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My new year at St Marks

 On January 1st St Marks Poetry Project holds a marathon reading going from afternoon to night. My friend Steven Hall said he has been in this event every year since he was 17! I have done this with...

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Avant-garde becomes classic: Juilliard does John Cage

I remember about 10 years ago having animated discussions about John Cage with a Juilliard trained musician who was convinced that Cage’s music was a hoax, a joke, nothing to be taken seriously. I told...

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Music, plants and modern warfare

Plants used to thrive with Mozart, and wither to the sounds of rock music. But plants changed. Here is an actual report from a fifth-grader from the Mini-Science web site: “I did the project entitled...

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Teens not into classical? CMS proves otherwise.

Through a presentation at Chamber Music America by Norma Hurlburt, executive director of the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center, I became aware of a surprising youth program involving high school...

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Department store borrows from Mozart’s Requiem

I accidentally came across a rather humorous department store commercial for some special sale. It showed actors screaming with exaggerated joy or awe… to the contrasting accompaniment of a few bars of...

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Nutshell on emptiness

Is the universe full or empty? What does it mean to meditate on emptiness? The buddhist concept of emptiness can be deceiving – nothing is actually empty at all… like a Buddhist hot dog, one with...

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Spiral Wave and natural geometries

SPIRAL WAVE is a multi-arts project originally conceived and produced by Carolyn Ratcliffe, and programmed by the Art Loisaida Foundation, bringing together artists from different fields on the theme...

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Sweep Up for Arthur’s Landing

After the album release last year and some performances in Europe, Arthur’s Landing  opened to new creative avenues,  resulting in a branching out of some group members into new  groups. The new...

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Terry Riley Style-Free at Carnegie Hall

My first encounter with Terry Riley’s music was through a recording called A Rainbow in a Curved Air in 1969 (I was still in college in Paris studying economics and doing a rock band). It is a layered...

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Coolness of social media in question

Since the beginning, I have secretly questioned the ramifications of a participation in social media. How much do I want to ‘share’?  I have had a Facebook page for a few years, and a minimal...

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