The Rehearsal Studio

A place to exercise ideas before writing about them with greater discipline.

Sunday, December 7, 2025

Another DSO Coupling: Bruch and Brahms

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Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider playing Bruch’s first violin concerto while leading DSO (screenshot from the livestream being discussed) Early yeste...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Terry Riley: Another Ten Trips Around the Sun

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Photographs of Sarah Cahill and Terry Riley (courtesy of Jensen Artists) American composer Terry Riley was born on June 24, 1935. Some rea...

Trio MediƦval Returns to SFP with New Vocalist

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Hildegard of Bingen with nuns, possibly leading them in chant (source unknown, public domain, from a Wikimedia Commons Web page ) Last nig...
Friday, December 5, 2025

An AI Afterthought

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Reflecting back on yesterday's thoughts about artificial intelligence (AI), I realize that, in the context of the  Computers and Though...

“Kindermusik” Album for Father and Son

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Having written yesterday about the “Holly, Jolly” spirit of Christmas at the Cadillac Hotel, I would now like to turn to a more secular app...
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Stephen Smoliar
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