Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
This got me thinking of two things I learned from Allen Ginsberg, whom I briefly met 15 years ago after he read and sang to a large group at my alma mater: (1) William Blake’s poems are meant to be sung. Ginsberg performed some of Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience” with a slightly slobbery [...]
This image via Slog, the blog of The Stranger, “Seattle’s only newspaper,” which is edited by Dan Savage. Apparently, they will now be dropping the star system from their album reviews. It’s a move in the right direction. Whether in a formal class setting or informal conversation, I’ve always tried to point out that we [...]
If more and more people want to participate in a given institution, the institution had better welcome the new energy or risk crumbling. Preventing large emerging groups of people from participating in “marriage” will ultimately do for marriage what keeping large groups of emerging musics from participating in music education did for music education programs. [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
