Monthly Archives: October 2013

A Friend’s Responsibility

People forget that friends, especially long-term friends, have a special abiding responsibility to each other, far more than do casual acquaintances, colleagues, or even sometime friends. The longer you know a person, the more accountable you are for your deeds, … Continue reading

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The Missing Song

[The] feeling, power, originality, and beauty of folksong being a salvation in unmelodic times. —Max Bruch I think I’ve got it. By George, I think I’ve got it. The problem with modern scores, especially those by earnest younger hopefuls who … Continue reading

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Brick ‘n’ Mortar’s Slow Suicide

After many years of faithful if undistinguished service, my Epson scanner bit the big one and is now headed off to electronic Valhalla. For some weeks it had inexplicably and unexpectedly frozen, then recovered, then frozen again. Finally it was … Continue reading

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Muscle Car Pianists

We’re in the midst of a retail bonanza. The record labels, ever mindful of the money yet to be made from their vast back catalogs, have been gleefully releasing box sets of their great artists of the past. We, the … Continue reading

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Downsize This

I hereby elect musical downsizing as a pointless evil of the modern musical world. I’m sick and tired and fed up with and just plain through with modernist, HIP-infused, prissy, snippy, joyless damn shrinking down of musical works into itty … Continue reading

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