sills passed away last night at the age of 78. She apparently died of lung cancer, even though she never smoked. A cruel irony for a world-class opera singer -- one of several in … [Read more...]