Green Shoots!
Mud Season!
Yesterday on NPR’s Fresh Air, I heard an interview with singer and composer Theo Bleckmann, a German native who moved to New York in 1989 and has been, according to his bio, “a steady force in the New York downtown music scene for over 15 years.”
Now, don’t worry if you don’t know what “downtown music [...]
Filed under: 20th century, music, musical theater | Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill, Terry Gross, Theo Bleckmann | No Comments »
Okay, so spring is technically over a month old, but the Upper-Mid-West, or Western-Northeast, or whatever you call the region where I currently reside, was slow to get the memo. We crawled gingerly out of our winter funk, only to get a coupla final cold blasts in our faces. But we persevere, and the daytime [...]
Filed under: 20th century, 30 Days, classical, holidays, humor, music, music & politics, musical theater | Tagged: May Day, Beltane, The Internationale, Billy Bragg, Camelot, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Antonio Vivaldi | 2 Comments »
Since this is a recently-launched blog, I’ve been talking it up and posting links to it on other blogs where I regularly read and comment. (If you came here via one of those links, welcome and thanks for clicking! )
I got the following reply to one of my links:
I looked at your blog… but [...]
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