Month: June 2016

  I’m a longtime fan of the movie The Sweet Smell of Success, but my admiration has redoubled after seeing it for the first time in a theater. Appropriately, it was the venerable Brattle St. arthouse in Harvard Sq, where the Bogart revival began in the 50s and Bergman got his American foothold. I’ve been … Continue reading “THE SWEET SLIME OF CURTIS AND LANCASTER”

[The below was written for my new intro to music for Basic Books, due to come out later this year as best I can tell. I’m posting my original essays here because most of this material was cut from the book.]   When I used to teach classes in musical analysis I insisted that my … Continue reading “EXPRESSION AND EMOTION IN MUSIC”