Keep listening to Rev. Davis and you’ll wind up with observing emerging architectonic details with each encounter. Meditate or think about it all and you … Continue reading
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Brahms meets Sitting Bull and Queen Victoria
How close can we ever get to Brahms? Trawling through an immense bibliography of research, one entry stopped me in … Continue reading
Country & Eastern, or The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices Gets Solved
Until recently [1991, when this article was penned], few listeners in the prosperous and relatively safe West knew that an … Continue reading
A Labor of Hate: Sonic Depth Technology
“You must be doing this all as a labor of love.” It’s an oft-heard comment that has to be politely … Continue reading
Eyes and ears at Santa Maria in Trastevere
Each time you approach Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, Roma, its sultry light, shadows, pontifically gesturing statues and earthen tones … Continue reading
Happy 200th Birthday to Joe Green (a.k.a. Giuseppe Verdi)!
The great Italian opera traditions that exploded in the 19th century are primarily due to Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). Not only … Continue reading
Roots of Shreds: Italian pop does the Beatles.
Teresa Sterne: guiding genius of Nonesuch Records when it took flight entered my life when Arbiter first started, around 1995. … Continue reading
Ludwig’s Gnome
What a dizzying array of history swarms around the legendary pianist Frederic Lamond (1868-1948). Like his older colleague Eugen D’ … Continue reading
Czech modernism
Beethoven exhausted the string quartet. Thoroughly. It took nearly a century for Bartók to stand up and continue its destiny. … Continue reading
Chopin conjured by a Hermetic.
After his death months before his 101st birthday in 1993, Bice Horszowski Costa and I looked through the library of … Continue reading