Tag Archives: Alfred Newman

entertainer

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dave

It is very doubtful that Marvin Hamlisch would have agreed with the premise put forth by Theodor Adorno that …”from the middle of the nineteenth century on, good music had renounced commercialism altogether.” It was clearly more craft than art. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alfred Newman, barbara streisand, Irving Berlin, Maimonides on music, Maimonides philosopher, Marvin Hamlisch, Marvin Hamlisch A Chorus Line, Marvin Hamlisch Scott Joplin, Marvin Hamlisch The Sting, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

somewhere between 2 B.C. and 6 A.D.

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Dave

There was the Year One. In the sixth century, Dionysius Exiguus presented a calculation of the “first year of our Lord”; it was slightly inaccurate, given the scant and conflicting evidence in the Gospels, and on neither of those accounts … Continue reading →