During the pandemic lockdown, the celebrated producer-composer Ryan Truesdell (Gil Evans Project) commissioned fifteen leading composers, many from the jazz world, to produce new music for the venerable string quartet, giving the stellar artists few parameters, unleashing them to make brilliant contemporary music. The results are simultaneously “classical” and modern, familiar and experimental, comforting and...
Domestic Terrorists“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.” – U.S. District Judge Fred Biery, ordering the release of a…
David Breskin, a renowned record producer, author and artist, wrote a poem every day for six months in 2024, prohibiting himself from revising. Instead, he “timestamped” each work at the moment of completion — and returned to composition the next day. The resulting book, Timestamp: The Daily Practice of Poetry, is a triumph, simultaneously entertaining, provocative,...
