• Jun 09, 2017

The poetics of the music of Pierre Boulez, I contend, are close to the development we see from Poe through Boudelaire and Mallarme to Valery. Boulez most likely began with an interest in having his techniques have nothing to …

• Jun 09, 2017

Or....Love and Death, American Style Someone has to point out the parallels between Brokeback Mountain and Tennesee William's Suddenly Last Summer. Around the time of Wuorinen's *Brokeback Mountain* premiere the …

• Jan 24, 2017

In Mr. Dufallo's book we see how colonialism creates coherence in what was polyglot. Greek culture was a great mishmash of its own colonial movements. The Roman conquest of Greece created the coherence of Greek art as we …

• Jan 02, 2017

Read in German We're following up on the discussion of Unferhofftes Wiedersehen/Unexpected Reunion here with another short, short and closely related story, Greifensee, by Robert Walser. While there is nothing so …

• Nov 30, 2016

I was the on-stage guitarist, with an interesting group of Cuban Dancers in Miami. Choreography by Josee Garante

• Aug 27, 2016

"A language and a style are blind forces; a mode of writing is an act of solidarity.”--Roland Barthes in his essay “Writing Degree Zero”. At the moment, there is little solidarity in the act of composing music. Boulez …