Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

A Hans Otte moment

A Marian Anderson moment

Sony is about to release Marian Anderson: Beyond the Music, a fifteen-CD survey that assembles her complete RCA Victor recordings.

Saariaho's Innocence

Beyond Tears. The New Yorker, July 26, 2021.

Eastman's Femenine

Florid Minimalism. The New Yorker, July 12, 2021.

A Phil Kline moment

Bookshelf

New and recent publications of interest.

Joseph L. Clarke, Echo's Chambers: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Micaela Baranello, The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna (University of California Press)

Eric Weisbard, Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music (Duke UP)

Susan Tomes, The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces (Yale UP)

Humphrey Burton, In My Own Time: An Autobiography (Boydell)

Chris Walton, Richard Wagner’s Essays on Conducting: A New Translation with Critical Commentary (University of Rochester Press)

Douglas W. Shadle, Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (Oxford UP)

Liz Brown, Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire (Penguin)

A Gernsheim moment

A Bielawa moment

Pursuant to the Josquin material below, here's Lisa Bielawa's Missa Primavera, composed for Matt Haimovitz's Primavera Project. It contains references to Josquin's Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae, as Lisa explains here.

Harry Hay and gay rights in L.A.

At the top of the Mattachine Steps.

A Cultural Comment on the New Yorker website.

Oedipus Rex at LA Opera

Sing It Loud. The New Yorker, June 28, 2021.