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Patterns in the Brain
This wonderful image is not your brain on music. It’s from Stephen Malinowski’s animated graphical score of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps: Part I and Part II. A few months ago, at the time I was thinking about starting this blog, a lot of media attention was being directed to the 100th anniversary of…
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Why Am I Doing This?
My favorite photography collection is Contemporary Musicians in Photographs by Louis Ouzer. This 1979 Dover publication contains 119 photos of some of the world’s most famous musicians, from Rubinstein to Ellington, taken at the Eastman School of Music between 1940 and 1979. Ouzer, whose studio was a few doors down the street from Eastman, was a…