IN The Puritans and Music,Percy A. Scholes (Oxford University Press, $8.50) aims to ‘put an end to the circulation of a calumny.’ The Puritans, he maintains, had no objection to music as a recreation ...
Good news, jazz fans—rhythm saves the world again. The Universal Music Group tentacle labeled "Verve Records" has issued The Complete Decca Singles 1935-1946. Don't be put off by the term "singles." ...
IT has become an irresistible temptation, with me, to ask musicians by what road they came home. Some, like Henry, achieve music by rebellion; their innate musicality flourishes upon negation; a wall ...
John Eaton, a pioneering composer known for his chamber operas and advances in electronic music, died Dec. 2 from a massive brain hemorrhage. Eaton, 80, was professor emeritus in music. A 1990 ...
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Columbus took little notice of Ronald Theodore Kirk when he was born on Aug. 7, 1935, or when he went blind, reportedly because of poor medical treatment two years later. But he could make music — ...