Tag Archives: A-to-Z 2013

I really don’t know nearly as much about lyric opera as I think I probably should. I’m not sure why that is, as its characteristics really seem to line up with what I look for in art: interesting people in … Continue reading →

I really have very little to go on with this piece. I’ve never heard it until as I’m writing this, and I’ve never heard of this composer, either. I got nothin’, folks! Masao Ohki was a Japanese composer who lived … Continue reading →

I like randomness in music. It’s fun to hear works that are literally different each and every time they are played. Of course, there’s a sense in which all works are different each and every time they are played; the … Continue reading →

I haven’t heard much of Olivier Messiaen’s music. I have a recording of his massive Turangalila Symphony that I haven’t played in well over a decade, and I’m not sure I’ve ever owned a recording of the work on tap … Continue reading →

Wow…I’m kind of late to the game with today’s post. Sorry, but I just had a really unmotivated evening. It happens. Anyway, here we go, with another piece that I’ve never heard before, but by a composer that I have: … Continue reading →

Time for an experiment, as promised yesterday: a work that I have never heard before, by a composer I’d never heard of until yesterday. The composer? Andres Isasi. Who is he? Well, here is the biographical information on Isasi from … Continue reading →

No, not the former boy band from the 1990s. We’re talking about composer Howard Hanson (1896-1981), one of the more important American musical figures of the 20th century. A great deal of American musical culture over the last half century … Continue reading →

I couldn’t decide which ‘G’ composer to do, so since it’s my blog, I’m doing both! Percy Grainger was the very first composer I encountered when I got to college. I’d never heard of him before, but there on the … Continue reading →