Mixed Meters

Last week the Los Angeles Times interrupted its continuous coverage of the Academy Awards to run a Mark Swed review of a recent  Los Angele...

We're having a serious drought in California, so when it rained here in Pasadena last Saturday most everyone was pleased.  The only poss...

I note, with great sadness, the passing of John Bergamo. John was the percussion instructor at CalArts when I was a student. Here's a p...

Music, at its best, is a mystery for the listener. A dose of uncertainty about exactly what is happening on stage can turn an average perfo...

Here are videos by Tim Minchin . I had never heard of him until yesterday. He's an Australian living in Britain.  He has unkempt red ...

Sergey Kuryokhin passed away in 1996 at the age of 42.  He was an avant-garde improvising pianist from the Soviet Union.  Apparently he did...

Here are some video links with one thing in common. All involve a piano and none of them involve a cat and all are kind of funny. Well, I ...

My buddy Roger Lebow has a strange malady - every ten years, when the second digit of his age number turns to zero, he throws himself a big ...

Imagine my surprise to see an announcement that Art Tatum (1909-1956) would be performing live in a few days. This was in a consumer elect...

Skip to the video of Vinny Introducing Me Skip to recordings of the Golia LaBerge Ocker Trio Skip to a new 30 Second Spot The Nurkle (for ...

Here are three things I've run across lately. They seem to relate. A News Article about Classical Music Offsets Musical Compositions Ba...

Today it was a positive shock to read the Los Angeles Times obituary of flutist Dorothy Stone , one of the pillars of the California EAR Uni...

California will hold a strange Presidential primary election Tuesday. Strange because the nominee is not already a foregone conclusion. We...