links for 2007-06-10

• jane's addiction nothing's shocking album cover sculpture or real women? - Yahoo! Search Results
  referrer of the day
• Amazon.com: Nothing's Shocking: Music: Jane's Addiction
  NSFW. Not particularly real on closer inspection of the, er, art.
• Dial "M" for Musicology: The One Remark
  In the middle of my Philip Glass obsession, I really wonder the genesis of his style. It's not just his working with R. Shankar in Paris, right? By the way, I'm not suggesting Glass' work is extraordinary. Or am I?
• Musical Assumptions: Ellington Symphonic Music Concert
  "He speaks of Ellington in the present tense, which makes sense because when you play a piece of music it is happening in the present tense. The composer is there because the music is there."
• Opera Chic: Are You A Critic? You're Fired, Says Maestro Maazel
  Maazel: 'Even a hardliner like Maderna, close to death, realised that the only opera he really wanted to conduct was Don Giovanni".'
• Orange Crate Art: Ellington in Illinois
  "To hear the roaring end of A Tone Parallel to Harlem played by an orchestra -- all I can say is that I was there, and I heard it, and I'll never forget it."
• Felsenmusick: Why Can't The Walrus Read?
  "But my experience is that innocence is not only the opposite of guilt, it's the opposite of wisdom--of "experience," be it spoken of by Blake or by Hendrix."
• Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass, and the Iceberg » Heck Of A Guy
  "I confess that the only effect listening to a Glass composition has ever had on me is to deepen the conviction that I am indeed a Philistine."
• TuneGlue° | Relationship Explorer
  Musical relationships, that is.
• Monotonous Forest: Groggy, but not as much as some
  "The group's nocturnal offering was Edgard Varèse's Ionisation (1931). Ensemble director Steve Schick introduced it as "the greatest percussion piece ever written," and he might be right, especially after this precise, glittering reading"
• Sic Semper Tyrannis: Stuff I've been listening to as of late...
  Bitches Brew: 'Also features a lot of recorded evidence of the elusive creature known as the "jazz-rock bass clarinet."' Yes!!!