Today’s miscellany is all about music. So if you don’t dig on tunes, you can go ahead and stop reading right now. But then, if you don’t dig on tunes, we can’t possibly be friends, which means you wouldn’t be reading this blog anyway.
“I played Carnegie Hall twice before I was 13,” says Saul Chandler. “If I could forget about music I would.”
Speaking of Carnegie Hall performances: “At one point, an older woman approached the stage, took off a shoe, and banged it on the stage, imploring the ensemble…to stop.”
And speaking of disastrous openings, there’s a new recording of Brian Ferneyhough’s La Terre Est Un Homme. You can listen to a live performance from 2011 here. (You’re gonna want to turn up the volume.)
And speaking of revolutionary radicals, want to take a stab at guessing who “the most perfectly original composer of the past 200 years” might be? Would you believe…Debussy? Me neither.
