Keys of Change: Lenya & Weill
Tonight’s show revolves around Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill, who were not overtly political...
Tag Archives: Charles Ives
Keys of Change: Ives & Nancarrow
Political lives, musical lives. A series on ten American musicians whose work was/is profoundly...
Podcast: Short Cuts
Time is completely variable, as Einstein theorized, and as these miniatures prove. In this...
Podcast: New England Landscapes
Three Triptychs!
Landscapes: Men and Mountains
Music of Alan Hovanness, Carl Ruggles, Bernard Hermann, and the Ives Brothers: that’s Charles...
A New England Podcast
My grandmother, Helen McGoldrick, retired to New England, and lived first in Great Barrington,...
A Reflective Patriotism
Can music be patriotic without being bombastic? Must all patriotic music (think Star Spangled...
Animals: Predator and Prey
Part 1 of a series on animals: Cats, Mice, Peacocks, a sick Eagle, a dead...
Water Music for Earth Day
In this episode of American Highways, we hear the Wind in the Willows, Seaweed’s...
Rothko: Silence & Solitude
American artist Mark Rothko created a radical style which continues to influence painting and...