In Defense of Sandler’s “Hallelujah”

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 14, 2012 Audio/Video, Music

Click Here to Read View: In Defense of Sandler’s “Hallelujah” The comic wasn’t butchering Leonard Cohen’s classic. He was rescuing it By Liel leibovitz on the Tablet website on December 13, 2012.

Click Here to Listen: Leonard Cohen singing his song Hellelujah on YouTube.

Jazz musician Dave Brubeck dies at 91

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 11, 2012 Music, Obituaries

Click here to read “Jazz musician Dave Brubeck dies at 91” by Hiram Lee from World Socialist Web Site on December 10, 202.

Charles Limb on Neuroscience of Jazz

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 11, 2012 Audio/Video, Music, Science News

Click here to watch “Charles Limb on Neuroscience of Jazz,” Limb’s TED Talk from 2010.

Listening to Dave Brubeck

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 6, 2012 Music, Obituaries

Click here to listen to tracks and performances by the influential jazz pianist, Dave Brubek, who died Wednesday at 91.

Juniper Tree Opera

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 1, 2012 Music

Click Here to View: Full Teaser, music from Juniper Tree at last! on You Tube.

You may recall that several years ago, APsaA was awarded a grant by the IPA to study the most effective ways in which to reach the 10,000 Best Minds of the next generation. Then Continue reading Juniper Tree Opera

A classical music critic’s take on ‘Mahler on the Couch’

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 25, 2012 Movies, Music

Click Here to Read: A classical music critic’s take on ‘Mahler on the Couch’:Examining the enduring genre of the composer biopic By Jeremy Eichler in the Boston Globe on November 23, 2012.

How We Met: Oliver Sacks & Tobias Picker

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 23, 2012 Books, Music

Click Here to Read: How We Met: Oliver Sacks & Tobias Picker By Rhiannon Harries in the Independent on September 26, 2010.

Oliver Sacks & Tobias Picker

Artifact: A musician’s struggle against a giant corporation

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 19, 2012 Business and Finance, Music

Click Here to Read: Artifact: A musician’s struggle against a giant corporation By Robert Fowler on the World Socialist Web Site on November 19, 2012,