Genuine Poetry
Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, shares this on art, the true and the beautiful…
View ArticleVisit to the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia
In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the most-performed living composer in the world, and his life and work played a key role in the development...
View ArticleCredo: One Year Later
Reflecting on the decision to pursue my vocation in art, service, and simple living
View ArticleTuning in to the State of the Theory Podcast
Hannah Fitzpatrick and Anindya Raychaudhuri discuss a topical podcast that covers politics, power, and pop culture
View ArticleThe Signature Hard Bop Tune that was Recorded On This Day in 1958
Fifty-nine years ago, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded Moanin' for Blue Note Records
View ArticleArvo Pärt on Life and Music
Selected quotations from the composer's speeches and interviews
View ArticleCredo: Why I Have Decided to Change the Way I Live
On leaving an academic career to pursue my vocation in art, writing, and simple living
View ArticleA Listener’s Guide to Free Improvisation
John Corbett on a new pocket-sized field guide to free and spontaneous music
View Article“When you seek from almost nothing”: Arvo Pärt’s Musical Diaries
In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer discusses the significance of his personal diaries to the formation and development of his music.
View ArticleArvo Pärt on the Impact of Coronavirus
In a new interview, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt suggests what the coronavirus might mean for society and the arts.
View ArticleKrzysztof Penderecki, 1933-2030
“I’m always looking for something new. I don’t like to repeat myself. I want always to find something which is fresh.” — Krzystof Penderecki Polish composer and conductor 1933-2020
View ArticleDon Cherry, born on this day in 1936
“When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.” — Don Cherry, born on this day in 1936.
View ArticleCamille Jacobson on Patti Smith’s Year of the Monkey
"A reflection on mortality, the book retains Smith’s characteristically flat tone as she wanders through stretches of Arizona, California, Virginia, and Kentucky..."
View ArticleNick Cave on Writing Trauma
"I felt very strongly that the communal suffering, and our ability to transcend it, was the thing that held us together."
View ArticleGiya Kancheli, 1935-2019
“When I compose music, I don’t focus on the everyday collisions of life. I want to see it as a bird in flight, from a height, from an angle.” Sad to learn that the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli died...
View ArticleRadio On: An Existential Road Movie for Our Troubled Times
As we enter a new phase of social, political and economic uncertainty, Christopher Petit's 1979 film Radio On has a new relevance.
View ArticleDavid Lynch on Making Music in the 1990s
“David Lynch relives his days in Thought Gang, the band whose music was even wilder than his movies” — The Guardian.
View ArticleCat Power on John Coltrane’s Crescent
"Again, it’s like going to church whether you want to or not. If you know it, you’ll know what I’m talking about. It’s just beautiful. Beautiful’s the only word I can say." — Chan Marshall
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