Posts Tagged ‘richard wagner’
Posted by Mike on March 5th, 2012 under Education, Misc, Performance Tags: #bam, 89.7 FM, a blog supreme, a love supreme, academia, academic music, acid folk, alan lomax, bill frisell, black radio, borghi teager, canon, classical music, coffee break, dave liebman, dave matthews band, donald harrison jr, ecm, elton john, flight of the conchords, grateful dead, herbie hancock, icons among us, icons among us: jazz in the present tense, jam band, james carter, jazz, jazz in the present tense, john coltrane, john harle, john medeski, ken burns, ken burns jazz, LCC coffee break, lcc radio, luciano berio, marco benevento, matt borghi, michael teager, miles davis, mt-headed, mt-headed blog, musical blind spot, musical style, nicholas payton, npr, richard wagner, robert glasper, smashing pumpkins, son house, style, teag & pk, teag and pk, terence blanchard, tool, top 5, wayne shorter, wynton marsalis, young lions •
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Style is much larger than a happy mix of canon and jargon. In fact, it can be downright incendiary. (Photography by Jillian Hakala) The week before last, my partner Matt Borghi and I – together known as Teag & PK – had a couple local radio spots. The first was a part of 89.7′s Coffee [...]
Posted by Mike on February 19th, 2012 under Misc Tags: adam carolla, adam levine, beach boys, black sabbath, bon iver, brian wilson, bruce johnston, bruno mars, chris brown, foster the people, grammy, grammy awards 2012, herbie hancock, high fidelity, james brown, mark foster, maroon 5, michael teager, mike love, miles davis, mt-headed, mt-headed blog, qbert, richard wagner, stevie wonder, teager, the dead, the grateful dead •
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For me, the Grammys largely come and go most years without much notice. I occasionally have some small emotional stake in one or two awards. This year I was pleased to see Bon Iver (praised here) not only nominated but win, and I was pleased that they refused to perform. I don’t often watch the show. [...]
Posted by Mike on January 23rd, 2012 under Misc Tags: alex ross, ann arbor, chicago lyric opera, der ring des nibelungen, einstein on the beach, kate moran, knee play, lucinda childs, michael riesman, michael teager, mt-headed, mt-headed blog, philip glass, philip glass ensemble, pomegranate arts, richard wagner, ring cycle, robert wilson, ums, ums.org, university of michigan •
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(Disclaimer: I don’t intend for this to be a “review,” but rather a stream of consciousness way for me to gather and digest my immediate thoughts and reactions. Also note that I am not an EOTB expert. I’m simply a fan.) It was very fresh and clean. This afternoon, I was fortunate enough to see Philip Glass [...]
