By Myles Ludwig Hey, hey, Paula, I wanna marry you. Hey, hey, Paula, no one else could ever do. I've waited so long for school to be through, Paula, I can't wait no more for you. My love, my love. When Texas college students Ray Hildebrand and Jill Jackson wrote those lyrics to their 2-million selling record in 1963 — and changed their names to Paul and … [Read more...]
Conrad Tao: Bringing back the composer-performer
It’s easy to forget, when talking to him about his String Quartet No. 2, his global career, the new-music festival he’s organizing this summer in Brooklyn or his incisive thoughts on contemporary concert culture, that Conrad Tao is only 18 years old. But then again, he’s been a musician for virtually all of his short life. He was just 18 months old when his parents discovered … [Read more...]