Editor’s Note: The Selective Echo welcomes back Wendy Christensen for her regular report on the latest at Positively 4th St. Music, located on 400 South in the lower level of the Stoneground Building. Turntables are selling left and right with new and used models constantly rotating. New music releases arrive every Tuesday afternoon and special [...]

As a composer, George Crumb has effectively broken the notion of tradition-bound categories in music. From his deep love and respect of Mozart in his childhood to the popular music, jazz, folk songs, and sounds of Asian, African, and South American music that he has heard throughout his 78 years, Crumb has shown that a [...]

“Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary: That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseased; Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!” Everett Ruess – Wilderness Song As a high school sophomore, Debora Threedy took her first acting class to [...]