A long post about my tenth album "SoLò Ópus", out January
Read More »Revisiting an older post about genre, finding out that Genre in music employs people, creates niche markets and gives us something to talk about.
Read More »It was in sixth grade “art” class at Columbia Middle School, that I -- a 12-year old scholarship student freshly arrived from Russia with very limited English -- and my classmates, were asked to vote on a radio station to listen to during class. Everyone wanted to listen to Z100 -- everyone but me.
Read More »An appreciation of a recital by my teacher, violist Samuel Rhodes
Read More »I don’t know how many of you read the sports pages for your dose of “Classical Onion” headlines, but here’s one which caught my eye this morning — Three cheers for Ben Shpigel. (The original story is here.)
Read More »Oy! A program of works by Osvaldo Golijov, Miguel de Aguila, Copland and Mendelssohn titled …. “DIRTY DANCING”! (and that’s just the first movie title of the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Series in Madison, Wisconsin.) Surely, this series is “pure protein”! 🙂
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