I first met Lara St. John as an artist…well, not exactly. I first came to know this fabulous musician via her recordings of the Bach Violin Concerti and the Solo Violin Music. It was much later that I began to read of her revelations abuse at the hands of her teachers, trusted adults.

For over 40 years I have worked as a psychiatric nurse (still do)...

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...

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

…tell the old story for our modern times. Find the beginning.

-Homer, The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation)

When I first got the email notice of this concert, I was, to say the least, intrigued. A two piano concert at Littlefield Concert Hall on the campus of Mills College featuring two ...