A music blog written by Rich Brown
The other Russian films that I have spent time with recently, are both adapted from Shakespeare plays. The tragedies and comedies of William Shakespeare have garnered a lot of my attention in recent weeks. There are dozens of well done film versions of the Bard’s works, but some very smart person turned me on to... Continue Reading →
Part IV I had difficulty narrowing down my choice for the fourth and final entry in this series on string quartets. There is so much music written for four strings, and the majority of it seems indispensable to me. Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Ravel, Debussy all wrote masterpieces for the genre. Charles Ives, Samuel Barber,... Continue Reading →
The twentieth century in music brought in a modern world that was fragmented in many directions at once. Thanks to recording technology, it was a musical world that was preserved for us to still hear today. Before the twentieth century, the only ways to preserve music was to write it down as best as possible,... Continue Reading →
Good Music Speaks 