The French Connection (Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Gershwin) Mozart, Mostly (His view of the Bachs and M. Haydn; Schnittke’s view of him!) In this season of “change” we began the fall with three concerts at […] Read more

Music of the homophonic-melodic style of composition, that is, music with a main theme, accompanied by and based on harmony, produces material by, as I call it, developing variation. This means that variation of the […] Read more

“In the course of time the distance between sources diminishes. Beethoven, for instance, did not need to study all that Mozart studied–Mozart, not all that Handel–Handel, not all that Palestrina–because they had already absorbed the knowledge […] Read more