No, that title doesn’t refer to the Carter Triple Duo, which we haven’t suddenly added to our repertoire. Nor does it refer to the meter changes at rehearsal letter A in Thomas Adès’s Catch (almost, but not quite). Nor does it have anything to do with counting ballots in Chicago or anywhere else — this [...]
Today I had the pleasure of driving with Tim from Easton, PA to Dulles International Airport. Overall the drive was uneventful. Tim surfed for NPR broadcasts and eventually ended up playing “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me” podcasts from his iPod.
For those of you just tuning into “Thirteen Ways” I feel compelled to reiterate that [...]
Tim came into rehearsal today and announced that he’d cleaned out his iPod, leaving on it the works of only two composers. This led to a lot of commentary from the rest of us (”Wow, what a purist” and “You know about playlists, right?” being my two favorites). He made us try to guess which [...]
