Matthew Guerreri, whose writings on music I always enjoy and look forward to, heads his latest NewMusicBox column with a quote from 1842: [Richard Monckton] Milnes brought [Thomas] Carlyle to the railway, and showed him the departing train. Carlyle looked at it and then said, “These are our poems, Milnes.” Milnes ought to have answered, “Aye, and our histories, Carlyle.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, … [Read more...]
Archives for 2015
Twixt
The Medieval church. The 18th-century court. The 20th-century university. Artists have to eat, and the ways they have found to put food on the table throughout the ages have provided equivalent fodder for their inspirations. Whether their goal is to elevate a divine entity, a royal personage or scientific inquiry, these arts patrons have dictated, either directly or through habituation, the … [Read more...]
Out With the New
Who needs a new blog? Certainly I don’t – I have no intention of starting a new one. This new blog is an old blog that’s been around since 2005, right around when blogging was becoming ubiquitous. For 9+ years, it resided comfortably on a site devoted to new music. Then, this past fall, it got attacked and destroyed by bots, which are, if you haven’t encountered them, little automated repetitions … [Read more...]