Cover photo by Dan Dimmock on Unsplash TL;DR- I’m going to start doing some exciting new things on Substack and I hope they justify a paid content model. Some ideas that come to mind worth addressing in this piece: A … Continue reading What Might Be New Around Here
Cover photo by Eric Prouzet on Unsplash And by ‘play,’ I mean listen to as an individual, or more significantly, program as a music director or some sort of managerial staff of an ensemble. If you’ve ever followed a recipe … Continue reading Play This, Not That
Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash Everyone knows what a monopoly is. Everyone also knows that an alliteration can be very nice, and I love to use them. The opposite of a monopoly (where one seller controls the market) is … Continue reading The Monopsonistic Music Market?
Cover photo by Philippe Bout on Unsplash I’ve been hard at work on music lectures lately, with only a couple of weeks until I present Beethoven’s magnificent ninth symphony to an audience who just a few years ago had only … Continue reading The Potential for Scholarship
cover photo by Sebastian Unrau on Unsplash I said this was a thing I was going to do, and I’m finally sort of getting around to it. I came to know Mahler’s symphonies very much out of order. To my … Continue reading Memories: Mahler 1
photo by Lauren Sauder on Unsplash If I’ve said it once here, I’ve said it a thousand times: I love a good list. And what’s better than a list? A list in two dimensions. As in, like, a list just … Continue reading Comparing Recordings: a Chart
performed by the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra under Paavo Rautio, or below with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra under John Storgards (cover image by Vincent Guth) I received a telegram from Viipuri yesterday that made my blood run cold: “Yjrö fell on … Continue reading Leevi Madetoja: Symphony no. 2 in E-flat, op. 35
Fugue for Thought 