Modern concert music

Simone Dinnerstein Plays The Cohen Variations

Simone Dinnerstein Plays The Cohen Variations

My knowledge of music from the 60s is limited, and I usually don’t have much patience for repetitive melodies, but you can count me as a new fan of Leonard Cohen and his most popular song, “Suzanne.”

Pulling Bach’s Music into 21st Century

Pulling Bach’s Music into 21st Century

I think the best definition of polyphony that I ever heard was from Arthur Jacobs, who defined it as “the simultaneous combination of two or more melodies to make musical sense.”