Musicology, music & terror
Really wonderful article on musicology and music-as-torture, by Suzanne Cusick. Musicology, Torture, Repair in Radical Musicology.
Chout-ed and booted
Another cautionary tale for choreographers: Alexey Miroshnichenko’s new (kind of )work for NYCB The Lady with the Little Dog is onto its second score (this time around, by Rodion Shchedrin)…
What Grove didn’t tell you…
What a treat: from the Electronic Musical Review, the entire, unexpurgated text of Philip Brett & Elizabeth Wood’s Lesbian and Gay Music that was edited down to just 2500 words…
When Tchaikovsky danced with Saint-Saëns
And I don’t mean figuratively, either. Apparently, in 1875, Tchaikovsky (aged 35) and Saint-Saëns (aged 40) who had a ‘natural talent’ for ballet as well as liking it, got up…
Carmen, the habañera and El Arreglito
It wasn’t until a friend mentioned it recently (thanks Eddie) that I discovered that the most famous bit of music by Bizet, the Habañera from Carmen, isn’t actually by Bizet…
1984 comes to 2010 – schools, IT and BETT
Spent the afternoon at BETT yesterday, a trade show for educational technology. One reason for going was to drop in on Andrew Holdsworth’s Percy Parker’s Flying Bathtub, just published by…