Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951)Charles Farncombe (1919-2006)Avet Terterian (1929-1994)Mikis Theodorakis (1925)Peter Schreier (1935)Bernd Weikl (1942)Olga Borodina (1963)andAlexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006)Paul Taylor (1930) T.J. Stiles (1964)

In conjunction with the Viola da Gamba Society of America's annual conclave, which is being held this year at Pacific University in Forest Grove, a free concert will take place tonight, July 29th, at the Taylor Meade Performance Arts Center in McCready Hall at 730 pm. In addition to the Portland Viol Consort, performing a s

Rudy Vallée (1901-1986)Frank Loesser (1910-1969)Kenneth Alwyn (1925)Riccardo Muti (1941)andLudwig A Feuerbach (1804-1872)Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)Beatrix Potter (1866-1843)Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957)John Ashbery (1927)

Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)Enrique Granados (1867-1916)Ernő Dohnanyi (1877-1960)Igor Markevitch (1912-1983)Mario del Monaco (1915-1982)Leonard Rose (1918-1984)Carol Vaness (1952) andJoseph Mitchell (1908-1996)Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007)

Bob Kingston's opera blog, dramma per musica, is up and running again. It will be great to read his observations once more. Huzzah!

Serge Koussevitsky (1874-1951)Georges Favre (1905-1993)Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981)Alexis Weissenberg (1929)Anthony Gilbert (1934)Roger Smalley (1943)Angela Hewitt (1958)Mick Jagger (1943)andGeorge Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)Carl Jung (1875-1961)Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Alfredo Casella (1883-1946)Maureen Forrester (1930)andElias Canetti (1905-1994)

Adolphe Charles Adam (1803-1856)Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)Robert Farnon (1917-2005)Ruggiero Ricci (1918)Guiseppe de Stefano (1921-2008)Wilfred Josephs (1927-1997)Peter Serkin (1947)Philippe Hurel (1955)andAlexandre Dumas (1802-1870)Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)Robert Graves (1895-1985)Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)

Franz Berwald (1796-1868)Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (1803-1883)Edouard Colonne (1838-1910)Francesco Cilea (1866-1950)Leon Fleisher (1928)Bernard Roberts (1933)Maria João Pires (1944)Susan Graham (1960)andRaymond Chandler (1888-1959)Vikram Chandra (1961) and from the Writer's Almanac:It was on this day in 1829 that Willi

Hans Rosbaud (1895-1962)Licia Albanese (1913)George Dreyfus (1928)Ann Howard (1936)Nigel Hess (1953)Eve Beglarian (1958)andEdward Hopper (1882-1967)Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Tom Robbins (1936)

Anton Kuerti (1938)Isaac Stern (1920-2001)Cat Stevens (1948)Margaret Ahrens (1950)andHart Crane (1899-1932)Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)Tess Gallagher (1943)Garry Trudeau (1948)

I'll be contributing three articles to the The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd Edition. This new edition will serve as a comprehensive update to the original 1986 edition (eds. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie). The second edition will be published as part of Grove Music Online and as an eight-volume print publi

Gaston Carraud (1864-1920)Déodat de Séverac (1872-1921)Vilém Tauský (1910-2004)Michael Gielen (1927)Nam June Paik (1932)Hukwe Zawose (1938-2003)Carlos Santana (1947)Bob Priest (1951)andFrancesco Petrarca (1304-1374)Pavel Kohout (1928) Cormac McCarthy (1933)

Boyd Neel (1905-1981)Louis Kentner (1905-1987)Robert Mann (1920)Nicholas Danby (1935-1937)Dominic Muldowney (1952)David Robertson (1958)Carlo Rizzi (1960)Mark Wigglesworth (1964)Evelyn Glennie (1965)Russell Braun (1965)andEdgar Degas (1834-1917)Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930)

Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747)Pauline Viardot (1821-1910)Julius Fučík (1872-1916)Kurt Masur (1927)Screamin' Jay Hawkins (1929-2000)R. Murray Schafer (1933)Ricky Skaggs (1954)Tobias Picker (1954)andWilliam Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)Harry Levin (1912-1994)Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933)Hunter S. T

Isaac Watts (1674-1748)Sir Donald F. Tovey (1875-1940)Eleanor Steber (1914-1990)Vince Guaraldi (1928-1976)Peter Schickele (1935)Michael Roll (1946)Dauwn Upshaw (1960) andTheodore Presser Co. tribute to Peter Schickele:www.youtube.com/theodorepresser#p/a/u/1/qskPkyxO3AA

Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a huge fan of Huckins' work with his ingenious Filmusik project. I can't recommend it highly enough for music, film, and theater nuts, or anyone who just wants to have a great time seeing something really original. This should be a brilliant bit of fun, with or without the kid

Antoine François Marmontel (1816-1898)Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003)Bella Davidovich (1928)Bryden Thomson (1928-1991)Geoffrey Burgon (1941)Pinchas Zukerman (1948)Joanna MacGregor (1959)James MacMillan (1959)Helmut Oehring (1961)andJoshua Reynolds (1723-1792)Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)Ginger Rogers (

Ronald Binge (1910-1979)Jack Beeson (1921-2010)Julian Bream (1933)Sir Harrison Birtwistle (1934)Linda Ronstadt (1946)John Casken (1949)Richard Margison (1954)Gérard Lesne (1956)andRembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)Arianna Huffington (1950)

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)Unsuk Chin (1961)andJames McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)Frank Raymond Leavis (1895-1978) Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991)

Sir Reginald Goodall (1905-1990)Carlo Bergonzi (1924)Jeanne Loriod (1928-2001)Per Nørgård (1932)Albert Ayler (1936-1970)Jennifer Smith (1946) andJohn Clare (1793-1864)Isaak Babel (1894-1941)

Anton Arensky (1861-1906)George Butterworth (1885-19116)Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962)Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960)Van Cliburn (1934)Gerd Albrecht (1935)Richard Stolzman (1942)Roger Vignoles (1943)andJulius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC)Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)George Eastman (1854-1932)Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)Pablo Ne

Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836-1896)Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)Nicolai Gedda (1925)Herbert Blomstedt (1927)Hermann Prey (1929-1998)Francis Bayer (1938-2004)Liona Boyd (1949)Suzanne Vega (1960)andE. B. White (1899-1985)Harold Bloom (1930) andFrom the New Music Box: On July 11, 1922, German conductor Alfred Hertz lead the Los Ange

Henri Weiniawski (1835-1880)Carl Orff (1895-1982)Ljuba Welitsch (193-1996)Ian Wallace (1919)Josephine Veasey (1930)Jerry Herman (1931)Arlo Guthrie (1947)Graham Johnson (1950)Béla Fleck (1958)andMarcel Proust (1871-1922)Saul Bellow (1915-2005)Alice Munro (1931)

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)Dame Elizabeth Lutyens (1906-1983)David Diamond (1915-2005)David Zinman (1936)Paul Chihara (1938)John Mark Ainsley (1963)andOliver Sacks (1933)

One of Portland's best young singers, mezzo-soprano Tuesday Rupp, will soon travel East to attend the Institute of Sacred Music/Yale Divinity School. This is a two year program that will result in a Master of Arts in Religion with a music concentration. If you would like to hear Rupp one more time before she leaves, she wil

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)George Antheil (1900-1959)Billy Eckstine (1914-1993)Susan Chilcott (1963-2003)Raffi Cavoukian (1948)Zhou Long (1953)andPhilip Johnson (1906-2005) J. F. Powers (1917-1999)

Congratulations are in order for multi-talented Stephen Marc Beaudoin, who is the new interim managing director of PHAME Academy. SMB has a posting about this on his blog here.

Musical America cites reports from the German press that Kent Nagano is resigning early from the Bayerishe Staatsoper. Here's the jist from MA:German press is reporting that Kent Nagano will step down as music director of the Bayerische Staatsoper. His contract expires in 2013. He has been in the job since 2006 and last ext

The Guardian has filed this report: Mikhail Pletnev charged with child molestation in Thailand.