MMmusing

This perhaps belongs in my " Emptying the Desk Drawer " series, except that the material here has not been sitting around clutteri...

This is a pretty straightforward post, inspired in the usual way. It began three days ago when a young pianist I was coaching in a chamber g...

Somehow in all these years of blogging, I've never written about my obsession with the first movement of Charles-Valentin Alkan's Co...

In my last post , I wrote about a new seven-second snippet written by Mason Bates as a sonic logo for the Charlotte Symphony - and I debute...

Recently, a colleague shared an NPR story  with me about how the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra had commissioned composer Mason Bates to write...