A few months ago I posted a graph of my music listening and was asked how I produced that. Andrew Godwin runs a really nice service called LastGraph that creates these graphs based on one’s Last.fm profile data. Of course, what would this be without a new one? (I had to check it out again, of course.) […]
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A musical life ...
This might be the biggest reason I love working from home.
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A music meme: how apropos. I (too) don’t normally pass these on, but this one is quite funny/poignant and, well, musical. (Via Ken) [Disclaimer: I skipped classical. “Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2 No. 2: I. Allegro vivace” is hard to divine by name and it was quite literally every other song.] WHAT DO YOU […]
I decided this year that I wanted more Christmas music in my life. I’ve been asking some friends what their favorite music of the season is and Daniel had a good roundup, so I decided that I should list some of my favorites too. Sufjan Stevens Songs for Christmas Probably my favorite this year, this […]
Jeremy Denk on Brahms’ First Piano Concerto: [P]art of what makes this first movement such a success is the brilliant, instinctive planning of epic events: his narrative, programmatic sense (never mind “absolute music”). The opening orchestral tutti is basically a ternary shape: bluster/lyricism/bluster. That is: a dramatic beginning, then a quiet interlude, and then a […]
