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links for 2007-04-14 /friday not-so-random ten/

• YouTube - John Fahey - Desperate Man Blues
• John Fahey - Afternoon Espee Through Salem – Music at Last.fm
• different waters: John Fahey & Jim O'rourke - Live on WNUR
• YouTube - John Fahey - In Christ There Is No East Or West
• YouTube - 'Knott's Berry Farm Molly' by John Fahey : as played by harmaline
• YouTube - Fairport Convention - Dirty Linen
• YouTube - BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Feb 2006 : The Matty Groves Perform
• Fairport Convention - (come All Ye) Rolling Minstrels Lyrics
• Stickam - Tale in hard time (fairport convention remixed by Four Tet)
• YouTube - The Battle Of Evermore (Sandy Denny singing with Led Zeppelin)

links for 2007-02-21

• My musical snobbery has jumped the shark. - Justin Patrick Schwinghamer’s blog
  "Things are bad when you're listening to Philip Glass and actually digging it."
• Celeste's Scramblings: Another massive choral car pile-up
  "Folks- we have to do a much better job coordinating the bay area choral schedule!"
• Mixed Meters: Blow Up
  "Can you find me in this picture? It appears on The Rest Is Noise - the blog of Alex Ross, New Yorker Music Critic. You can see my hairline, pony tail and not much else dead center in this photo."
• the syntax of things » 684 - we ♥ nashville
  "i always believed that this opera should be subtitled music for acid trips, but that’s only because i heard einstein on the beach for the first time on a hit of windowpane. i thought the stereo was going to start flying, seriously."
• Disquiet: downstream: T.S. ELIOT REMIX MP3S
• Hear Rock City: Miles Davis - Deep Brew
  "Aside from being among the most powerful statements in the history of recorded music, Miles Davis' 1969 Bitches Brew LP also stands as a testament to the incredible editing work of the album's producer, Teo Macero."
• if charlie parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lot of dead copycats: The Art of Communism #13
• if:book: try to take some time from your busy day
  Computer scientist Alan Kay: "Pop culture lives in the present; it doesn't really live in the future or want to know about great ideas from the past."
• PlaybillArts: News: Ojai Festival Announces 2007 Season, First Programmed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard
  "Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the French pianist noted for his championing of contemporary repertoire, will focus on the music of Ligeti, Stravinsky, Carter, Bartók and Eötvös during his first season as music director of the Ojai Festival in southern Califor
• Digital Audio Insider - The End of Patience
  "Partially because of the iPod and the ease of skipping tracks, but mostly because there's now an endless stream of new (and old) music to discover and explore."
• The Fredösphere - The Proof
  "last year, the San Francisco Choral Artists honored me by premiering my piece The Evidence for their concert entitled Wisdom of the Ages."

links for 2005-10-01

I'm playing around with formatting of my del.icio.us music links...

Bottom Feeding american jazz music dolphy

dolphy's alto solo on 'the prophet' is utterly fantastic; puts ny heart in my mouth every time i hear it. toally life-affirming. hilarious, passionate, totally surprising.

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Kinderkuchen for the FBI: Doctor Atomic doctoratomic american classical music adams opera

I will review it as opera and not as politics.

The art of Glass - Arts - Entertainment - theage.com.au glass american classical music

 But I wasn't willing to spend my life playing music for 50 people.

slow music for fast times: PGM 743 "REMASTERPIECE" classical music

Hearts of Space on electronic classical.

Music in a Suburban Scene: Philip Glass- Music in a Similar Motion (1969) glass american classical music

KFJC On-Line Reviews » Shipp, Matthew Trio - “Prism ” - [Hat Hut] shipp kfjc jazz music

which Berg work am I? berg classical music

via trin/tsr - You are Berg's masterful first opera, "Wozzeck", op. 7, a tragic and expressionistic tale of a soldier who goes mad and kills his mistress due to the lack of power and wealth. Society done did him wrong.

The Bay Buzz: Atomic music -- noises from the wings american classical music baybuzz doctoratomic opera adams

Word has from spies at rehearsals that John Adams' Dr. Atomic, premiering next month at the SF Opera, is a very musical score.

Leo Sowerby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia sowerby michigan american classical music wikipedia

in the wings: With Anticipation american classical music inthewings opera adams doctoratomic

REVIEW / Mark Morris' dances unfold further on second look thomson dance american classical music winn

Who else but Morris would see Gertrude Stein's logorrheic libretto for the 1933 Virgil Thomson opera as an occasion for winsome folk dances?

Dr. Dick's Blog: Living in Harmony  american classical music doctoratomic adams opera russia

Doctor Atomic spurs Cold War reflection

Plaster City - EARS childs american classical music

remembrance of composer Barney Childs

San Francisco Opera Tackles Nuclear Age - Yahoo! News doctoratomic adams american classical music opera sf

Lighting adds to the intensity, with the stage bathed in searing red-orange as the chorus — nurses, soldiers and civilian workers — sings of the bomb's power.

Dennis Wu: Bagatellen: San Francisco Opera premieres Adams’s new opera american classical music doctoratomic sellars adams

What you’ll find in Doctor Atomic are a lot of documents marked 'Top Secret', never intended for the public to see, which are now set for chorus and orchestra by John Adams.

WNYC - New Sounds: The "California School" (October 01, 2005) american classical music nyc adams marshall smith garland dresher

Was there really a California school of new music in the late 70s and early 80s?

ArtsJournal: PostClassic: The [Too] Tolerant Generation american classical music johnlutheradams nancarrow gann johnston ashley feldman garland varese harrison 

not honoring the father?

MercuryNews.com | 09/29/2005 | Adams & Atoms american classical music sellars adams doctoratomic

John Adams is the Tiger Woods of classical music -- a marquee name, known even to people who don't really pay attention to what he does.

Sequenza21/Doctor Atomic tonic bernstein american classical music

re: Bernstein's score for Peter Pan

The Bay Buzz: Handel Haters, in Berkeley? sf classical music

Pamela Rosenberg doesn't really hate Handel.

PlaybillArts: News: John Adams' Former Collaborator Says Doctor Atomic Is Anti-Semitic goodman doctoratomic american classical music opera sellars

Alice Goodman (via TSR)

SoundtrackNet : Glasscuts: Philip Glass Remixed Soundtrack glass american classical music remix review

links for 2005-05-05

"But the real fun begins on Monday at noon with a non-stop, 84-hour orgy devoted to Charlie Parker." smokerblog | Bird Orgy smokerblog orgy parker stream jazz

"I just found out about Present Music." Fredösphere classical music

"Growing up in Southern California, my taste in music was taught to be loyal to ska, punk and the emerging indie scene." Whatstheexperiment: The free culture of the electronica movement.

socal music electronica

"This New Sounds program is devoted to new music from California, with some brand-new Cold Blue recordings along with recent moody piano musings from Harold Budd." WNYC - New Sounds: New Music From California (May 04, 2005) coldblue budd newsounds

post about soccer *and* contemporary music. The Rambler: 1984: the opera opera music soccer

"BitTorrent is not a company - it's a technology, so when one torrent site shuts down, another will instantly take its place " Billboard PostPlay: BitTorrent As Friend, Not Foe bittorrent billboard music technology

"How did you get your experience? - My living room with Jamie Abersold records"  Redhouse Jazz: Profile - Sue Crosman jazz music redhouse

Leimodnu just bought the LCO Minimalist CD. I agree it's a good introduction. Reason and Radical: Minimalist american classical music glass heath adams

James Tenney 70th celebration, concerts in NYC :: NetNewMusic :: New Music Now! The Contemporary Music Portal - The Avant Garde Music Portal   american classical music tenney nyc 

Varèse compared to Ives and Schoenberg. Wirkman Netizen (archives) varese ives schoenberg classical american music

aworks operational note: typepad + del.icio.us + google web accelerator = argh. Also, traffic between Palo Alto and Menlo Park this evening was gridlock; the worst since the Quake of '89. The music of Lou Harrison has cheered me up, though.

 

 

links for 2005-05-04

• bookofjoe: 'Glenn Gould Live'*
  "The company has created software that can reproduce every note from scratchy, decades–old recordings, exactly as they were originally made — replicating the original pedal, damper and key positions on an actual, albeit automated, piano,"
  (tags: technology gould piano classical music canada bookofjoe)
• calimac: finding the lovable in Richard Strauss
  "My least-favorite composers in the standard orchestral repertoire are the Giganticists of the 1890-1915 period. "
  (tags: strauss classical music)
• oboeinsight : oboeinsight.com
  'Wouldn't it be kind of cool to be able to tell them "This next piece is really difficult. It scares me a lot. I have this exposed part and sometime that first note ... well ... I'm always worried that it won't come out!"
  (tags: oboeinsight concert)
• On An Overgrown Path: Big Brother is paying you
  "Quit telling us how great you are, and start telling us how you plan to deliver something that helps the user become greater."
  (tags: overgrownpath maazel wagner classical music)
• The Fredösphere:  Yes, I Was Searching For My Name on the Web
  "Call it adagiöblogging!"
  (tags: barber adagio fredosphere classical music calvinism)
• alan little’s weblog: currently listening to …
  "Kyle Gann regards Schönberg, the originator of the twelve tone concept, as a vastly overrated composer and his and his friends’ and disciples’ work as at best a moderately interesting academic curiosity. Eric Raymond and the Pope blame him..."
  (tags: schoenberg berg gann alanlittle classical music)
• The Tiger in Winter: I've never understood...
  "The Prime Minister has only ever known how to play four notes -- flattery, denial, sanctimony and outrage -- but he works them into symphonies. He's a minimalist genius. The Philip Glass of Canadian politics."
  (tags: glass canada politics)
• David Duff's Classical Blog: Catching up
  Philadelphia Orchestra has signed a record deal.
  (tags: american classical music orchestra label)
• MPR: Conscience vs. McCarthy: the political Aaron Copland
  (tags: copland american music history radio classical)
• Houston, we have reason to be cheerful -- S.F. is not alone in 'knowing how'
  Joshua Kosman writes of the Houston Opera with the hope of same for SF.
  (tags: kosman houston opera adams floyd)
• PlaybillArts: News: Meet the Composer Announces $215, 000 in Commissions
  (tags: american classical music playbill stucky heath bresnick frith larsen beglarian)
• the modern orchestra is an endangered species
  another concert avoider, although I need to be a concert goer again.
  (tags: classical music orchestra)
• David Duff's Classical Blog: Hildegard and her visions
  Hildegard's visions came from migraines?
  (tags: music history migraine)
• curtminerd.com � Blog Archive � Bingo! There Goes Your Tenure!
  "Is it really worth the trouble to write a new piece of music for an audience that doesn't care?" After all, Debbie is the taste arbiter.
  (tags: classical music composition humor)