I'm intensely curious to see Gerard McBurney's Inside the Music presentation on the Shostakovich Fourth tonight at the NY Phil. A performance under Andrey Boreyko follows. Tickets are $25-62, with $12 student rush.... Kyle Gann has posted audio of his piano concerto Sunken City, a New Orleans celebration and lament. It's a swinging, haunting piece, evoking the city before and after the flood. One passage toward the end made me think of Lou Harrison picking his way through the ruins, shaking his head.... In the spirit of the season, here's a boldly microtonal singing Christmas card from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. We see some obvious future beneficiaries of Mike Huckabee's music-education scheme — although the woman who sings "Hillary's Woodstock Museum" has a certain flair.... New blog: Sticks and Drones, with conductors Bill Eddins and Ron Spiegelman. It's part of the growing Adapistration empire.
