Score: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s indiscriminate excellence.
Boston Globe, September 27, 2017.

Reviewing Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry, premiering Philip Glass.
Boston Globe, September 25, 2017.

Score: On Isang Yun.
Boston Globe, September 15, 2017.

Score: Remembering François Rilhac.
Boston Globe, September 1, 2017.

I first found out about Rilhac through YouTube; here’s a couple excerpts from a concert he gave with Louis Mazatier in June of 1987. First, Rilhac’s version of Donald Lambert’s version of Wagner’s “Pilgrim’s Chorus”:


And here he is—somehow efficient and yearning at the same time—playing Jerome Kern’s “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”:

Score: “The Housatonic at Stockbridge” in word and note.
Boston Globe, August 25, 2017.

Score: Razumovsky, Beethoven—and Sweden, and Verdi.
Boston Globe, August 18, 2017.

Score: On Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union.

(This makes 200 of these columns, incidentally.)

Score: Pulsars, spun into music.
Boston Globe, August 4, 2017.

Aligned-stars coincidence: One of the waystations on that CP1919 image’s journey from signal to Joy Division cover was a January 1971 Scientific American article, “The Nature of Pulsars,”, by Jeremiah Ostriker, who is the father of Globe arts editor Rebecca Ostriker.