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Here are four things I guess you need to know about my piece entitled Not A Happy Camper .   Or not. 1) The title is misleading. Any not...

Long ago, SO long ago that I don't remember when or where it happened, someone told me that the most important thing about getting my mu...

I was fascinated recently by a radio interview with author Charles C. Mann who talked about his book  1493 .  It covers the social and ecol...

Milton Babbitt probably did care if you listened. He didn't choose the title of his famous article called "Who Cares If You Liste...

Yesterday seemed to be a day for doses of musical academia - first when I unscrambled anagrams  using clues gleaned by skimming  this post b...

I have completed and posted my fifth Season, entitled Winter 2012 .  This is the second Winter in the series.  The entire series, unsurprisi...

As a Mixed Meters occasional feature we present pictures of musically named products and companies. Or maybe it's a bug.  Either way, i...

Can you use the human body as a percussion instrument?  Sure - hit it and it will make a little sound.  The body is just a big sack of meat ...

American culture is just chock full of fun holidays which combine the celebration of competition with crass consumerism. For example ther...

On the fifty-seventh anniversary of his birth, I'd like to write about Arthur Jarvinen's longest piece of music. Possibly anyone...

This is the second of two blog posts on Arthur Jarvinen's gigantic solo piano masterpiece Serious Immobilities .   You might want to rea...