MissMusicNerd
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Birthday
- September 08
- Company
- Miss Music Nerd
- Bio
- This ain't your mama's music appreciation!
MY RECENT POSTS
- On Playing the Piano
March 16, 2013 01:25PM - My First Musical Crush,
Revisited
April 25, 2011 02:37PM - “I Love to Keep Moving:”
An Interview With Laurie
Anderson
January 19, 2011 03:48PM - Lisztomania!
January 13, 2011 12:05PM - Classical Music Marketing
Madness!
January 13, 2011 11:07AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Jeanette -- Good point.
Sometimes it can be a
growth
experience to see their
huma…”
April 26, 2011 05:18PM - “Steve -- Thanks for your
kind words! This was a lot of
fun
and a great learning
e…”
January 20, 2011 10:58AM - “Thanks for reading,
everyone!
Barbara --
I need to check out Imogen
Heap. She was…”
January 20, 2011 08:38AM - “Thank you so much for
this, Ken, it is beautiful. I
remember
a similar
experience…”
January 14, 2011 08:45AM - “What inquiring
mostly-vegetarians need to
know is: what is
Indy like for
cuisines…”
January 13, 2011 02:33PM
MissMusicNerd's Links
On Playing the Piano
Cross-posted at missmusicnerd.com
When I found out that Laurie Anderson, multimedia artist and avant-pop icon, was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance category, I was intrigued. I know, I’m supposed to be covering the Classical Field (a… Read full post »
Lisztomania!
JP Concerts presents:
Lisztomania Times Two
Thursday, January 13, 7:00 pm
St. John's Episcopal Church
1 Roanoke Avenue, Boston (map link)
$10 at the door
Cross-posted at missmusicnerd.com.
Any classical music nerd worth his or her salt can tell you that the composer Franz Liszt is best-… Read full post »
Classical Music Marketing Madness!
Earlier this week, a friend and fellow music nerd, who keep tabs on the classical scene in St. Louis and environs, hipped me to an offer from his home team, the St. Louis Symphony, along with this comment:
"Why can we sell Mahler tickets at a fraction of retail… Read full post »
Sing Handel in Boston, Bring Healing to Haiti!
Zeitgeist New Music presents
Night Singing: Music by Andrew Rindfleisch
October 7, 8, 9, 7:30 p.m.
Studio Z, 275 East Fourth Street, Suite 200, St. Paul MN
$10
A week ago, I was wishing for a couch, but this week I'm upping the ante: what I really… Read full post »
Naked and Singing, Making Life Worthwhile
Cross-posted at missmusicnerd.com
• Boston Symphony Orchesra featuring Bryn Terfel:
Music of Richard Wagner, Saturday, October 1, 2010
• Cantata Singers Chamber Series: Music of Ralph Vaughan
Williams, Sunday, October 2, 2010
I didn't expect to find much of a common thread betwe… Read full post »
Cross-posted at missmusicnerd.com.
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, October 2, 2010, 6:00 pm
Music of Richard Wagner, featuring Bryn Terfel, baritone
Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
Tomorrow night, McDoc and I will get gussied up for a fancy shindig: the BSO season op… Read full post »
Well, music nerds, I know that experiments in human cloning are
sort of frowned upon in most sectors, but dang it, I need more than
one of me!
I'm slated to attend two concerts here in Boston this weekend: the
BSO
season opener Saturday, and Cantata Singers' program of
songs… Read full post »
Not With A Bang, But A Hymn: Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Cross-posted at missmusicnerd.com
Cantata Singers Chamber Series
Vocal Solo and Ensemble Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sunday, October 3rd, 2:30pm
Longy School of Music 1 Follen Street, Cambridge, MA
Admission: $20 at the door, or click here to purchase
Earlier this y… Read full post »
Cross-posted at missmusicnerd.com
New Music
Detroit
Strange Beautiful Music IV
Saturday, September 25 at 6 p.m.-1 a.m.
Museum of Contemporary Art
Detroit
4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit MI
It's not every day that Detroit figures prominently in Arts and Entertainment media, but a random con… Read full post »
Saturday, Sept. 25, 7:30 pm
JP Concerts Presents:
The 30 Days Project
Music by Linda Kernohan, performed by the Inter-NEC Collective
St. John’s Episcopal Church
1 Roanoke Ave, Jamaica Plain, MA (Google
map link)
$10 suggested donation • more info: jpconcerts.com
In August of 2007, I w… Read full post »
Miss Music Nerd’s Fall Arts Preview: A Far Cry from Boston!
Art Song's Rich Palette: the [plain] song in Boston
the [plain] song is a group of ambitious young musicians whose mission is to share their passion for art song. From their website: "For centuries this intimate genre has synthesized the works of the greatest musical and literary minds in history. the [plain] song believes that the… Read full post »
What Miss Music Nerd Did On Her Summer Vacation!
I became a vegetarian when I was fifteen. It was health-related at first; I had begun to notice an unpleasant, heavy feeling in my stomach after eating meat, and when I didn't eat it, I felt better. But while researching vegetarian nutrition in order prove to my worried mother that I… Read full post »
Two Decembers ago, I came across a wonderful online Advent Calendar, featuring a different piece of advent music for each day performed by the wonderful musicians of Trinity Church in New York City. I'm sad to report that the music links on that calendar don't appear to be working anymore, and… Read full post »
Music for Hanukkah!
Happy Hanukkah, music nerds! Are you ready for some Hanukkah music? Join me on a journey from the ancient to modern, classical to klezmer!
Time to light the Menorah:
The Jewish National and University Library has a great collection of Hanukkah music from a variety of traditions, i… Read full post »
trilogy
Charles Thomas
Grace Hwang Lynch
Pamela Feinsilber
LuminousMuse
Joan H.
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