The Subterranean Review
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
French tragedy
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Some time ago, I had an interesting exchange with a french modernist composer, whose work had impressed me by its orchestral sonic brillianc...
Monday, 18 September 2017
Brainwashing the young
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At the 'New Musix Box', an American website showing material from some circles of young composers and students, a telling example wa...
Friday, 15 September 2017
Names
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From Roger Scruton's essay: "How I discovered my name": “[Many English names] are equally historic, but fatally distorted b...
Tuesday, 5 September 2017
The boundaries of matter
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Is matter all there is in the universe? And, for that matter, what is matter? I found these two quotes by scientists who have thought deeply...
Saturday, 2 September 2017
Emancipatory destruction
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Anybody interested in the causes of present-day cultural erosion, should take notice of what happened in academia in the last century, where...
Monday, 14 August 2017
Orchestral erosion
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Nowadays, there are orchestras - including orchestras with an impressive history of serious music making and with a tradition of programming...
Thursday, 10 August 2017
Understanding the future
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How important is the past for our self-understanding, and for the understanding of a possible future? “The English historian B H Liddell ...
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