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Pollini’s Chopin and Liszt at Prodigious Speeds but a Tight Grip on the Reins - New York Times

Bostridge and Andsnes Pan Through the Bits and Pieces That Schubert Left Behind - New York Times

Peter Serkin: On Memory and the Pleasures of Counterpoint - New York Times

I am playing John Adam’s opera Nixon in China with Chicago Opera Theater this month. It is a really amazing piece, and I recommend checking it out if you can. Here are some performance details. It is a minimalist work, but it is in a more accessible style of minimalist than [...]

I think that GarageBand is an excellent way to work in the world of digital recording. Apple makes it very straightforward. While it may not have the power of ProTools or other such professional applications, it can really deliver some quality product.
A Beginners guide to mixing in GarageBand - O’Reilly XML Blog

I have several students who work in the field of audio engineering as well as music performance. This is an institute worth checking out. They only specialize in training recording engineers.
audiorecordingschool.com - Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences

John Cage’s Long Music Composition in Germany Changes a Note - New York Times

Marsalis’s ‘Congo Square,’ With the Lincoln Center Orchestra - New York Times

The excellent violinist Jeff Yang will be performing several shows over the next few weeks. Here are the details:
Saturday, May 6th,
come and see my band Tautologic at the Internation Pop Overthrow festival. The show starts at 1:30 and we will be playing the last set at 4:00.

Monday May 8th at [...]

I will be performing with the Bach Chamber Orchestra this Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. James in Rockford, IL. Ironically, the program is all Mozart.