Archive for February, 2006

The Moral Equivalent of Sputnik

Monday, February 27th, 2006

For many years I have been frustrated by the fact that, despite many efforts on the part of many good hearted people to offset the legacy of a cruel history beyond our immediate control, those of us involved in art music are still mostly condemned to perform for audiences that are de facto segregated.

In Memoriam: Peter Segal (1949 - 2006)

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

On Thursday last our beloved instrument lost one of its great personalities, the irrepressible, omnivorously-interested-in- everything Philadelphia based guitarist, Peter Segal.