Posts Tagged with ‘Music’
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
21 Nov 2015After you have read The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross you will never hear concert…
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Pete Seeger: Gone
28 Jan 2014The legendary folk singer and activist Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94. For nearly seven decades, Seeger…
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War Requiem – Music that Moves the Soul
29 Nov 2013I’ve been wanting to be at a full performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem ever since I first heard about…
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Holding on to the Music in WW II London
05 Nov 2013Bach, Grieg and World War II would seem to make an odd trio if you went no further than scanning…
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Stride Piano at SF Jazz
27 Aug 2013Wow! I had not been to the new SF Jazz center which opened this past January until Sunday night when…
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Toshi Seeger Gone
12 Jul 2013What a great woman and companion Toshi Seeger was! A good life lived. Toshi Seeger, whose husband the folk singer…
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Stop The War (The Cats Are Killing Themselves)
12 Apr 2013Michael Herr mentions this old classic in the opening pages of his Vietnam war memoir/reportage, Dispatches. Stop The War (The…
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Dueling the Devil on a Ranard-Ek in Thailand
23 Dec 2012The tale of a possessed guitar player dueling with the devil to reclaim his soul is well known among American blues fans.…
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Attila The Hun and Mao Tse-Tung in Song and Dance
15 Aug 2012I managed to crowd my Opera season into two evenings a few weeks ago, no longer able to afford the tariff for…
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Nuclear Summer: Remembered in Song
07 Aug 2012Every August, the four days of the 6th through the 9th ring like a mournful bell in the memories of…
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Earl Scruggs, 88: Gone
29 Mar 2012Oh man! Do I remember the first time I heard Flatt and Scruggs light up the room I was sequestered…
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New Orleans: A Film
13 Jun 2010Drawn by the promise of seeing a young Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday on film, doing what they were best…
