Recent Listening

  • Buck Curran: One Evening and Other Folk Songs (2024)
  • Toby Hay: New Music for the 6 String Guitar (2025)
  • Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe: Lateral (2025)
  • David Hennessy: Panopticon (2019)
  • Amosphère: Cosmogonical Ears (2025)
  • Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain (1960)
  • Yungchen Lhamo: Tibet, Tibet (1996)
  • Erkki-Sven Tüür: Aeris (2025)
  • Chick Corea: Return to Forever (1972)
  • Toshio Hosokawa: Futari Shizuka - The Maiden from the Sea (2025)
  • Mary Halvorson: About Ghosts (2025)
  • Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found (2024)
  • Bruce Hornsby and the Range: The Way It Is (1996)
  • Frank Sinatra: In The Wee Small Hours (1955)
  • Keith Jarrett: New Vienna (2025)
  • Helen Charlston: If the Fates Allow - Music by Purcell & his Contemporaries (2025)
  • Djrum: Under Tangled Silence (2025)
  • These New Puritans: Crooked Wing (2025)
  • Robert Fripp: God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners (1980)
  • Charles Ives/Alexander Goehr/Gerard Schürmann: Songs, perf. McCabe/Nixon (1967)
  • Samuel Barber: The Music of Samuel Barber, perf NY Philharmonic/Schippers (1980)
  • Johannes Brahms: Four Serious Songs/Lieder, perf. Fischer-Dieskau/Demus
  • Joseph Haydn: String Quartets Op.33, Nos 1-3, perf Chiaroscuro Quartet (2023)
  • Alban Berg/Leif Segerstam: Sieben frühe Lieder/Six Songs of Experience, perf. Taru Valjakka/Austrian Radio SO (1979)
  • Franz Schubert: "Trout" Quintet, perf. Moura Lympany w/ LSO principals (1974)

Recent reading

  • Vincent Persichetti: Twentieth-Century Harmony
  • Alexander Goehr (with Jack Van Zandt): Composing A Life - Teachers, Mentors & Models
  • Seamus Heaney: Field Work
  • Michael Symmons Roberts: Quartet for the End of Time
  • Ted Hughes: Lupercal
  • Alice Oswald: Falling Awake
  • Patrick J. Deneen: Why Liberalism Failed
  • Ford Madox Ford: Parade's End
  • Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch
  • Ted Gioia: Music to Raise the Dead
  • William Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 1
  • Claire Dederer: Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
  • Kim Gordon: Girl in a Band
  • Caitlin Horrocks: The Vexations
  • David Goodhart: The Care Dilemma - Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality
  • Neal Stephenson: Polostan
  • Adrian Tchaikovsky: Terrible Worlds, Revolutions
  • Aristophanes: The Birds (trans. Barrett)
  • Nate Chinen: Playing Changes - Jazz for the New Century
  • Ed Conway: Material World - A Substantial History of Our Past and Future