Ten Favorite Recordings from 2008
(Give or Take Fifteen)
Let me humbly offer you a list of the music that caught my attention, held it, thrilled me, and ministered to my mind, heart, and soul in 2008.
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Tags: B.B. King, Beach House, Beck, Bill Frisell, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, BRian Eno, Calexico, Cat Power, Crosby Stills & Nash, David Byrne, DeVotchka, Drive-by Truckers, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Fleet Foxes, Jolie Holland, Lizz Wright, Loudon Wainwright III, Lucinda WIlliams, Marco Benevento, Mudcrutch, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Over the Rhine, Plants and Animals, Portishead, Ron Sexsmith, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Sam Phillips, She & Him, Sigur Ros, Sixpence None the Richer, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, T-Bone Burnett, Talking Heads, The Dodos, The Smiths, The Welcome Wagon, Top Ten 2008, U2, Vito and Monique Aiuto, Woven Hand
Pandora Radio:
Rewarding Your Curiosity
Whether or not Pandora released all evil on mankind, she did manage to lend her name to a much more worthy project - the Music Genome Project’s Pandora internet radio.
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Tags: Band of Horses, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay, curiosity, David Bowie, Fallout Boy, Greek mythology, Iggy & the Stooges, Internet radio, J.S. Bach, John Mayer, Minor Threat, Neil Young, Pandora, Sarah McLachlan, Sex Pistols, Sleater-Kinney, symposium, The Pretenders, The Ramones, Tokyo Rose, Violent Femmes
A Medieval Christmas
(Downe in the Heart of Texas)
Musings on Kemper Crabb’s “Downe in Yon Forrest” medieval Christmas album, and its relevance in the unrootedness of our culture.
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An Interview with Katie Herzig (Part 3)
The third of a three-part interview, in which Herzig talks candidly about her creative process, making music in the Nashville community, and her latest effort, “Apple Tree”.
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An Interview with Katie Herzig (Part 2)
The second of a three-part interview, in which Herzig talks candidly about her creative process, making music in the Nashville community, and her latest effort, “Apple Tree”.
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The Day Boy and the Night Girl
Is classical music dying? Not if American opera composers have something to say about it, including Jordan Wentworth Farrar, composer of this new American opera.
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Tags: A Streetcar Named Desire, A View from the Bridge, After Dinner Opera, American opera, Amy Beach, An American Tragedy, Duke Ellington, Ethan Frome, George MacDonald, John Adams, Jordan Wentworth Farrar, Joseph Kerman, Lee Hoiby, Little Women, Louisa Jonason, McTeague, Opera and the Morbidity of Music, Our Town, Philip Glass, Richard Flusser, Seymour Barab, The Day Boy and the Night Girl, The Great Gatsby An Interview with Katie Herzig (Part 1)
The first of a three-part interview, in which Herzig talks candidly about her creative process, making music in the Nashville community, and her latest effort, “Apple Tree”.
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Boffo Socko Jaco
They are one with their instrument. There isn’t a point at which the man stops and his instrument begins. This was Jaco.
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Performance and The Odd Lamb
As the Beast, complete with yarn-covered shirt, nose painted black, black socks for gloves, I proceed to have a somewhat choreographed fight with The Odd Lamb.
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Doctor Atomic or: How Opera Learned
to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
I came away having reaffirmed that I do not come to the opera to be told how to think about something, I come to the opera to have people and history come alive for me.
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Tags: Achille Lauro, Bhagavad Gita, Charles Baudelaire, Doctor Atomic, Gerald Finley, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John Adams, John Donne, Julian Crouch, Kitty Oppenheimer, Muriel Rukeyser, musique concrete, Nixon in China, opera, Penny Woolcock, Peter Gelb, Peter Sellars, Sasha Cooke, The Death of Klinghoffer, William Shakespeare Subscribe 
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