A music blog written by Rich Brown
The 1960 album Horace-Scope, by The Horace Silver Quintet and released on the Blue Note label, would be my next to final choice in my ongoing game of Desert Island Discs. This is an album I first heard on a cassette tape made for me by a friend who had the record. (I hope the... Continue Reading →
The Bayreuther Festspiele is underway again in Bayreuth, Germany. It is the annual festival of music dramas by Richard Wagner, in the opera house he designed specifically for his works. Wagner contributed a world of innovations to the opera realm, with his concept of a “total work of art” (Gesamtkunstwerk). He sought a single vision... Continue Reading →
Thank you to all who took the time to check in during the month of July and see what I was scribbling regarding American composers. Mike, my musical brother and fellow composer, suggested I write about George Crumb as a tribute to a professor of ours, who recently passed away. If you will forgive me... Continue Reading →
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