Tag: John Burdick Village Voices

Like most festival-orchestra summer programs, Music in the Mountains did aim to please, when required to. On or near the ...

The Retro-H was small and vaguely girlish though not by comparison to, say, the discontinued Daisy Rock Debutante Butterfly, a ...

Of course it occurs to me that the leisurely pace, the personable rhythm of podcasts — coupled with great, well-researched ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that young bands enjoy the enormous advantage of the spontaneous, easily mobilized fan base. ...

You try to carry the nervous system imprint from one unit to the next. You try to extrapolate eight hours, ...

A little virus with a few unfortunate mutations in its recent past has laid bare the collectivism-whether-you-want-it-or-not that is more ...

The fiery, life-of-the-mind, maverick teacher is an American archetype: the mercurial, off-script renegade in perpetual hot water with the administration, ...

The poetry worked, just as well as if it had all been Philip Larkin-grade. It helped my friend realize that ...

Want a sequence of tasks that build toward definable goals on the instrument, results guaranteed or your money back? An ...

Galway scrawled a plea for help and pinned it to my father’s door — a proper ballad stanza, a quatrain ...

The myth of progress teaches us implicitly that technological advancement is for the better, is benevolent, and is advancing us ...

When I see art that moves me, which is often, I yell, “It feels good in my eye!” and just ...

ImmorTech was a suite of branding tools, tour-management methodologies, and medical technologies (vitamin regimens, oxygen chambers and other, stranger proprietary ...

Indoor live music seems to be slated for a phase 16 or 17 return. And even then, how many venues ...

The English language is biased in favor of the verse foot known as the iamb — an unaccented syllable followed ...

I read enough comments to toughen the hide, spark a little introspection, and hammer down any uppity hedgehogs of self-regard, ...

I'm for a new middle class: diverse and inclusive, streamlined for leaner times and attuned to planetary crisis, reduced to ...

I worked the life-eating second shift, three in the afternoon to eleven. The young men my age with permanent positions, ...

Long ago, I stopped keeping track of the proliferative categories and subcategories of electronic music -- Downstep Miami Dry Chill, ...

I miss travel more now than ever. I hunger for the remote and the isolated. Cities always make me feel ...