Fragments

David and Peter Brewis' last release as Field Music , 2010′s majestic Field Music (Measure) , was the brothers' most accessible, most coherent, and best album so far. Read More

The first song I ever learned how to play on the guitar was the Oscar Meyer Wiener song, self-taught by way of painstaking plucking of each individual note. Read More

If Pete Townshend's "Lifehouse" project never actually comes to a full realization, he's at least prepared to watch it grow through various stages in his lifetime. Read More

Like Léon Theremin, an electro-acoustic pioneer and inventor whom the Soviets put to work developing surveillance technology, Daphne Oram seems like a star-crossed figure-- a visionary tripped up by circumstance and, perhaps, her own eccentricities. Read More

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Read More

What was not to love about Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's succulent dance foray among the hallmark composers known as the three B's -- Bach, Beethoven and Brahms? Read More

Back in October 2010, I posted twice ( here and here ) about a little-known Art Blakey session recorded in May 1956 in New York for The Cool Voice of Rita Reys , a Dutch singer. Read More

You could say that no two LPs by venerated-yet-underrated Scottish avant-rock artist Richard Youngs sound alike, and in the main you'd be right. Read More

The piano at the Artists Quarter took a beating last weekend (even broke a string) but it was all in the name of monstrous talents from near and far, and the AQ's keyboard showcase" continued into midweek. Read More