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Image from cover of Sony Classical's Greatest Hits: Handel
Restoring Intellectual DayVariations on a ThemeGeorg Frideric HandelA Night With Handel [DVD][Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Jonathon Keates](Kultur) US release date: 13 November 2007 [17 January 2008] by Chadwick JenkinsIt rankles my sensibilities that great music is considered "timeless" and therefore Handel's music still "means" today whatever it was it meant in his own time.
Variations on a Theme
The Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding StasisChadwick Jenkins02.Jul.08 What happens to the ear when it receives musical sound? Do we hear "our" music as music and the rest as noise? 
The Practicality of the Impossible: John Cage and the Freeman EtudesChadwick Jenkins02.May.08 John Cage replaces the comforting order of the cosmos with the recalcitrant, indecipherable organization of a part of the universe. Each sound, radically set off from the others, demands that we hear it in isolation. 
Every Good Boy Does FineChadwick Jenkins21.Feb.08 Required to take a music class in high school I signed up for chorus, but the teacher offered me $50 to drop the class – and other ruminations about learning to play the piano.
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Negritude 2.0: Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is Wrong
By Mark Reynolds [3.Jul.08] Variations on a Theme: The Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding Stasis
By Chadwick Jenkins [2.Jul.08] Jazz Today: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
By Will Layman [27.Jun.08] Channel Crossings: Re-make/Re-Model and the Becoming of Bryan Ferry
By Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski [19.Jun.08] |
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