Happy Birthday, Steve Reich
Steve Reich's 70th birthday celebration is currently keeping NYC concert-goers pretty busy, but you can participate at home, thanks to the Whitney Museum's web-casting of its October 15 performance event.
Happy Labor Day
Flame on!
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Happy New Year!
When I picked up the mail on Saturday, I had an unexpected package. It contained Vance Dickason's Loudspeaker">http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9781882580477">Loudspeaker Design Cookbook, 7th Edition. Oh boy!
Happy To Be Me
Huckleberry is one smug kitty.
Hard Day's Hava Nagila
This is just so wrong, it's right.
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Hard Facts About Soft Ships
Maybe the skies won't be filled with airships after all.
Hard-Wired For Music?
Scientists agree that humans are stimulated by music in the same ways as we are by sex and food. So now for the big question: How come?
Hard-Wired For Sound?
Are the brains of animals hard-wired to detect the footfalls (or wingflaps) of predators? Dr. Cord Westhoff thinks so.
Harry Partch, Musical Genius
Partch was a musical iconoclast who created his own theory of music, a 64-tone scale, and instruments that could play the sounds he imagined. Performances of his music incorporate drama, which is heightened by the beauty of his instruments.
Harry Potter and the Death of Reading
Personally, I've enjoyed the Potter books finding the themes more archetypal than "derivative," but chacun á son goût, ya know? What I found interesting about Ron Charles' rant was this pithy argument: "We're experiencing the literary equivalent of a loss of biodiversity." In 1994, according to a Stanford survey, over 70% of fiction sales were from just five authors.