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Tristan and Isolde sweeps me up into its endless despairing crescendo of passion every time I listen to it. I love how Wagner's harmony floats adrift within a chromatic sea of sevenths and ninths...

Of course Cage's 4'22" is sheer perfection. Proof: If you change just one note, the whole thing is ruined. :)

Just heard 18 year old cellist Ivan Karizna play the Quadrille from Shchedrin's "Not Love Alone." Stupendous!! You can hear it on the July 14th broadcast of Performance Today about 22 minutes into...

Well, to each his own taste__though I do think you succeeded in being controversial.

I agree that not all sound is music. But I also agree with Proust, "The voyage of discovery is not seeking new...

Philip Glass is of course a modern tonal composer. It seems his generation of composers has re-embraced tonality and have abandoned serial and other atonal techniques. Actually I think it's...

They truly are astounding paintings. Is it true he used sponges for those instead of brushes?
Sad, if true. Not only does familiarity evaporate the disquiet of older surrealist tropes, it makes...

I think a lot of Dali's earlier work has merit. His later fame and greed corrupted his art. The Sacrament of the Last Supper is in the Smithsonian and the original is a wonder to see. I've a print...

I loved Fowles' The Magus, and then tried a bunch of other novels by him and never made it all the way through any of them.

I generally enjoy Christopher Hitchens' writing, whether I agree with him or not. I do agree with his (and apparently your) assessment of David Mamet. I find Mamet's theater cold and unbelievable. ...

You should check out "Dark Waters" by the modern composer Ingram Marshall.

THE FALL

Parallel rills
Of rain
Ripple through the sheet of water slipping down
My pane
And shimmy downward toward the rotten sill
To cascade over the drop and spill
Loudly into the chill...