The Friday Informer: What's that thing about the rock and the glass house?

The Friday Informer: What’s that thing about the rock and the glass house?

In which we pass judgment on Mozart, music, the midwest, and you! (Okay, that last part was just to get your attention.)

Written By

Molly Sheridan

Photo of the Week
Stephen Vitiello and Julie Mehretu’s untitled collaborative work for the 2006 Sydney Biennale. Take a listen.
Photo by Stephen Vitiello.
  • New, serious…let’s call it “grown-up music“! That’ll sell tickets. (It could be worse. Stones’ fans just got saddled with “geezer rock“.)
  • Thom Yorke did not score “Creep” for bass-clarinet quartet. And now we all know why. [via music for maniacs]
  • Don’t like Mozart? Just shut up. You’re wrong. And you—you’re nothing like him.
  • Guns, beer, and symphonic music—this is how we do it in the Midwest.
  • And this is why orchestra musicians should never date.
  • Think your composition teacher is tough? Axl Rose’s editor has made him cry, too. [via secret society]
  • Pedophiles, pizza, and pre-emptive reviews from a composer-in-residence at a rent-by-the-hour hotel in Rochester. And that’s just the first week.