Jazz Endings in Ponce
During the Cold War we called Ponce's endings, "jazz endings". This sonata proves Ponce's set class consciousness definitively. This is the ending of the last movement, the third movement. Arriving at major I is enriched …
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Manuel Ponce's Sonata for Guitar and Harpsichord and Schoenberg 4th String Quartet
Polemic revionists, or revisionist polemicists lately argue, "no to Schoenberg, yes to Sibelius!" No to Schoenberg, yes to Sibelius! I'm saying here, yes to Schoenberg and yes to Manuel Ponce. I do not argue with Milton …
Trevor Bača and Paul Griffith's *when the time comes*
announcing *when the time comes* by actor and Cygnus by composer Trevor Bača and writer Paul Griffiths
The Mind of Two: Gleanings of The Last Boykan Student
The Mind of Two Boykan's Diptych is now in the can at Oktaven Studios and I'm still glowing. Great thanks to Oktaven Studios; Ryan Streber, producer; Scott Wheeler, producer; Susan Schwalb, Tara Helen' O'Connor, flute; …
Capricious Narratives
depicted -- Adalbert Stifter The postmodernists dislike grand narratives. It occurred to me that this objection has caused a flood of capricious narratives that are often annoying. Perhaps what feels like toxic …