Category Archives: Recordings

Blogging and the Van Meegeren Syndrome

Posted on February 5, 2016 by

It’s been a long time. I shouldn’t have left you. Without a strong rhyme to step to. Well, I’ve been teaching again after a semester’s sabbatical and working on a biggish piece of offline writing, so that’s been occupying my … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Blogging, Recordings, Technology | 2 Comments

Echoes

Posted on January 19, 2016 by

As I’ve written before, one of the general ideas that holds the greatest allure for me is the discovery of long-unheard music and musical practices, of hearing again what is generally agreed to have disappeared and been forgotten, and of … Continue reading →

Posted in Early Music, Film, Old Honkytonk Monkeyshines, Pop Culture, Recordings | 1 Comment

Click Here for Gershwin

Posted on November 16, 2015 by

This year, the American Musicological Society’s national meeting was in Lou’vl, KY, and it has proven to be one of my favorite annual get-togethers: good program, papers, food, bourbon, networking, planning, socializing, jamming, even meetings…really, the whole lot. One of … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Jazz, Performance Practice, Recordings

If you can’t trust yourself, trust the process

Posted on September 9, 2015 by
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Let Me Tell You a Story

Posted on August 24, 2013 by

Or four, or (really) seven. A Certain Young Man returned a couple of weeks ago from his summer internship in Washington, D. C. bearing gifts, including a recording of Chopin Ballades—plus three Nocturnes—by Nelson Goerner.  The recording was done in … Continue reading →

Posted in Performance, Performance Practice, Piano, Recordings, Uncategorized

Fearsomely Authentic

Posted on February 14, 2009 by

Jonathan Bellman I have just finished listening to Raising Sand, the T-Bone Burnett-produced Robert Plant/Alison Krauss collaboration that won Album of the Year.  To me, the thing sizzles, and I’m a fan of neither country music nor Plant.  I never liked Zeppelin much; I … Continue reading →

Posted in Pop Aesthetics, Recordings | 5 Comments

Reactions to the Record II

Posted on January 19, 2009 by

Jonathan Bellman So I’m back from Stanford; this meeting was absolutely superb (the first one in April 2007, which I reported here, was also superb). I have to love the sort of meeting where someone  (Denis Hall, actually) can come up to me at … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Performance Practice, Recordings | 5 Comments