Swimming, horses & Our Lady
An old one this, but still one of my favourite photographs – from Malta, November 2008.
The fiction of a ‘music industry’
It’s always bugged me that you see the term ‘music industry’ referred to in the press (usually by a representative of it) as if it were a single phenomenon. If…
Taruskin on ballet music
One of the excitements of this year is being able to afford a volume of The Oxford History of Western Music. I snapped it up in Blackwells the other day,…
Why we need Stonewall
Out from Stonewall, FIT, a movie for schools to help combat homophobic bullying. And from me, a related rant. To help with an essay on gender, music & ballet, a…
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)…