So in honor of J. Cage, born Sept. 5, 1912, there is this meme going around called the 4’33” playlist. It is pretty fun, especially since you get to snoop at other people’s music collections (much more telling than their bookshelves). Likely impossibilities has a bunch of enviable opera tracks and proudly states that she [...]
Annum Novum
Aug 31st, 2010
And so it all begins again. But this year it already seems (knock on wood) like there might be a few opportunities out there for someone with my interests and skills. Indeed, there are a couple of enviable positions specializing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I’ve also got my eye on a [...]
Now that we’re off the record.
Aug 22nd, 2010
The mp3 player, Napster, Bit torrent and other media technologies have all but destroyed the record industry. I am not writing this out of some feeling of panic, it is just the truth. I often wonder what is next. Prince says that the internet is dead, and although he is probably not as crazy as [...]
Charles Ansbacher et al. —the Good Folks
Aug 7th, 2010
So there is this guy. His name is Charles Ansbacher and he conducts the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. It is a wonderful orchestra that “presents exceptional orchestral music performances in significant architectural, historical and geographical settings throughout the Boston area, always free to the public.” I try to take the kid to see the orchestra whenever [...]
The Year One ADME
Jul 13th, 2010
One of the negative aspects of the DME (Dial M era) of musicology blogs was the frequent “meta-musicological” rant. In the new era, this has actually worsened. Currently many of my favorite writers are spending more time describing their blogs (and other’s blogs) than they are actually blogging. I am much more interested in what [...]
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- narrowcast, adj. and n.: OED Word of the Day September 4, 2010Today's word from the OED has the following earliest quotation: 1924 Los Angeles Times 6 Jan. II. 9/7, I believe very definitely that broadcasting as constituted today is commercially sound,..although there may be selective methods and narrow-cast methods which will do no harm. […]Oxford English Dictionary
