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MAP (Musicians at Play)

For Lukas Foss at 100

Aug 15, 2022 •

Matthew Guerrieri

January 2022

Emerging from hibernation with a guest post for Ethan Iverson’s Do the Math: “James P. Johnson Gets Dressed.”

Jan 27, 2022 •

Matthew Guerrieri

September 2021

Es treibt mich hin, es treibt mich her

Packing and unpacking

Sep 3, 2021 •

Matthew Guerrieri

August 2021

Qui, o là... secondo…

Puccini, the bomb, and the veneer of narrative.

Aug 9, 2021 •

Matthew Guerrieri

Vast wastelands

There’s forthcoming writing on Serious Topics in the works, but, in the meantime, I made an album. Available now on Bandcamp for the tidy sum of a…

Aug 3, 2021 •

Matthew Guerrieri

April 2021

You're Gonna Hear from Me

…every ten months. (Hey-O!) The inimitable Ms. Warwick graciously introduces a new Soho the Dog mini-series: André Previn’s Jazz. Sometimes, taking on a…

Apr 20, 2021 •

Matthew Guerrieri

July 2020

Once upon a time

I’ve been thinking a lot as of late about classical music, as a category and an industry, and how it’s like comic books—specifically, how it traffics in…

Jul 8, 2020 •

Matthew Guerrieri

May 2020

A lot of what you'd call the most

Little Richard and Marlon Brando, playing roles.

May 14, 2020 •

Matthew Guerrieri

March 2020

Pulling combs through a backwash frame

When the plague hit Milan in 1576, the aristocrats and the governor fled. The bishop, Charles Borromeo, stayed. He made his will, picked out a place in…

Mar 16, 2020 •

Matthew Guerrieri

Procrastination stole my time

For a soundtrack to this post, I was going to link to my favorite British glam-rock-spawned song with the title “Fever of Love,” only to discover that…

Mar 10, 2020 •

Matthew Guerrieri

February 2020

Technical styles that'll be full of technology

Because Soho the Dog’s critic-at-large, Helena B., had last week off, I did, too (at least on the newsletter front). Here’s what you may have missed…

Feb 24, 2020 •

Matthew Guerrieri

I was born a motivation

On the job: National Symphony Orchestra considers the one and the many (Washington Post, February 7, 2020) (Plus one I forgot to link to last week: At…

Feb 10, 2020 •

Matthew Guerrieri

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