Mixed Meters

I was in my early thirties when I first encountered anything served in aspic . I had gotten a job doing revisions to a large symphonic pie...

House is a soap opera .  Of course it's not really an "opera" in the musical sense nor is it sponsored by a soap company.  It...

Last fall I attended an LA Philharmonic performance of a large work for chorus and orchestra - Graffiti by composer Magnus Lindberg .  The...

Certain instruments, a violin, say, or a guitar, have specialized varieties which become associated with particular people, usually a perfor...

Mixed Meters has had several on-going photo series. For example, there was Fallen Avocados ,  Blank Wall and Bunnies and Balloons .  No, t...

On the corner of Hill Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena there used to be a Ford dealership.  It was called Pasadena Ford.  When it ...

Last night I came across the nine-minute 1956 movie Design for Dreaming .  This particular bit of Fifties Futurism is a big-budget General M...

A couple weeks ago, in the middle of the night, I flipped on the kitchen television to one of those overnight news shows. I found no news. ...

Art Jarvinen's birthday was January 27. He would have been 55 this year. I once mentioned to him that he shared his birthday with Wolfg...

Last summer I wrote my own program notes for Short Ride In A Fast Machine .  The notes explain why.  Afterwards there's a short Q&A...

A New York Times music critic is spending his time picking the "ten top Classical composers of all time. "  He's seeking the ...