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I saw Pierrot Lunaire live once, performed by people who really understood music in general. There was phrasing, dynamics, color, a place for every note, every note in its place, in service to the whole, the narrative, everything was just right. It was amazing. (and btw, that piece is atonal, but not serial, he had not yet developed the serial technique). So yeah, fuck this trolling shit. I'm being asked to laugh at what in my experiences are lies. Why am I expected to laugh, and why am I expected to overlook the lies? What kind of a mind engages in that type of thing, overlook a lie and then laugh at its objects? What kind of disease are we trying to spread with this kind of discomboutational venom? I don't think it's at all healthy to drive the bus down that road, it's overcrowded with enough lemmings as it is, and we all know where it ends up.

I am SO glad that I have no conscious memories of this:

The question then and now (especially now) - how are things in your town? That voice, always that voice.

Whoa, 98! A totally amazing artist. RIP

It's a blessing - and a privilege - to be in service one more time.

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Media pimps.

I can get those two tunes confused if I don't hear them regularly, and I haven't experienced that for a bit longer than just beginning in 2016. no matter - pay the man.

Berg/Stravinsky __________________________ CD 3.99 Chamber Concerto/Concerto In E Flat Major/8 Instrumental Miniaturen/Ebony Concerto -- Barenboim/Zukerman/Arrignon/Boulez/Ensemble InterConte George Crumb/Anton Webern/Witold Lutoslaws CD Black Angels/String Quartet Op 28/String Quartet -- Cikada Quartet Lutoslawski ______________________________ CD Complete Works For String Orchestra -- Preludes Et Fugue/Ouverture/Musique Funebre/Grave/Five Folk Melodies -- Jean Paul Dessy/Orchestre Royal De Chambre De Wallonie

One person, many people, ex uno plures (and yes, I had to look that one up).

That how the people who worked with him when he was around here said it. "AHN-zee", same as you have it, depending on how you pronounce "on".

Baseball is a game. MLB is a business. Changes to the game will be made as the owners of the business see fit. Players have a say/leverage, but ultimately, ownership either does something or doesn't. So...how stupid are they?

That's Hazel doing the instigating on Blakey's "Moaning'", the live one from Paris that burns down the cornfield.

Ivie was beyond category. Ozzie Bailey, yeah! Tony Watkins too. Other than Ivie, Ellington's vocalists, the male ones in particular, seem to have been less than universally loved in their time. There's been at best a partial market correction since. But jeez, they were pretty much always there in some form or fashion, so what does that say about Duke? Pretty much that that "thing" was a part of his palette and damned if he wasn't going to use it. You can't see the whole picture unless you see every color, texture, shape, etc/whatever. And with Duke, there's no end to how much of that there is, from beginning to end. I entertain no illusions that I'll ever be able to see the entire picture all at once, other than the people who were there all the way, and ultimately, that's Duke and nobody else. It was his to create, it's ours to discover, and unless/until proven otherwise, it's as close to infinite as there is. Now, having said all that - Money Johnson, hmmmm....

No love for Milt Grayson?

Is that Nicole Kidman on the cover of that record or is it Rob Lowe? I swear, she looks more or less totally different in every role, not jsut a little different, but a LOT different. I think she might not wholly contain Earth Human in her DNA, so wild is her appearancial variability.

40 years old, and I swear it gets better with every listen. Right now it's at "whoa, pretty damn good, actually, how did this happen?" level. Ok, "Tai Chi" sucks, but now that I'm not letting him get in my way, Larry Coryell is no longer a nuisance, and Sonny is flowing freely. Granted freeing freely in the "Studio Sonny" manner, but as always I ask - who the hell else in the world has or could ever play like this? and perspective reveals itself.

Welk was not worthy!

...two for the time...

With a few year's distance, it still sounds very, very good. There's a lot of music here.

One of the first 10 or so jazz records that I ever heard, and one of the 2-3 from that batch I still revisit, still fondly. Sure seems like a "cut above" from that band.

Look, it's like the Beatles!