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sarge
Marianne knew the touring schedule better than she knew her own dental appointments. Long before official announcements appeared, she could predict where the band might go next by studying venue […]
Totalitarianism Colonizes Perception
Orwell’s line from Nineteen Eighty-Four is often understood politically, but it also has musical resonance: The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was […]
cheese cubes and consciousness
Rose, a violinist, first noticed the pain during a Mahler rehearsal. Small sharpness in her left foot, insignificant enough to ignore and yet impossible to forget once discovered. By the […]
unconquered
There is a story that Stalin requested a recording of a Mozart concerto which Maria Yudina had performed live, only to discover none existed. The orchestra and technicians were summoned […]
maps to places nobody remembers
Part of being a musician is periodically lobbing your little paper airplane over impossible fences just to see where it lands. Sometimes it drops immediately into a decorative fountain. Sometimes […]
weather systems
A week before the concert, the promoter called. Ticket sales were soft. The promoter explained the numbers. Rent. Advertising. Staffing. Guarantees. The possibility of losing money hovered over the conversation […]
perfect acoustics
He became a janitor gradually, reluctantly, and after exhausting all fantasies involving sudden recognition. For years he had assembled a life from coffeehouse gigs, teaching lessons, wedding receptions, and the […]
POEM
I’ve counted you infor the last time. Not out of anger.Not because the songs were bad.Not because the miles were too longor the hotel carpets too ugly. Something quieter happened. […]
possessed something else
For most of his career he understood the boundaries of his instrument. He built a modest reputation on conviction. His voice carried the weathered authority audiences expected from a middle-aged […]
“challenging” and “idiosyncratic”
The booking agent had spent thirty years predicting public taste. She knew which singer-songwriters could fill two hundred seats in Peterborough on a Thursday and which folk trios would fail […]