Orion Weiss with the Salzburg Marionettes: Schumann, Debussy
Not sure why this has been sitting around as a draft, but I'm belatedly posting it now; good music is always relevant: Really glad I finally decided to go see and hear the Salzburg Marionette Theatre...
View ArticleSchumann: Papillons, Blumenstück, Novellette; Novaes, Arrau, Sokolov
Since my last post involved some Schumann piano pieces, I thought I should link to some performances of them: Papillons, Op. 2, Guiomar Novaes, piano: Blumenstück, Opus 19 in Db major, Claudio Arrau,...
View ArticleHarmaleighs at Fuller Lodge, Pretty Picture, Dirty Brush
Great concert by indie folk/pop duo The Harmaleighs (Haley Grant, guitar & vocals; Kaylee Jasperson, bass & vocals) Halast night (Feb. 19) at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos, accompanied by Mike (?)...
View ArticleEnsembl Mitdvest: Muczynski, Bach, Birtwistle, and Dvorak at Kastelskirken,...
At Kastelskirken in the Kastellet fort in Copenhagen today (19.11.2017) a wind quintet drawn from the Danish Ensembl MidtVest played Robert Muczynski's woodwind quintet, opus 45; J. S. Bach's Partita...
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De Guise-Langlois & Morgenstern Trio in Messiaen's Quartet for the End of...
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018, at the Leo Rich theater in the Tucson Convention Center, I heard two of the best chamber music performances I've ever heard. As part of the 25th Tucson Winter Chamber...
View ArticleThe greatness of Cecil Taylor (1929-2018)
Cecil Taylor, one of the most important musicians of our time, and one of the pioneers of what is roughly called "free" or avant-garde jazz, died on April 5, 2018, at 89 years old. Ben Ratliff has...
View ArticleWhat's wrong---and what's right---about quantum parallelism as an explanation...
I couldn't help crying "Nooo!!!!" on Twitter to the following statement by Pierre Pariente, "Strategic Analyst chez L’Atelier BNP Paribas," from a 2015 article "Quantum Computing Set to Revolutionize...
View ArticleMargaret Bonds: pianist composer, and teacher
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) was a pianist, composer, and teacher of music. I probably first became aware of her as a teenager, through some of her arrangements of spirituals for "classical" voice,...
View ArticleJoe Jackson
Joe Jackson was initially associated with the ``New Wave" of pop/rock music of the late 1970s and early 1980s (Blondie, the B52s, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, etc…) that followed quickly...
View ArticleStrongly Symmetric Spectral Convex Sets are Jordan Algebra State Spaces
The title of this post is also the title of my most recent paper on the arXiv, from 2019, with Joachim Hilgert of the University of Paderborn. The published version is titled Spectral Properties of...
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