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...
Music and the Vietnam War – songs of politics
In honor of Music Freedom Day, pianist Guy Livingston continues his series on...
Pianos and Politics
When the revolution comes, they’ll be playing drums and singing in the streets. No...