• Alan Hovhaness – And God Created Great Whales, Op. 229, No. 1
  • Alan Hovhaness – String Quartet No. 3, Op. 208, No. 1: II. Andante - Poco allegretto
  • Alan Hovhaness – String Quartet No. 3, Op. 208, No. 1: I. Andante - Adagio
  • Alan Hovhaness – Prelude and Quadruple Fugue, Op. 128
  • Alan Hovhaness – Symphony No. 50, Op. 360, "Mount St. Helens": III. Volcano: Adagio - Allegro

Stroma – 17 May 2009

Jenny McLeod: Cat Dreams Gillian Whitehead: Hineteiwaiwa David Downes: Bliss Mechanism Michael Norris: tesserae… interstices John Rimmer: Ring of Fire It’s a crying shame that Stroma plays only two concerts a year, because the amount of work done by both performers and composers for these concerts must be immense. This concert, part of New Zealand [...]

A Musical Manifesto

(while I struggle to find time for my second real post) Why is it that I detest so much popular music? What is it about “classical” or “contemporary classical” that attracts me? The way they write is thoroughly off-putting, but Marcuse, Attali and Adorno make, between them, an excellent point. Music is not supposed to [...]