Archives for September, 2010

What do you get when you play John Cage’s 4’33″ at one-eighth speed?


09.27.10

Who answered, 36’24″?

Academie d’Overrated


09.15.10

Kyle Gann on Arnold Schoenberg:

Anything Joan [Tower], George [Rochberg], and I agree on from our disparate and non-overlapping perspectives must contain a degree of objective truth. Face it: Arnold Schoenberg is O. V. E. R. R. A. T. E. D. He deserves maybe two, three paragraphs in a comprehensive music history text.

Up Bright and Early


09.9.10

WQXR's Q2 Radio playing Saxophone Quartets.

This, THIS is why I love WQXR‘s Q2 station. What other radio station IN THE WHOLE WORLD, IP based or otherwise, can you tune in first thing in the morning and hear a saxophone quartet playing?1

None.

None other station.2

  1. Yeah it’s not the H2 version.3 Baby steps guys. ↩

  2. You heard me. ↩

  3. Oh god, Carina. Really?!?4 ↩

  4. I footnoted a footnote. That just happened. ↩