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A pair of South African friends with impeccable musical taste implored me to buy this CD, alleging that my life would be impoverished without it.
I’m not convinced. Continue Reading »
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The Philips Classics series has many appealing features, not least of which is good value. This series typically offers two CDs for the price of about one-and-a-half. They feature top-rank and often legendary performers. Finally, they are digitally remastered recordings from the sixties and seventies, many of which rank as standard-bearing readings of the classical canon. Continue Reading »
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I remember the day my friend’s young teenage daughter Lee Anne belted out a slightly off-key Karaoke version of her near namesake Lee Ann Womack’s ‘I Hope You Dance’ and introduced me to this strong female Nashville voice. A quick trip to the music store later, I owned the Dance cd, my first prolonged exposure to the somewhat more mainstream sound than is common both to previous and subsequent Womack offerings.
It’s beautiful music, the critics be damned. Continue Reading »
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A perfect chaos absorbs the street of Cairo, the most splendid disregard for safe conduct that the mind can imagine.
It is as though millennia of human experience in self-preservation have been sucked out of the atmosphere, leaving men and women to fling themselves moth-like into the lamp, banging time and time against glass, seeking out with obsessive will the consuming flame, loving ten times more the wick than the placid darkness where a moth might fly all night long to its heart’s content. Continue Reading »
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Back then, ‘work stoppage’ belonged to the patois of the factory, not the baseball diamond.
It had not yet become the lingua franca that mediates between the players’ ‘strike’ and the owners’ ‘lockout’. You played baseball for fun and for as long as you could, and you assumed everyone else who could did the same. The idea of deciding not to play baseball had not occurred to us, perhaps like the concept ‘Interstate Highway’ before the invention of the wheel. If picketing at the plant meant some kids ate tuna fish for two weeks straight, at least you could comfort yourself with the Phillies’ box score in the morning paper. If they had beat up on the Mets, labor disputes or a dad’s missed paycheck seemed a slightly irritating footnote. Continue Reading »
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Mahler’s fourth symphony is perhaps most memorable for its unsettlingly gorgeous second movement,entitled ‘In gemächlicher Bewegung. Ohne Hast.’ Continue Reading »
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A Newsboys worship album is not a Picasso. It is not abstract and perplexing. Music lovers who want profound mystery and enigmatic musical arrangements need look elsewhere. Continue Reading »
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The very first chords of ‘Leaving New York’ assure us that Around the Sun will be classic R.E.M. Continue Reading »
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It is something near to a cleansing experience to listen through the Mozart piano repertoire as performed by Daniel Barenboim. Continue Reading »
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I travel half the time on business. Music is my travel companion. Continue Reading »
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Canter Bridge 