lies like truth

Reading about the British Government's poetry recitation initiative for school children,  Poetry By Heart ,  in The Guardian over the...

I hate iTunes. It's official. Organizing my digital music collection has always been tricky. Many of the recordings I own aren't...

It's no surprise that Mario Testino's photographs, some of the most iconic of which are currently on display at the Museum of Fine...

People in this country can't get enough of old world traditions at this time of year. Events like The Bracebridge Dinner , a high-en...

One fascinating outlet for the analysis of visual art in today's pop culture landscape is Ink Master .  I caught an episode of the r...

Blue Heron is a high-endy early music-oriented vocal ensemble based in Boston whose members have sung with the likes of Sequentia and Cha...

I can't imagine a more wonderful place to experience the "musical theatre" of John Cage than in the new concert space at Bos...

Last weekend in Davis, CA, I had the pleasure of interviewing Aaron Humble and Adam Reinwald of the Cantus men's chorus based in the ...

Of all the arts, the cinema has traditionally been the most passive from the audience's perspective. We stare at the screen, and any r...

Slipstream Strategy founder  Tamsin Smith  who blogs for The Huffington Post just wrote a great piece about singing -- and specifically a...

I've been thinking about how much audiences seem to value the element of spontaneity in their musical experiences -- and how much this...

When most people think of El Sistema, the amazing Venezuelan-born music education program that's transforming the way in which many co...

Cultural industry workers who happened to attend  Clas/sick Hip Hop  at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend, would very like...

Cal Performances is hosting a two-day conference about music education centering on El Sistema, the lauded Venezuelan approach. The confe...

Sasha Frere-Jones' recent article in The New Yorker about the British songstress Paloma Faith’s entrée into the United Stat...