By fortuitous serendipity one Autumn evening in 1799, British traveler Edward Daniel Clarke, passing...
Author
Norman Cahn
“[Polystylistics] … creates new possibilities for the musico-dramatic embodiment of ‘eternal’ proble...
Author
Norman Cahn
From the 17th to the early-19th century, one might liberally classify a composer and his or her work...
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Norman Cahn
For those who fear an impending “rise of the machines,” REACT (Ravello Records) offers some reassura...
Author
Norman Cahn
Explosive tendrils of electricity branching chaotically from the edges of a coin is the image of Éti...
Author
Norman Cahn
In today’s eclectically-aural world, rarely is a reviewer afforded the opportunity to rectify the mi...
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Norman Cahn
It has been 81 years since the premiere of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. The opera’s then-controversial...
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Norman Cahn
The debate between absolute and programmatic music has been a point of contention for several centur...
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Norman Cahn
Confronted with the title “A Space Odyssey,” memories of HAL 9000’s all-knowing red gaze and my own...
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Norman Cahn
Marcel Proust, his memory kindled by a simple madeleine cookie, characterizes my musical experience...
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Norman Cahn
Founded by students of the Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama in 2001, the Dublin Guitar Quartet...
Author
Norman Cahn
