Category Archives: Music

Visualized: What have I been listening to? ...

27Oct2009 Leave a comment
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.) Always an inter­est­ing view.

A musical life ...

16Jun2009 2 Comments
This might be the biggest rea­son I love work­ing from home.

Last Exit ...

12Jan2009 Leave a comment
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 LIKE IN A [...]

Favorite Christmas albums ...

17Dec2008 6 Comments
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 is actu­ally a [...]

Reflections on Brahms’ D minor Piano Concerto ...

23Sep2008 Leave a comment
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 [...]
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