Tim Riley, Music Critic

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• DETERIORATA XIII:1 BERNSTEIN, 50 SHADES, CLIVE JAMES, EE CUMMINGS, BELUSHI April 22, 2013
  # By far the most influential musicology of my young adulthood, steering me towards specialization. # via Open Culture: Leonard Bernstein’s Norton Lectures (1973). See Elitism for Dummies (on Young People’s Concerts, 2005) # via NYRB: Why So Popular? by Tim Parks # Touching yourself” was strictly forbidden in the Parks family. My father was an [...]
• DENK, SCHWARTZ, SEBOK April 8, 2013
  # Jeremy Denk wrote a piece in the current New Yorker about two of his piano teachers, one of whom we shared. A friend wrote to ask about my reaction, so I replied: # “Joseph Schwartz was really quite a terrific teacher, and invested in the idea of teaching on an individual level. We were all [...]
• DUCHAMP WAS HERE March 15, 2013
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• JAGGER, ESCHER, LEIGHTON March 11, 2013
  # Refused at first, then bought three months later. Interview with cartoonist Robert Leighton at Inkspill | Inkspill – New Yorker Cartoonists News. # And this: Mick Jagger to MC Escher, Escher demurs. #   #   # Related articles These hyper-realistic drawings mess with your mind Godel Escher Bach QR Code shadow cube “Isaac Newton [...]
• WE ARE BRADLEY MANNING: Hedges Knocks Press March 8, 2013
  …The cowardice of The New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel and Le Monde, all of which used masses of the material Manning passed on to WikiLeaks and then callously turned their backs on him, is one of journalism’s greatest shames. These publications made little effort to cover Manning’s pretrial hearings, a failure that shows [...]