June 25, 2016

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How did Alberti bass become the the main ingredient of a certain style of contemporary composition and what I call sometimes “wallpaper music”? In fact, wallpaper can be rather attractive and I enjoying the look and the feel of the newly wallpapered hallways in our condo building. In a few days it will become just a visual filler and nobody will notice …

June 10, 2016

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My Year of Quartets: serendipity and Kabbalistic numerology (gematria) of the number 4 and its multiples. On May 22 (2+2), four days before my 79th (7+9=16) birthday on May 26 (2+6=8) the Ancia Saxophone Quartet from Minneapolis presented a short excerpt from my new, and only, saxophone quartet entitled “The Center Does Not Hold.” In Berlin, a string quartet has …