The Fredösphere

Here's what they are saying out there in arts blog land:

Mixolydian Mode presents punk rock's foremost accordionist and also mentions this list of the top 100 sci-fi books.  Of the latter, I have read 21, assuming I remember correctly that I have read Asimov's The Gods Themselves.  That I remember precisely nothing of it is no real evidence that I haven't read it -- we are talking about Asimov here.

It may be fun to keep an eye on this professor's experiment in involuntary blog servitude, which I would have thought would be unconstitutional, but hey, they're only students, it's not like they deserve to have rights or something.

"This will send my traffic stats through the roof!"  muttered Alan Brandt to himself as he lovingly crafted this post (scroll down to 24-Aug-2004) which includes the keywords "jailbait" and "sex" and "oldest profession."  He'll get visits as well from the vast hoard of people googling for "Bach" + "flashmob opera".

This one goes deeper than your usual post:  it's a claim about Wagner interpretation.  Those conductors who attend to detail and transparency are getting it wrong!  I suppose it relates to the whole business of "Wagner's orchestra plays the organ."  If only orchestras came with sustain pedals the way pianos do.

aworks has a lot to say about Ives' The Unanswered Question and helps explain why it's the only thing by Ives I appreciate.

Jessica Duchen thinks classical music will survive and liked the Proms and is (like me) one who compares the more austere schools of 20th century music to a certain emperor who was duped into unfortunate practice of parading around in public butt nekkid.