Terry Teachout has died. He died this Thursday.
I enjoyed reading Teachout's "About Last Night" blog for years and also appreciate his biography of Duke Ellington. I learned of it through Ethan Iverson's interview and read Teachout's response noting that he appreciated that Iverson gave him some pushback on things he did say and not things he didn't. Let the reader understand.
Also this week Angelo Gilardino, the great Italian guitarist composer, has died.
I might not be posting a ton at the blog for a while. The world of classical guitar has been immensely enriched by Gilardino's life and work and I'll have to write more about some of his work later this year but at the moment I think I might take a bit of a hiatus to collect my thoughts (and take a break from posting, for that matter).
UPDATE 1-16-2022
some thoughts from Ted Gioia and Ethan Iverson (and Heather Sessler) about Terry Teachout.
It's worth mentioning, if only briefly, that Angelo Gilardino worked to further the music of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, whose music for the guitar was conservative and "Hollywood" but in the best possible sense of the term, glowing sounds and actual tunes (I need to get around to blogging more about his work at some point, too, really).
Here's a sampling of some of Gilardino's work
It would be too much to blog through the sixty studies! I plan to blog through is five magnificent solo guitar sonatas later this year. There needs to be more English-language writing about this titan of the classical guitar.
