amazon.co.uk (not .com, sadly) has a 22-CD set of pretty much Stravinsky's entire output, almost all conducted by Stravinsky himself, for the astonishing price of 23 pounds (shipping to the US was another 3). It is hard to imagine a better deal. I have been gorging myself all day.

The announcement is boring, that is, not the show. The show will be AWESOME ( Read more... )

For the few people reading this who might be interested, Kyle Gann, excellent composer and journalist, has a good post up on his blog about various types of postminimalism, along with five complete mp3s of pieces or movements, all of them good-to-excellent, all of them by composers I had never heard of. Now that I finally have a portable music ( Read more... )

This time I'm posting a whole two days in advance! We're playing at the SkyBar in Somerville, just down the street from the Porter Square station, at the oh-so-rockin' time of 8:30 ( Read more... )

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I recently realized that there are a fair number of things that I think are totally awesome but never really want to see or hear again, largely through overexposure I guess. That is, any reference to them is more likely to make me roll my eyes and think "Not that again," rather than think "Oh yeah, I love that," even though I do.
My off-the-top- ( Read more... )

Our show will be nice and early (at 9pm), nice and cheap ($5), and nice and convenient (a short walk from the Harvard Square T). We will endeavor to make the performance itself as nice as possible.

The Kirkland Cafe is at 425 Washington St in Somerville, right next to Dali.

Results 1 - 10 of about 647 for "le nozzle di figaro".

to answer questions about books. Hey, I can do that.

One book that changed your life: I'll say Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson and Sussman. since it helped me decide to major in computer science.

One book you have read more than once: I've read Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon, four or five times now. The ( Read more... )

Liza and I were just watching an episode of The Wire on the DVD player. At around 56 minutes, just before the episode was going to end, the screen suddenly went black and the DVD player stopped. Shit, we missed the ending of the episode, which was probably some great cliffhanger! The display just said HOT. We tried ejecting and reinserting, no ( Read more... )