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Nov 25
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Graffiti writer’s block ..

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Graffiti writer’s block ..


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Nov 23
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“The music is Ives plus the deliberate, wicked perversity of using all the right notes.”


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Alfred Frankenstein writing about Virgil Thomson
(quoted in Peter Yates’ Twentieth Century Music, p.106)

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Nov 22
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FACEPOST

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Nov 21
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ROOF

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Nov 20
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One Leaf

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One Leaf


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Nov 19
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Quartet

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Quartet


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Nov 18
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“simple desire to tell the stories of Los Angeles.”


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Why LA Opera is creating an opera about the 110 Freeway. In this LA Times article.

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Nov 17
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FACEBALL

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Nov 16
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Shadow Ladder

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Shadow Ladder


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Nov 15
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Cowboy Yarn

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Cowboy Yarn


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Nov 13
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ARTNT I

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Nov 12
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“both fields are so deeply invested in their own traditions that they tend to confuse those traditions with their function.”


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BOTH = orchestras and newspapers.

Anne Midgette writing in this article.

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Nov 09
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SING
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SING


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Nov 08
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Fork in the Road

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Fork in the Road


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(Click here to see this intersection in Google Street View)

(Read a news article here.)

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Nov 03
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“Mr. Price. Please don’t try to make things nice. All the wrong notes are right.”


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Charles Ives memo to his copyist. Quoted in Peter Yates’ Twentieth Century Music, p.9

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