The Subterranean Review

Liberal democracy, as practiced in the USA and the UK, does not work. Why not? Because it leads to impoverishment, which in turn leads to fa...

Why do music lovers after attending a concert of classical music feel better than before? Why do they want to hear some of the pieces of the...

  There are not many concepts in the modern world which are more misunderstood than ‘youth’. When, in the last century, the idea got momentu...

Contrary to conventional belief, a cultural tradition is not a simple formula or a body of instructions to be followed, or a collection of r...

  A new article published on my website about the modernity of new music which revives musical values of premodernist times: https://johnbor...

  Beautiful song cycle by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen (born 1952) - 'Let me tell you': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcveHFQ6X...

Last week the Panamese/Dutch soprano Marianne Blok has died. She was 80. She was one of the great voices of the Netherlands, and sang in m...