Mixed Meters

Much to their credit, Ring Festival LA has done a great deal to reinforce the image of Richard Wagner as an anti-Semite. This was probably n...

I've recently read a few descriptions of the music of Richard Wagner which struck me as true. Although these were not actually intended...

This was going to be part of Kenton Wagner , the previous post.  Then I decided that, when speaking of Wagner, brevity is a virtue.  So this...

This is the first of two posts about how composer Richard Wagner has inspired popular music.   Jump to the other one. A few posts back I w...

I recently finished reading the third book of the trilogy by Michael H. Kater about musical life in Nazi Germany.  His three books are: Di...

Today is Memorial Day, in which we remember those who have died in wartime. I took this picture in South Pasadena. There are plaques for...

Today is the first performance of L.A. Opera's complete production of Richard Wagner's endless four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibe...

Mixed Meters returns to the airwaves with my Jingle Bells-related musical offering for the 2009 holiday season. Listen to A Combination of ...

I doubt there is a stranger coincidence among musicians' names than that of Francesco Zappa and Frank Zappa .  Francesco was an 18th ce...