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The very first chords of ‘Leaving New York’ assure us that Around the Sun will be classic R.E.M. (more…)
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It is something near to a cleansing experience to listen through the Mozart piano repertoire as performed by Daniel Barenboim. (more…)
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I travel half the time on business. Music is my travel companion. (more…)
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The Parrot CK3100 hands-off car phone kit is not the coolest-looking gadget around. It just works.
Form lags function in this case, but the function is so good that you hardly notice. (more…)
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I spend a lot of time working out of hotel rooms, so this Logitech portable speaker system was a natural. I’ve not been disappointed. (more…)
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Along with all the good stuff in my job, there’s a potential downside: I’m ‘on’ 24/7 in time zones all over the world. One of the reasons I can manage this is my BlackBerry 7105t (T-Mobile).
But you gotta’ manage it or it will manage you. (more…)
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I begin my review of this splendid cd with a slice of musical heresy: listening to a ballet with no dancers on a stage in front of you is inevitably a partial experience. Perhaps its closest analogy is listening to film music, which presents lush harmonies and brilliant dramatic effect. But if you’ve never seen the film, you miss something. This is because music written to accompany ballet and music composed to embellish a film are inescapably programmatic. They depend to some degree on the thing they accompany.
OK, I’m over that. (more…)
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Now that the dust has settled on the careers of both Michael Jackson and Luciano Pavarotti, comparisons are apt.
Not that you’ll get many of them here. I want merely to state that listening to Pavarotti sing these seven pieces by Donizetti, Verdi, Strauss, Rossini, and (of course) Puccini is like watching a Michael Jordan highlight film. (more…)
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The biblical psalmists possess the uncanny ability to counterpose the joy of the righteous to the desolation of the wicked without actually inciting anyone to slaughter. Engaging Israel’s soul in ideological self-definition relieves her of the need to carry out vengeance on those who love evil or, in some cases, those who hate Zion.
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Posted in denkschrift, reseña on August 16, 2007| Leave a Comment »
If this classic work on the formulation of basic Christian doctrines teaches its reader anything, it is that Christian men and women once worried incessantly and carefully about matters that we moderns and post-moderns too quickly dismiss as quibbles. One can consider this obsessive and even perverse, yet it stands in stark contrast to an approach to Christian theology that is perhaps best described as careless. (more…)
Canter Bridge 