Via vilaine fille again this year, WHRB has many interesting orgies this month, kicking it all off with Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man as part of the War Horses orgy today as well as the Paul Sacher orgy and "12 Blues Songs in 12 Hours" coming up on Thursday, the Dave Holland orgy on Sunday, the Wes Montgomery orgy on Friday, May 19th, the Dexter Gordon orgy on Sunday, May 21st thru Tuesday, May 23rd (!), the Harold Shapero orgy on Friday, May 26th, and finally the Britten/Pears orgy on Wednesday, May 31st.
I heard most if not all of Varèse's musical orgy last year. And I like musical orgies as much as the next guy but I think I'll skip the ten or so days of the complete Mozart.
This is also my chance to mention that Humphrey Carpenter's Britten biography reported that the composer Benjamin Britten and the singer Peter Pears consummated their relationship in good ol' Grand Rapids, Michigan of all places.
The music of Keith Fullerton Whitman is currently streaming all night:
Several of his recent albums were even recorded on Harvard’s own collection of analog synthesizers; Whitman was allowed access while teaching an electronic music composition class here.
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