Here’s Jonny
P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is up for a total of 8 Oscars next weekend, including Best Picture. However, Jonny Greenwood’s music, taken largely from Popcorn Superhet Receiver, was
Love Song
I got a healthy dose of conductor David Robertson’s pedagogic prowess last month at the Concrete Frequency festival in L.A., where he offered straightforward, humor-laced intros to works by Berio,
No Handstamp Required
"I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the
I <3 Barbes
I was without plans this Valentine’s evening until I stopped into my beloved local Barbes, which offered up a big heart-shaped box of music by a pair of lady expats
It Ain’t Satan
My friend Jason clued me in to a show last night in the Meatpacking district by two brothers from Chicago who performed several renditions of Black Sabbath’s 1971 track "Into
I’m a Toddler
One year ago today, I wrote my first Feast of Music entry, about a concert I’d heard the night before at Carnegie by the Minnesota Orchestra. In the 258 posts
Old World/New Orchestra
Going to see a concert in Central Europe is generally a more sociable, more amiable experience than it is here in America. In Prague, for example, everyone dresses up –
My Kind of Grammys
Best Banda Album Te Va A GustarEl Chapo Best Native American Music Album Totemic Flute ChantsJohnny Whitehorse Best Polka Album Come Share The WineJimmy Sturr And His Orchestra (that makes
Indie Cred
Most people assume that indie rock, with its underground, anti-establishment pedigree, is significantly more authentic than mainstream rock or pop. In fact, like the rest of the music industry, it