LETTERS 4
RECENTLY DEPARTED, 5

An Interview with Leo Kraft Bruce Duffie, 7

LIVE EVENTS
On the Subject of Defenestration Theodore Wiprud, 10
More Fruit from the Almond Tree Leo Kraft, 10
It’s Grieg to Them… BLC, 11
A Painful Homecoming BLC, 12
Some Musical Risk-Taking Peter Kroll, 12
Warning Song Masks Piranha Mark Greenfest & BLC, 13
“In Rarified Company” Barry O’Neal, 14

DOTTED NOTES from…
Mark Greenfest, BLC, 15

CRITIC AT LARGE Leonard Lehrman, 16

ESSAY Allen Brings, 18

RECORDINGS
Moving Meditations BLC, 19
Operatic Bats in the Belfry Larry Vide, 20
Away with those Stereotypes Peter Kroll, 20
‘Sound Textures’ of Stanley Schumacher James T. Decker, 20