Category: Notes

Going All the Way with Beowulf

Are you geeky? Geeky enough to enjoy Beowulf in any form?  Geeky enough to hear it recited in Old English?  Geeky enough to watch Benjamin Bagby accompany his recitation with the Anglo-Saxon lyre? Dang, I’m impressed! Thanks to Greg Kamiya and his Salon essay, Beowulf vs. The Lord […]

Cosmonauts Love It

Listen and learn all about Vyachaslav Mescherin’s Soviet E-Z listening, the first music transmitted from orbit–by Sputnik.  Cosmonauts love electro-musical instruments. Scroll down to the bottom of the Third Coast Festival’s 2004 archive.