It’s been one of the wettest winters in memory, and the coming of spring is opening up a broad floodplain for music. It feels like the Santa Fe River is now - a stream overflowing its recent, constricted banks onto older, parched, but still fertile places. The acequia is running, the land is breathing a […]
I was revolted by the Academy Awards’ use of this phrase to describe music. For one thing, it brings ugly connotations of sexism and servitude which neither women nor men probably need to be reminded of. Beside this, it’s not true. Music is much older than movies, people. Come on! Film has done nothing to […]