Article: http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/a-real-mess/ Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQJlXAwROc With the growing preponderance of social media and critics’ eagle eyes in almost every creative and communications discipline, it has become extremely difficult to plagiarize anything… and not get caught. This poses a big problem today only because, … Continue reading
Aside from modernism and minimalism and some atonal work, musical history and the text books written about it are dominated by the late great dead Europeans. Even much of that was influenced by European composers. Today, Opera in particular is … Continue reading
For this blog I uncovered an article on NPR’s classical music blog “Deceptive Cadence” titled “Jonathan Biss Uncovers a Brahms Blind Spot.” The post, written by Jonathan Biss, covers the concept of “musical blind spots,” or pieces of music we … Continue reading