The culture that is Porirua (New Zealand)
The residents of a small city in New Zealand have been enduring sleepless nights for months due to drivers blasting Céline Dion songs from their cars in the early hours of the morning. According to...
View ArticleBrazilian music bleg
What is new and good in Brazilian music? Say in the last ten years. Any genre. As usual, I thank you in advance for your wise counsel. The post Brazilian music bleg appeared first on Marginal...
View ArticleMy Conversation with the excellent Brian Koppelman
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Brian Koppelman is a writer, director, and producer known for his work on films like Rounders and Solitary Man, the hit TV show...
View ArticleMy favorite non-classical music of the year 2023
I liked these best: Lankum, False Lankum. Claims to be Irish folk music, but has ambient textures and is designed to alienate its core audience. Yaeji, With a Hammer. A mix of English and Korean,...
View ArticleMy classical music listening for the year 2023
2023 has been one of my very best years for classic music listening. I’ve discovered an unusually high number of excellent recordings, and made a lot of progress in understanding many composers...
View ArticleWhy is the quality of recorded classical music so rising? (from my email)
…hypotheses as to why we are blessed with the avalanche of fine new young musicians: 1. (I feel the evidence for this one is conclusive) Technology (e.g. YouTube) allows young musicians anywhere in the...
View Article2023 CWT retrospective episode
Here is the link, here is the episode summary: On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes look back on the past year in the show and more, including the most popular and...
View ArticleRasheed Griffith podcast with Andrew Mellor
Here is the audio and transcript, Mellor is the author of one of my favorite books in recent years The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music & Culture. Excerpt: Rasheed: I’m going to jump...
View ArticleI appear with Nicolas Bejarano on the Art Salon podcast
The Spotify and other links are here, mostly we discuss economics of the arts and thus this differs from many of my recent podcasts. The post I appear with Nicolas Bejarano on the Art Salon podcast...
View ArticleThe Gershwins on free trade (that was then, this is now)
In 1927, George and Ira Gershwin put on a musical satire about trade and war entitled Strike Up the Band. The plot centres around a middle-aged US cheesemaker, Horace J. Fletcher of Connecticut, who...
View ArticleShould AM radios be mandated in cars?
No. Here is my Bloomberg column to that effect, excerpt: Personally, I prefer to listen to XM satellite radio, a paid subscription service. It features channels that appeal to my specific tastes (in...
View ArticleWhat should I ask Coleman Hughes?
I will be doing a Conversation with him, based in part around his new book The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. On Coleman more generally, here is Wikipedia: Coleman Cruz...
View ArticleWhat I’ve been listening to
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View ArticleMy Conversation with the very excellent Masaaki Suzuki
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, we recorded in NYC. Here is the episode summary: A conductor, harpsichordist, and organist, Masaaki Suzuki stands as a towering figure in Baroque music,...
View ArticleHow I listen to music
Ian Leslie writes to me: I’m wondering, have you ever done a post about how you listen to music? Hours per week, times of day, technologies, degree of multi-tasking, etc…and how you choose what to...
View ArticleHow good a song is Quarter to Three?
You know, the 1961 #1 hit by Gary U.S. Bonds? I’ve been thinking about this question for months. I feel a good amount is at stake. If songs such as Quarter to Three (or done live with dancers) are...
View ArticleMaurizio Pollini, RIP
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View ArticleMy review of Suno, AI-generated music
Try it here, click on the right on the mention of making full, two-minute songs and use the Explore tab. To me it is remarkable the resulting AI-generated music is as good as it is. But it still...
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