Without really a very big crowd or any stars, the Minimalist Jukebox series began in earnest with two pieces that came to being right at the birth of what we call Minimalism. The first piece was Terry Jennings’ String Quartet. As with most minimalist pieces, there are rules that are laid out and followed. Here […]
The Los Angeles Philharmonic is about to head into two weeks of minimalist concerts featuring works by some of its greatest composers. I will review many of those concerts right here on this blog. It is a heady and much needed concert series to be sure, but hardly filled with what I would consider to […]
Well so the impossible finally happened. Those who would have been forced to give Brokeback Mountain a chance can breathe a collective sigh of relief. We now know that being gay in a movie is okay (Philip Seymour Hoffman won for playing one), just that can’t be the focus of the movie. Funny too though that […]
