Fibonacci Heavy Metal
I’ve been asking the candidates who attended one of NYUAD’s weekend visits to suggest pieces of music to help me globalize my iTunes playlists. This suggestion, from Nacif Taousse is so cool that I had...
View ArticleWhaling in Dallas
I’m feeling very twenty-first century at the moment, even though part of my mind is firmly rooted in the nineteenth. That’s because I’m typing this post on an iPad at an altitude of about 32,000 feet,...
View ArticleWinspear Opera House
The Dallas Opera moved into its new home at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House last fall. The building, which is part of the AT&T Performing Arts Center, still has that new-building smell...
View ArticleMoby-Dick the Opera, Part 1
It was definitely worth the trip. The world premiere of Jake Heggie‘s Moby-Dick last night at the Dallas Opera was a stunning operatic experience that I will always remember. Moments after the...
View ArticleSummertime and the Livin’ Ain’t Easy
7:28 a.m. In my neck of the urban jungle, summertime officially begins — well, right now. I’ve got Gershwin George Gershwin‘s melody and DuBose Heyward‘s lyrics going through my head as I write this,...
View ArticleThar She Blows: The Sound of Animals Fighting
I was investigating The Sound of Animals Fighting, a band that Chani suggested in response to my Globalize My Playlist post, and I came across their song “Ahab” from their 2008 album The Ocean and the...
View ArticleRemembering Some Girls and Marquee Moon at McNally Jackson
Bryan Waterman and I celebrated the release of our books for Continuum’s 33 1/3 series last night with a joint reading at the McNally Jackson Books in Nolita. We talked about the ways in which we...
View ArticleSome Girls and the MXR Phase 90
I’ve been listening to the newly released remastered version of Some Girls and enjoying the 12 bonus tracks that accompany it. I’ll be writing about those tracks here in the months to come with the...
View ArticleStill A Prisoner of Rock ‘n’ Roll
I came late to the Bruce Springsteen party. At least, that’s what one of my high school friends told me. He was one of those kids who had painfully “cool” taste in music: he was always talking about...
View ArticleLadies and Gentlemen …
And now, for a message from one of my other obsessions … The biggest news out of the UK today, as far as I’m concerned, was not prime minister David Cameron’s reading of Chapter 30 of Moby-Dick for...
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