Music
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Maybe even on vinyl, just for fun? However: Apparently it's out of print. Used CDs are available pretty inexpensively. Or I could buy it as an MP3. But on Discogs there are several LP copies at reasonable ($15-30) prices. Those are used copies, and the only reason I can think of for the discrepancy is…
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I can't find it now, but I'm almost certain that it was someone's comment here, probably Rob G's, that made me aware of Kleiber's recording of these two symphonies. I don't think it was all that long ago–five years? surely not ten?–but it was probably before I had most currently available recorded music at my…
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I guess I've heard this a dozen times or so, and it's still funny.
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When I was twenty-ish, and probably for some years afterward, I assumed that the music of my generation would be received by my children and those who came after in the way my generation received the popular music of our parents' generation–Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, and all the other music of the '30s and '40s…
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Here are two albums I've been listening to recently: Under the Milkyway…Who Cares? by Seasurfer, and everything is alive by Slowdive. (I'm following the typography used by both bands.) The first can fairly be classified as "shoegaze;" one recognizes the basic sound immediately. I think of the other as "not-shoegaze" because Slowdive helped to define the style,…
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I copied this from a Facebook post which didn't give the source, and it was too funny not to share. I have discovered just now that it's by Asher Perlman and appeared in The New Yorker. In case you don't recognize it, the logo on the guy's t-shirt is the Grateful Dead's. Originally it was…
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A friend pointed this out to me a week or two ago: the Chromatic Fantasia/Fantasy in D Minor. It's spectacular. I'm not sure I would have recognized it as Bach if I hadn't known. Or, rather, I would have wondered if it was a Bach piece with which some more modern composer had taken a…
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Dylan has a song, released on the first of the outtakes collections falsely called "bootlegs" (it's not a bootleg if it's released by the record company), called "Foot of Pride." It was recorded for the Infidels album but not used, thereby making the album weaker than it might have been. To me Infidels is one of…
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He was a smart businessman who made millions telling y'all it's okay to goof off all the time. That was my wife's observation, and I thought it was too funny to keep to myself. I mean no serious disparagement of Jimmy Buffett. I was oddly saddened when I heard of his death–oddly because I wasn't…
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Last Christmas someone gave me a biography of Bill Frisell: Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer, by Philip Watson. In case you don't know the name, Frisell is a guitarist, one of the best-known musicians on any instrument in the contemporary jazz world, though "jazz" is not the right word for much of his work: how about small-group…
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