November can be a pretty drab month. By the end of the first week, your… Read the postWeek 182: “November” by Max Richter
As well as looking strikingly similar to the cover art of an Iron & Wine… Read the postWeek 172: “Symphony #1 in E flat major, Op. 28 – 3. Quasi Fantasia (Grave)” by Max Bruch
Most of the time, procrastination is a bad thing. But I’d like to suggest that… Read the postWeek 162: “The Death Of Ase” by Edvard Grieg
The term “staycation” may not have surfaced until 2003, but the dynamic songwriting duo of… Read the postWeek 158: “Manhattan” by Ella Fitzgerald
Mozart’s death has spawned more theories than probably any other event in the history of… Read the postWeek 142: “Lacrimosa” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I would love to tell you that I discovered this piece because I was researching… Read the postWeek 125: “Symphony #5, Third Movement” by Dmitry Shostakovich
This is one of those pieces of music that everybody knows. If you’ve ever been… Read the postWeek 114: “Orchestral Suite #3 in D, Air” by Johann Sebastian Bach
At some point, as the 1800s became the 1900s, the lion’s share of the world’s… Read the postWeek 103: “Symphony No. 9, II: Largo” by Antonin Dvorak
A lot of people find baroque music to be a bit showy, a bit too… Read the postWeek 83: “Sonata VII” by Johann Rosenmuller
Since June is graduation time, I’d like to nominate this song for valedictorian of the… Read the postWeek 58: “The Unanswered Question” by Charles Ives
I think that some instruments were created for a specific purpose. The electric guitar, for… Read the postWeek 37: “Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 49” by Dmitry Kabalevsky
Though I recognize Bjork’s talent, I find it difficult to make it through an entire… Read the postWeek 16: “New World” by Bjork