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This latest release in the amazing survey series “Music in Exile” by the passionately dedicated ARC Ensemble along with the fine tuned musico-archeological ear of producer Simon Wynberg continues to to pursue their angle on lost, suppressed, neglected music. That music earned its anonymity due to sociopolitical pressures that forced these composers to flee their homes si...


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Composer/musicologist Robert Carl gives his perspective of the “new common practice”, a term which attempts to describe the current state of compositional and performance practices. I first heard that term from Alvin Curran, a composer who indulges (most successfully) in a wide va...


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This photo was taken by me on my iPhone. What caught my eye was the effects caused by the raindrops, and the lighting on this commercial mural just off State Street in Santa Barbara. This (mostly) epitomizes the spirit of the title of this speculative essay.

The embattled National Public Radio in the United States happily (in spite of draconian funding cuts) still pursues...


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