All Entries Tagged With: "New Music Box"

Wednesday Links

What’s the first thing you need to do when starting your own country? Create a national anthem of course. Yotam Haber has a crash course in anthem writing at the New Music Box. Here’s a hint: don’t copy Italy.
Prospect has published a list of the top 100 public intellectuals. It appears [...]

Wednesday Links

The Independent reports on David Garrett’s unfortunate tumble down the stairs, the results of which are positively gut-wrenching. It appears as if this time crazy glue and a little WD40 just isn’t going to cut it.

Mark N. Grant over at the New Music Box has a piece on why concert halls still matter. [...]

Friday Links

Loads of wonderful things to link to this morning. Sometimes it’s a shame that there aren’t more hours in the day, or at least less items that are irreparably labelled “need to be done now.”

First thing’s first. Jeremy Denk has a piece up at the NewMusicBox on what he what he likes in [...]

Thursday Links

“Self and the needs of the moment drop away, and we become bewitched by the world’s fascinating aural colours, or if it’s music, by the mysterious order in the notes - which for a moment puts us in order too.” Is listening to music for its own sake such a bad thing?
“How reliant are you [...]