Glass as Romantic (1981-Style)  I’m back from the Einstein on
the Beach festivities in Amsterdam, and Friday at 3 I’ll be
giving a reading from my 4’33” book at the National Academy
Museum in New York City. [No, I won’t stand there without saying
anything. Ha-ha.]  UPDATE: You can ignore the following. Frank
Oteri wants to put my Einstein analysis on New Music Box, where
it will reach a wider audience. Going commercial, at whatever
modest level, is always better than going academic when you have
the chance, if you can do so without compromises. So I’ve pulled
the article off my website, and will announce when it’s on NMBx.
As for my paper on Einstein, I decided for now not to blog it,
but to put it up on my web site, so you’ll find “Intuition and
Algorithm in Einstein on the Beach” there. I’ve seen a lot of
scholars post scholarly articles on their web sites, and it
strikes me that it carries just a touch more gravitas than doing
it on one’s blog. It would be nice to have it in a journal
somewhere and be an