News and Announcements

  • Music for the End of Winter at Brucknerhaus Linz
    On December 11 at 6pm, Slovenian pianist Jan Satler will perform Howard Frazin’s Music for the End of Winter as part of his Winter-Klavier program at Brucknerhaus Linz in Austria. The concert will take place in…
  • Inside Music and the Collective Breath
    In the big picture for us fancy-schmancy monkeys, music is something much like howling is for wolves—a group activity initiated by social animals expressly to create group coherence. Looking more deeply, music for humans seems…
  • Street Portrait by Mark Ostow
    Mark Ostow Photography   View this post on Instagram   Pandemic DAY 35 During a month of blurry, this day was even blurrier. I have two photos to share that I took across from Bow…
  • New England Philharmonic Performs Goodnight Moon at Boston Children’s Museum
    On Sunday, November 10, the New England Philharmonic Chamber Players performed Goodnight Moon at the Boston Children’s Museum as part of their Meet the Instruments Chamber Players Series. The piece, inspired by the children’s book…
  • Letting Go at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago
    Baritone Keith Phares and pianist Linda Osborn performed Letting Go, a song cycle based on the works of Donald Hall, at Chicago’s Poetry Foundation on August 15. 
  • WordSong Celebrates 10 Years with “Tyger Circus”
    WordSong, co-founded by composers Howard Frazin and Tom Schnauber, has spent the last 10 years exploring the idea that all listeners have an intuitive musical understanding. The unique concert format presents a collection of new…
  • The Arts in our Lives: An Enduring Beacon in a Complex World The Boston Globe, February 15, 2009
    I am all for defeating an amendment that prohibits museums, theaters, arts centers, and zoos from receiving federal stimulus money, but an argument that somehow connects the arts with job creation is beside the point,…