“It’s not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz. ” – Herbie Hancock *** “Sweet Georgia Brown” – The Wynton Marsalis Quintet performing a swinging
Category: Music
Sunday Baroque
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein *** Bach: Concerto for 3 Pianos BWV 1063 III. Allegro (David Fray, J. Rouvier,
Saturday Jazz
“Jazz music is America’s past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.
Sunday Baroque
“A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will
Saturday Ravel – “Bolero”
Ravel had long toyed with the idea of building a composition from a single theme which would grow simply through harmonic and instrumental ingenuity. Boléro’s
Sunday Afternoon Rachmaninoff
“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not
Dispatches from the Asylum 