Brian Lauritzen

To be clear, Nemo LeBron still has his vile website (T.M.Z. Bach, or whatever it’s called), but for someone who tirelessly boasts about access to have access bring him down at the BBC is at least a juicy stanza of poetry.

Yuja Wang getting Normal Leblech fired is not something I had on my 2026 bingo card, but I’m very much here for it.

I know everyone in #classicalmusic had their hot takes about Tár back when it came out. I didn't really have a strong opinion so I kept quiet. However...it lives rent-free in my head that the creators thought any record company anywhere would greenlight an album of Mahler 5 + Elgar's Cello Concerto.

God damn, America.

I desperately want to write said takedown, but I’m not a critic and it’s truly not my place.

I’m very certain I know who you’re referring to but definitely won’t name him here.

Washington National Opera Is Leaving the Kennedy Center The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned by declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.

Breaking News: The Washington National Opera is leaving the Kennedy Center after President Trump’s intervention upset artists and donors. The opera has performed there since 1971.

New year; new project.

A philosophical/emotional/narrative exploration of why we LOVE the music we love.

There is, of course, not one correct answer to any of the questions I pose in these episodes. However, I do hope you will find this new series compelling.

www.kusc.org/why-we-love-...

Thanks, y’all! Had a blast putting them together. (Also had pizza for dinner tonight…)

YouTube video by Béla Fleck - Topic Twelve Days Of Christmas

You can listen here: youtu.be/g-vCauX4lYI?...

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones for me. 12 days, 12 different key + time signatures

annual reminder

It’s a song about a guy who creeps around in public parks befriending kids and, once he gains their trust, leads them into a busy intersection in defiance of law enforcement because, as he explains to the kids, he’s dying anyway.

Frosty the Snowman is chaotic evil.

That thing where your Sunday at home concludes with you and your 14-month-old searching for your belly buttons, turning light switches on and off, and putting underwear on your head. #WeekendWarrior

Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
Doctor Atomic
Doctor Granvil
Doctor Miracle
“Doctor” Despina
The Doctor in Wozzeck…okay, maybe not

L.A. classical station KUSC slashes staff after federal funding cuts to public radio The USC-owned station, known as Classical California, lost $1.1 million that was previously allocated by the Corp. for Public Broadcasting.

Yup. Yesterday was horrible.

I’m sorry what now???

i see your "on stage naked" anxiety dream and raise you "at the podium realizing you brought the wrong eulogy and don't know anything about the actual dead guy"

Y’all. Neither Itzhak Perlman nor Yo-Yo Ma is in the hospital. Can we stop with the fake AI content sharing, please?

when you discover a secret headphone jack in the studio that revolutionizes the ergonomics of your daily workflow and also the united states senate votes to eliminate your federal funding

Classical bass legend Charlie Burrell dies at 104 The “Jackie Robinson of classical music” and former Denver Symphony Orchestra bassist called Colorado home for much of his life.

RIP Charles Burrell, WWII Veteran and the first Black musician to sign a contract with an American orchestra, who passed away this week at the age of 104. www.cpr.org/2025/06/17/c...

One of the darkest days for Public Media.

Call your representatives in Congress and tell them to kill this bill, not the news and music.

Radio is still the #1 consumed medium in the United States. It is the medium which has the greatest reach and has the easiest entry point. It is a medium which doesn't discriminate based on race, income, or gender. The time to fight for it is now.

It's incumbent upon those of us with the resources, reach, donor capacity, audience advocates, to ACT NOW. We owe it to our Public Radio/TV siblings to fight for them.

Most, if not all, of these stations would be lost. Elect a racist president; reap racist results.

KUSC, KCRW, and KPCC (LAist) will be fine. Most of the Public Radio stations in the United States will not. The entire industry, therefore, is in existential crisis.

Additionally, CPB funding cuts would disproportionately affect Native and African American stations. The average dependence on CPB funding for Native American Public Media stations is 53%. The average dependence on CPB funding for stations in the African-American Public Radio Consortium is 26%.

Some Public Radio stations rely on CPB funding for more than 90% of their operating budget. Understandably, these are the stations in the most rural areas of our country--ie. the places where the potential for on-air fundraising is maximally minimal.

However, we are the outliers. The average Public Radio station receives 14.5% of its budget from CPB funding. (The figures for Public TV are even higher.)

If Public Radio stations which relied on CPB funding for more than 10% of their budget lost that revenue, 34% of them would cease operations.