4’33″ or -273°C
A remarkable letter to the editor appeared in this month’s BBC Music Magazine (December 2012: Volume 21, Number 2; pg 8) relating John Cage’s infamous 4’33″ to absolute zero. Rather […]
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Le Violon d’Ingres
This is probably the single most recognizable “cello” images to be found anywhere. I remember first studying Man Ray and the New York Dada in Art History Class and then […]
“The Dawn of Indian Music in the West: Bhairavi”
Found this excellent quote from Peter Lavezzoli’s book, The dawn of Indian music in the West: Bhairavi Well, Western music has been Eurocentric for hundreds of years. When I was […]
Charles Murray and “The Impossibility of Being Nonjudgmental” (part 1)
In Chapter 5, “Excellence and its Identification,” of Charles Murray’s book (Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950) the author writes in the […]
