Sandow

Hard to believe, but the English National Opera posted a bio of Richard Strauss, in which they said Johann Strauss was his father: “Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was one of the most highly acclai...

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2024/03/dumb-and-dumber.html

I’ve deleted my last post, about what the Cleveland Plain Dealer printed as CIM’s response to the faculty vote of no confidence. It wasn’t CIM’s response at all, but instead a statement m...

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2024/03/important-correction.html

The faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music — by an overwhelming majority, 90% — have voted no confidence in the school’s top administrators, president Paul Hogle and provost Scott Harr...

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2024/03/so-important-cim-faculty-denounce-president-and-provost.html

I’m happy that people are reading me here! It’s been so long since I’ve last posted. So it’s good to get replies to my post, encouraging ones. There’s just one thing, though. I talked a...

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2024/02/15532.html

I haven’t posted in awhile. Or been active online. But now I’ve been posting on Facebook, and thought I’d put one of those posts here, one of a series I’ve done on the unwritten — and, ...

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2024/02/coming-back-2.html

Update…my July 8 performance won’t be streamed. It’s in the catacombs under Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. No Internet there! But it’ll be filmed, and there will be video available late...

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2021/06/oops.html

That’s the name of a variation on “America the Beautiful” that I wrote for Min Kwon’s America/Beautiful project… But wait…what IS that? Min commissioned variations from more than 70 c...

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2021/06/america-slow-dance.html

I haven’t blogged in a long time. I’ve been quiet lately. Not storming the world with ideas about the future of classical music. Just peacefully teaching at Juilliard (remotely, of course), d...

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2021/06/coming-back.html

During an interview, I gave the Pet Shop Boys an idea for one of their wittiest songs. And I love that!

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2020/01/oooo-pet-shop-boys.html

When I was a pop music journalist, I heard Ice-T say something cruel and homophobic in a live show. I called him on it when I interviewed him — and he said he'd never say it again.

https://www.artsjournal.com/sandow/2020/01/how-ice-t-was-a-mensch.html