The Fanfare classical music meta-list for best recordings of the year
Fanfare is the leading periodical for classical music reviews, and every year it asks numerous critics — this time 45 of them — for their top five classical music picks of the year. In turn, each year...
View ArticleFanfare meta-list for classical CDs
Loyal MR readers will know that late fall I survey the yearly “Want Lists” of Fanfare music reviewers. If you don’t already know, Fanfare is the world’s premiere journal for classical music reviews....
View ArticleA good sentence to ponder
Bach heard the St. Matthew Passion four times at most. That is George Chien, from the September/October issue of Fanfare. The post A good sentence to ponder appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
View ArticleTuesday assorted links
1. “Dolce & Gabbana used drones to carry handbags down the runway instead of models.” 2. The Uchida concert. It was remarkable how many people I know I bumped into there. 3. Bryan Caplan responds...
View ArticleWho’s complacent, Charlie?
In 1910, just 5% of American babies named “Charlie” were girls. Over 100 years later, girl Charlies took over their male counterparts for the first time in 2016—making up 51% of the share. With little...
View ArticleWhy We Can’t Have Nice Things–Elon Musk and the Subways
In New York it costs billions of dollar per mile to build new subways, a price far higher than anywhere else in the world. That’s one reason why Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has been anything but....
View ArticleFanfare classical music meta-list, and my favorite classical music of the year
Fanfare is the best outlet for classic music reviews I know, and each year I avidly scour the critics’ Want Lists. These are the items that showed up more than once: Kyle Gann, Hyperchromatica, “…an...
View ArticleClassical musical recordings of the year
We are approaching the year-end “best of” lists, so why not start with the one you care about least? I had a very good year for classical music listening, with the following as new discoveries: John...
View ArticleCold Storage No Longer a Constraint
Yahoo: With little fanfare, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave Pfizer permission this week to store its COVID-19 vaccine in a typical refrigerator for one month — freeing the vaccine from the...
View ArticleThe Adverse Selection of Crypto Regulation
Matt Levine: Facebook Inc. (now Meta Platforms Inc.) announced in 2019 with enormous fanfare that it was going to launch a stablecoin and work closely with all of the relevant regulators blah blah...
View ArticleThe Fanfare meta-Want List
Every year I read through the Fanfare Want Lists for new classical music releases, and collate the new recordings that are recommended by more than one person as one of the five most noteworthy...
View ArticleHow to discover Indian classical music
Versions of that request were repeated a few times, along with a request for a YouTube or Spotify list. Given the visual element, I would say that YouTube >> Spotify. But mostly you are looking...
View ArticleHow I listen to music
Ian Leslie writes to me: I’m wondering, have you ever done a post about how you listen to music? Hours per week, times of day, technologies, degree of multi-tasking, etc…and how you choose what to...
View ArticleForthcoming growth winners?
I haven’t been following these countries closely, so I don’t have any “takes,” but I will start paying more attention: 1. Philippines: Growth has been averaging about six percent a year since 2012...
View ArticleWhy don’t they compose music like Bach any more?
Well, they do, or at least they did once. I am thinking of a recent recording by Nikolaus Matthes, namely Markus Passion, which fills 3 compact discs and sounds remarkably like a Passion from Bach’s...
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