My digital turntable is spinning. I have flipped on the magical Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Rob Young, writing in his marvelous new survey of Britain’s “visionary music” of the last one hundred years, Electric Eden, calls the piece, “magisterial…gliding out of the dock like a gigantic galleon.” This […]
Posts Tagged ‘20th century music’
Up on critter creek…
Sunday, August 7th, 2011Dangerous music – Alex Ross, Dr. Pinckney and Me
Friday, April 23rd, 2010Jill and I sat down in the plush seats of the old Fullerton Hall auditorium in the Art Institute of Chicago last night, there to hear New Yorker music critic Alex Ross speak about the intersection of 20th century music and literature. Mr. Ross’ recent book–The Rest is Noise—Listening to the Twentieth Century—which very entertainingly reviewed […]
