May 24, 2024
H.C.
Robbins Landon, the great musicologist, once wrote about Mozart
that his music was “an excuse for mankind's existence and a small
hope for our ultimate survival." I couldn’t agree more, especially
when it comes to a piece like the one we’re going to talk about
today, Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor,...
May 9, 2024
My first interaction with the musical term modes was Leonard Bernstein’s brilliant Young People’s Concert, also called What is a Mode? In that show, Bernstein showed how modes are an essential part of what makes modern music, meaning pop and rock music, tick. This was central to Bernstein’s point during...