On Twitter earlier that StaffPad. A new music notation app for Microsoft Surface, had a likely audience of one Alan Pierson. Or like a musically-oriented Vesper. Maybe it could have some kind of handwriting recognition to clean up the input a bit. Why are pianists always looking at the ceiling. Dismayed, I scanned through a video.

Is a documentary on the Estonian-American orchestral conductor Paavo Jarvi. You will no doubt enjoy. Screening in 1,000 schools in.

This site provides the latest events and current projects as this unique chamber ensemble is highly active in the commissioning of new works. Eclipse Wind Trio is dedicated to establish repertoire through commissions for this unique instrumentation as well as performing for traditional and non-traditional audiences.

Meaghan Burke is a New York-based cellist of many hats. Check out her contemporary classical work in uptown. And her improvisations in out of town.

179 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Courtesy of Exploring The Metropolis. Con Edison Composer-in-Residence Mary Kouyoumdjian.

Attempting to write about music both mine and others. I still get irritated, worked up, and generally feel the need to yell my opinion, but it all feels impotent now. Classical Musicians Should Think More Like Pop Musicians.

Clarinet player, philosopher, activist, and musicologist. I have a lot of questions about art and its ability, or inability, to affect us both psychologically, personally, and politically. In particular, I am interested in how music has, throughout history, been seen as the least and most sincere of the fine arts, identified as both metaphysics and anti-metaphysics.