Molly Sheridan, host of NewMusicBox's vibrant Friday Informer wrap-up, has a blog of her own on ArtsJournal. It's called Mind the Gap, and it looks on both sides of the theoretical pop-classical divide.... Andrew Patner's new-ish blog The View From Here now carries podcasts from the lavishly cultured host's WFMT interview series, Critical Thinking. Here's Boulez on Janáček (note the priceless pronunciation of the phrase "That is for sure").... A reminder that Russell Platt is posting on The New Yorker's award-winning Goings On blog.... You can't keep Alan Rich down for long: he will be writing for Bloomberg News and also at his own site, So I've Heard (under construction).... As ever, wacky accents inspired by The Fredösphere.
Syncretic playlist:
— Charles Wuorinen, Ashberyana, etc.; Sarah Rothenberg and Da Camera of Houston (Naxos)
— Janáček, From the House of the Dead; Boulez conducting, Patrice Chéreau directing (DG DVD)
— Helmut Lachenmann, Ausklang, Richard Strauss, Alpine Symphony; Ensemble Modern (EM)
— 2 Foot Yard, Borrowed Arms (Yard Work)
— Unsuk Chin, Alice in Wonderland (Medici DVD)
— John Harbison, Ulysses; Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP Sound)
— Scott Wheeler, The Construction of Boston; Donald Teeters conducting The Boston Cecilia (Naxos)
— Nico Muhly, Mothertongue (Bedroom Community/Brassland)
— Philip Glass, Waiting for the Barbarians (Orange Mountain)
— John Luther Adams, In the White Silence; Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble (New World)
