Tag: John Cage

• Top 40 Over 40.35: Sylvie Courvoisier & Wada Leo Smith Live at Long Play Festival in Brooklyn

  Part of the purpose of this post is to let folks know that I have relocated from Durham NC to Brooklyn NY. While the move was a personal one motivated by the desire to remove the “Long Distance” prefix from a relationship I’ve been in for three and a half years, it comes with some…

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  May 11, 2026

  Music, Top 40 Over 40

  AACM, Aaron Greenwald, Bang On a Can, Billy Hart, Brooklyn, Cecil Taylor, Claws and Wings, David Murray, Durham, Elizabeth C. Adams, Erik Friedlander, John Cage, Long Play Festival, Miles Davis, Music, new-music, Piano, reviews, Steve Lehman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Top 40 Over 40, Trumpet, Wadada Leo Smith, William Parker, writing

• Top 40 Over 40.12: Morton Feldman, Piano and String Quartet

        I’ve listened to lots of records I’ve liked over the last 10 years, but the recording the Kronos Quartet made of this piece is probably my favorite.  It seems remarkable that such a strange thing of beauty could be recorded at Skywalker Sound, George Lucas’s compound in Northern California.  Morton Feldman spent the…

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  May 5, 2013

  Music, Record Reviews, Series of posts, Top 40 Over 40

  Gamelan, John Cage, Modern classical music, Morton Feldman, Orientalism, Stereolab, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Zen