Andrew Shields

Billy Joel’s “The Stranger” (1977): Two great songs that create worlds; one great stanza; the rest a void

A symbol of the intensity and range of Johanna Summer’s piano playing in a duo concert with Jakob Manz

Two coordinated verbs with a gerund, or three coordinated verbs?

The two scenes repeating Pip’s childhood trauma in Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations” (1861)

The shared improvisational openness of the Wolfgang Muthspiel Chamber Trio and the Grateful Dead tribute band AoxoToxoA

Two nights with Wolfgang Muthspiel at the Bird’s Eye in Basel, 5-6 May 2026