"I just melt into this anthemic sort of otherness that just sort of exists. And maybe otherness is really the word for it."
Eight new albums worth exploring this last weekend of March 2024
This evening, I will be attending a concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic where conductor/composer Michael Tilson Thomas will lead the orchestra in the first of three performances of Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
This would put me on a path...
Eleven new recordings to explore this weekend!
Everyone from Tom Waits to Barbra Streisand to Ne-Yo to Panic! At the Disco has recorded songs from Disney films. Whether they were written by the Sherman Brothers, Alan Menken, Elton John or Peggy Lee, these songs have become...
"I've always felt myself to be specifically an American composer."
Shakespeare told us to “beware the ideas of March.” Too bad he (and Julius Caesar in the play) aren’t around to see and hear the best of what’s New In Music This Week: March 15th.
My top pick is:
JAZZ: THE SKY WILL STILL...
"If people are able to walk away talking about their own identity as well as understanding a little portion of this Latino family's journey, I think that would be really cool."
Eight new recordings to explore on Oscar weekend
Sixteen albums to explore the first weekend in March