The Met has a blog. It's a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Tan Dun's The First Emperor. Suzanne Mentzer is showing incipient signs of blog addiction. (Speaking of which, my hiatus seems to be on hiatus.) Link courtesy of Campbell Vertesi.
Playlist
— Lou Harrison, Mass for Saint Cecilia's Day, UCSC Chamber Singers (Kleos Classics)
— Terry Riley aka Poppy Nogood & The Phantom Band, All Night Flight (Elision Fields)
— Julian Anderson, Book of Hours (NMC)
— Debussy, Preludes, Steven Osborne (Hyperion)
— George Cacioppo, Advance of the Fungi (Mode)
— Meyerbeer, "Ah! mon fils, sois béni," Ernestine Schumann-Heink (Columbia/Sony)
Booklist
— John Rockwell, Outsider: On the Arts, 1967-2006 (Limelight)
— Howard Pollack, Gershwin (UC Press, Dec. 2006)
— Prokofiev, Diaries 1907-1914 (Cornell UP, Jan. 2007)
— Paul Griffiths, A Concise History of Western Music (Cambridge UP)
— Jack Sullivan, Hitchcock's Music (Yale UP)
