(who attended the VH-1 live taping of Chris Gaines's "Behind the Music"
episode...)
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Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:49 PM
Someone who, like him or not, everyone agrees is formidable and a true
thinker.
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:07:48 -0800
From: skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: hip hop
on 3/22/02 12:28 PM, Steve Smith at ssmith36@sprynet.com wrote:
> You got it, all right.
>
> There was a Zorn on the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation,
> too.
>
There was also a child molestor named "Zorn" and a homeless, violent crack
addict named "Roland Kirk" on LAW & ORDER.
skip h
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:09:12 -0800
From: skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: flag-waving
on 3/22/02 12:53 PM, Steve Smith at ssmith36@sprynet.com wrote:
> Chomsky? (Oops, better duck and cover...)
He'd actually do okay. he knows show-biz better then most of them eggheads.
skip h
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:13:29 -0800
From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com>
Subject: Opinions on Wolfgang Rihm?
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:48:01 -0500 "Steve Smith" wrote:
>
> NP - Wolfgang Rihm, Jagden und Formen - Ensemble Modern/My (Detusche
> Grammophon)
I don't have anything by Rihm. Am I making a mistake? I mean, is Rihm a very
original and unique voice in contemporary music?
Patrice.
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:18:31 -0800
From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com>
Subject: Re: musique concrete dead???
Caleb,
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 05:59:06 -0500 "Caleb T. Deupree" wrote:
>
> It is undeniable that Stockhausen's Gesang ended *a* debate that was raging
> in the late 1940s-early 1950s about concrete vs. electronic music. But if
> there is a *musical* definition of musique concrete instead of just a
> historical one (and I believe there is), the genre is clearly alive and
> well.
Thanks for the recommendations! I should definitely check some of them
out. And yes, your description seem to fit quite well what I understand
to be the spirit of MUSIQUE CONCRETE.
Patrice.
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:26:22 -0800
From: florid oratory <connah@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: willie nels(on) cline
these folks are about to embark on a nationwide tour, plus a few canadian
shows. the only date i know off the top of my head is
Tucson april 27th with sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
tourdates can probably be obtained at scottamendola.com
or nelscline.com
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> From: "Steve Smith" <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
> Subject: Willie Nels(on) Cline
>
> A most delightful thing coming up at Tonic that I couldn't help sharing...
>
> - --Fri, Apr 19--
> * Carla Bozulich & Friends Play Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger at 8pm,
> $10
> Nels Cline will be backing Carla up on guitar and lap steel with his new
> trio,
> The Nels Cline Singers. Both Carla and Nels are members of The (long
> sleeping)
> Geraldine Fibbers. Performance of this classic Willie Nelson album is a
> heartfelt compulsion. The new arrangements you'll hear at this concert
> reflect
> possible risks and variations inspired by the free spirit of the original
> album.
>
> * The Nels Cline Singers at 10pm, $10
> With Nels Cline (guitar), Scott Amendola (drums) and Devin Hoff (upright
> bass).
> Cline calls his new trio The Nels Cline Singers even though there are no
> singers in the band. Nels displays a mastery of guitar expression that
> encompasses delicate lyricism, sonic abstractions, and skull crunching
> flights
> of fancy, inspiring Jazz Times to call him, "The World's Most Dangerous
> Guitarist."
>
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:27:06 -0500
From: <wlt4@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Naxos Jazz [was RE: How Come?]
>I've been enjoying the whole Naxos Jazz Legends series, a line of single-disc compilations
I've especially liked the Bechet disc which is very consistent and has some amazing performances. The Waller is also quite good though the sound can tend to be a bit spotty.
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:29:10 -0800
From: "Patrice L. Roussel" <proussel@ichips.intel.com>
Subject: Re: Naxos Jazz [was RE: How Come?]
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:27:06 -0500 wlt4@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> >I've been enjoying the whole Naxos Jazz Legends series, a line of single-disc compilations
>
> I've especially liked the Bechet disc which is very consistent and has some
Does it feature "The Mooche"?
Patrice.
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:38:46 -0500
From: "Steve Smith" <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: RE: Opinions on Wolfgang Rihm?
I've not heard that much by Rihm, and perhaps even less that really caught
my ear in a major way. I recently missed the U.S. premiere of a new concerto
he wrote for string quartet and orchestra, which was played by the Emerson
Quartet and the Cleveland Orchestra. The Arditti Quartet played it in
Europe, as well. The Cleveland Plain Dealer's reviewer loathed the piece;
some others were more even-handed, but in separate interviews I conducted,
both Gene Drucker from the quartet and Christoph von Dohnanyi (music
director of the Cleveland Orchestra) told me that the piece was, well,
difficult and not very pretty.
That said, I've really been enjoying this new disc of 'Jagden und Formen,' a
roughly hour-long piece for chamber orchestra. It's vivacious and bristling
with energy, and reminds me by turns of Stravinsky's 'Sacre' (without the
tunes, of course), middle period Steve Reich (in the motoric, repeated
rhythm cells), perhaps even Varese hopped up on too much back coffee. The
Ensemble Modern can play the shit out of anything placed in front of them,
naturally, and the scoring for winds is especially pithy. Late in the piece,
a bass guitar is brought in to reinforce the rumble, too.
Interestingly, the notes describe the work as being a perpetually
unfinished, open-form composition, like several of Boulez's scores that he's
constantly retouching and revising. This recording, then, should be
understood as a documentation but not a definitive rendition. The notes are
rather precious, but the packaging is just gorgeous, and given the
unlikeliness of having another recording made, I think you're safe buying
this if you're curious. And I, too, would be curious to hear other opinions
regarding Rihm's work - I know Anne-Sophie Mutter has recorded a violin
concerto I've not heard.
One last note, however - this disc hasn't been released in the US as yet,
and might not make it out here until the fall, when Universal relaunches the
Detusche Grammophon 20/21 series. (I got mine by squealing with anticipation
in a Universal publicist's office...) There are a few other things in that
series that are out in Europe but not here, including a large scale
orchestral work by someone named Boesmans that includes the Belgian
prog-rock band AKA Moon, and also a disc of recent pieces by Peter
Lieberson. Personally, I think such delays in releasing things is just one
more example of why the classical recording industry in this country is in
such relatively bad shape...
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:40:39 -0500
From: "Steve Smith" <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Subject: RE: Naxos Jazz [was RE: How Come?]
No.
Steve Smith
ssmith36@sprynet.com
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