Music for the Cows by Jon Johnson. From the collection Mixed Voices, edited by Emilie Buchwald and Ruth Roston. What a fun, playful little poem. Farmers are practical people, all night in the barn the radio on. in their stalls…
Everyone Else Outsources, So Why Can’t The Arts? : NPR
Everyone Else Outsources, So Why Can’t The Arts? : NPR. In Columbus, Ohio, a number of arts groups are doing what American businesses started doing a long time ago: outsourcing. The recession hit nonprofits hard, and now these organizations (including…
A computer program is writing original works of classical music. By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine
A computer program is writing great, original works of classical music. Will human composers soon be obsolete? – By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine. His first breakthrough came when he began to rethink how human beings compose. His software had…
Corrections to the history behind the Barber Violin Concerto commission
I was just emailed by a Mr. Marc S. Mostovoy setting straight the famous story regarding the commission of Barber’s Violin Concerto. Apparently, the soloist for whom it was written, Iso Briselli, is innocent of the story’s reputed “inability” to…
Great Moments In Film Orchestration History: Bernard Herrmann :: Film Music Magazine
Great Moments In Film Orchestration History: Bernard Herrmann :: Film Music Magazine. A well written article about the coloristic creativity of Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, who scored such films as “Psycho” and “Citizen Kane”. Of course, I chose it because…
Olivier Messiaen’s Pianist Wife Yvonne Loriod Dies aged 86
via Sound Mind – A Classical Music Blog. “Loriod was one of the rare, tireless champions of new music — on piano as well as the Ondes Martenot, a ghostly early-electronic instrument.”