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From Haven's debut CD on Wergo ..read more

Hollaender's scalding satire of antisemitism appeared in his Spuk in der Villa Stern revue of 1931. The lyrics are here, though they lose some of their bite in translation ..read more

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The astonishing life of Dika Newlin, who would have been one hundred today, can hardly be summarized in a couple of sentences. Some years back, Donna Arnold wrote a wonderful piece about her for NewMusicBox ..read more

Lentz's Violin Concerto, “…to beam in distant heavens…,” had its première at the Sydney Symphony in April, with Umberto Clerici conducting and Arabella Steinbacher undertaking the monumental solo part. In other Lentz news, the Cobar Sound Chapel is now up and running in the Australian Outback ..read more

New and recent publications of interest. Jeremy Eichler, Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance (Knopf) Jeffrey Arlo Brown, The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey: Delirium and Form (University of Rochester Press) Harald Kisiedu and George E. Lewis, eds., Composing While Black: Afrodiasporische Neue Musik Heute / Afrodiasporic New Music Today (Wolke Verlag) Fiona Maddocks, Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile (Pegasus) Bonnie Gordon, Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds  (University of Chicago Press) Mark Hugh Malone ..read more

    Gaunt in gloom,     The pale stars their torches,     Enshrouded, wave.     Ghostfires from heaven's far verges faint illume,     Arches on soaring arches,     Night's sindark nave...                             James Joyce, "Night Piece ..read more

I interviewed the sublime Slonimsky two years later, for my college radio show. He reminisced about the day in 1917 when someone told him some kind of revolution was happening in the streets of Petrograd. He went outside, walked around, saw nothing, and went back to practicing the piano ..read more

See also Henry Koster's Music for Millions (1944 ..read more