The following has been excerpted from What Is Hip? The Life and Times of The Tragically Hip by Marc Shapiro, which tells the story of the renowned Canadian rock...
Musical beginnings
When I was a boy, my idea of great music and literature was South Pacific and the other Broadway shows of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Later,...
Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier (24)” streams at 29 percent volume while I write this. My go-to writing music, Baroque, floats wave-like above and below my co...
My wife and I just finished watching the final episode of Downton Abbey, the "Masterpiece" TV drama about life in an English country manor circa 1920, which...
Bass frequencies from a massive sound system pulse in my body and seem to shake the concrete walls of a cavernous warehouse somewhere in Brooklyn. There's a...
I don’t know the name of the selection or the pianist performing it. When the simple jazz improvisation came over my radio one afternoon, almost instinctive...
Music is an integral part of contemporary culture worldwide. Many people, especially youth, form their identities around the type of music they prefer, letting ...
Mid-August marked the public release of innovative multimedia artist Brice Salek's latest project, "Avant-Garde Meditations," The project consists of eight ...
