Blog 14. Tchaikovsky – Ballets I – Swan Lake
The next two blogs are about Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his three most famous ballets, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and the Nutcracker. This blog will…
TAS Superdisc
Blog 13. TAS Super Discs – Film Music by Miklos Rozsa
Harry Pearson, better known as HP, founded The Absolute Sound (TAS) in the early 1970’s. By the fourth issue he had already started to change…
Blog 7. Do French Composers write the best Spanish Music?
First, what is Spanish (or German, or Italian, or American, etc) classical music. Before sometime in the 19th Century, it was quite difficult to associate…
Blog 4. Puccini – Tosca “that shabby little shocker”
The famed critic and music pedant Joseph Kerman coined “that shabby little shocker” phrase for Tosca in his book “Opera as Drama”, a book I…