Review: ‘Pipe Dreams’ Strikes A Competitive Chord
Five competitors attack the keyboards at an international pipe organ competition in Montreal →
Infrasound: The Terrifying Tonality
By Owen Wood As my classmates have been demonstrating in their posts, sound design and music are crucial →
Why is ‘Don Giovanni’ the world’s greatest opera?
By Lawrence Toppman Yes, that title requires an assumption. Because “DG” premiered in Prague 232 years ago next →
Conductor and Composer Raymond Leppard – A Champion Of The Old And The New – Has Died
The British conductor, harpsichordist and scholar helped reignite interest in works by composers like Monteverdi — but he also championed new works and wrote notable film scores of his own. →
“Sing, My Little Pigeon!”: Mr. Hyde and the Musical Uncanny
By Max Lilburn In his 1919 essay The Uncanny, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud theorized that things that are uncanny →