This week, the Live Music Archive collection at the Internet Archive reaches a milestone – 20 years since the collection was started. The roots of the Live Music Archive collection are visible right in the URL – etree. Did you ever wonder what the “etree” in the URL references? In 1998, the etree music community … Read more
The weird thing about being a music writer is that music writing, as a practice, shouldn’t exist. Even when the music in question has words, anyone who’s ever looked up the lyrics to a favorite song can attest to the disconnect between what they read and what they hear, the invisible but monumental gap between … Read more
JUNE 29, 2022 JOHN MAUCERI, founding director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, is a composer, arranger, writer, and educator who has conducted the world’s major opera companies and symphony orchestras. For 18 years, Mauceri worked closely with Leonard Bernstein on many of Bernstein’s premieres. He has championed the work of composers banned by Hitler, in … Read more
The Women’s prize for fiction? It’s not just for women, you know. As the prize’s website is careful to explain, the “largest celebration of women’s creativity in the world” is a celebration to which “everyone” is invited: “We put exceptional quality literature from all over the world into the hands of male and female readers … Read more
Whistler was hard to please. But he would, surely, have been chuffed to find his life-size full-length picture of Joanna Hiffernan – in a white dress against a white curtain – as the centerpiece of an exhibition at the Royal Academy. When, soon after its completion, he submitted the picture for the annual RA show … Read more
Thomas Piketty, the fifty-year old rock star of the international left, gathers in Time for Socialism his monthly columns in Le Monde; and in A Brief History of Equality (Une brève histoire de l’égalité, 2021), he considers the ups and downs of wealth inequality in a few countries over the past 200 years. Piketty’s global … Read more