toe-shoes and guit-fiddles
I went to a couple of great shows in Austin recently, Ballet Austin’s The Mozart Project and Austin Classical Guitar Society’s Austin Pictures. The story is over on NMB…
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October 14, 2011
October 8, 2011
Musiqa Songs
I headed over to Houston recently to see Musiqa’s first concert of the season. Fantastic stuff! The story is over on New Music Box.
September 20, 2011
Torke CD review
Hey folks,
Here’s a link to my recent review of Michael Torke’s newest album Tahiti on New Music Box. I’ll be reviewing a number of concerts in Austin and Houston in the next few weeks, so check back for all the knowledge.
September 4, 2011
Austin Chamber Music Festival
The end of August is primarily about living in denial of the coming semester. To that end I put off any number of things including linking to my New Music Box story on the Austin Chamber Music Festival. <— check it out here
July 25, 2011
NMB – Texas Performing Arts Receives $450,000 Mellon Grant
Hello folks,
Here’s a link to a recent New Music Box article about a bunch of money Texas Performing Arts is going to get for new music!
July 22, 2011
New Music Box
A few months ago I got an email from Robert Honstein asking if I would be interested in writing an article about the Fast Forward Austin Festival for New Music Box. This was about as out of the blue as it could have been for at least two reasons:
- The other FFA directors, Ian Dicke and Steve Snowden (who are doctoral students at UT Austin with me and by that very virtue are, you know, in close proximity) had not asked me. Which is cool, but just…odd?
- I had never written an article in my life (that I can recall), and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why anyone would think that I could. This is not a matter of false modesty. If someone sent me an email asking if I could make pesto I could do it, but I would think it an odd an sort of non-sequitur request in my day.
After an email exchange with Robert and managing editor Molly Sheridan I said “yes”, dug up a little pocket-sized notebook that my grandmother gave me as a part of a care package when I was in college,
Even the pencil says "Andy"...thanks Baba!
and a few days later found myself at an all-day new music festival. The festival went well and the following week I sent the article off to NMB, which I promptly forgot about as I entered the final few weeks of the semester. Then in early July I got an email from Molly asking if I’d like to be one of four regional editors for NMB. I was flattered and interested and accepted the offer. I’ll be writing a few stories a month for NMB as well as keeping the New York office abreast of the regional new music happenings around here.
So go to NMB and check ’em out!
July 20, 2011
New Website
This is what happens when you try to put up a new website.
You spend an hour tweaking all these small things that no one cares about…
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