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Flow your ancient tears down the river of time to our modern-sullied blues. Even four centuries before the birth of the blues, John Dowland had the blues,…

What kind of musical thoughts were going through the mind of great Russian composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in the spring of 1866 as he started…

Your cityscapes are such that one can hear big sky between cement notes. It is a delicious musical incongruity that Aaron Copland, the composer who better…

After playing Henry Purcell's Three Parts Upon a Ground, I began to wonder if there was a way to easily explain what a ground is? In short: it's a melodic…

Take our folks songs and our hymns. We trust you are a noble alchemist. It's a little difficult to pin labels on Ralph Vaughan Williams. Was he a…

Your music visits a new key, and another, and yet another . . . If you've ever felt as though you're on a banana peel while listening to Richard Strauss'…

You took first place in life. In death, the immortal J.S. Bach won out. I love it when the world gets it wrong. That’s basically what happened a few…

With Earth Day this week, the 20th Century composer who could be its musical patron saint is Alan Hovhaness. This Thursday's Symphony at 7 will have,…

With the advent of a new baseball season, ones thoughts often turn to...opera? Yes. Though we know baritone Robert Merrill best for his charismatic stage…

ONE AUDIO PIECE The great dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham died on July 26 at the age of ninety. Born in Centralia, Washington, Cunningham…