Laurie Niles, an LA freelancer, writes violinist.com, essential reading for strings players. One day she got a call from her local band: … In late February, I received an e-mail from a personnel director whom […]
These “Complete String Quartets” by American composer John Zorn aren’t really string quartets – at least not in the traditional sense. These are, more accurately, a collection of 8 named pieces for string quartet. (There is […]
Jews will go to synagogues tonight with heavy hearts. No year has been harder in living memory. No answers are expected with confidence. Here are some points of musical contemplation. The post Music for a […]