T.D.

I received the following odd notice today: "Mosaic Records Shipping Notification TOTAL ORDER SHIPPED The following items have been forwarded to our warehouse for shipment. Thank you for very much your support! You will receive a notice with tracking # when the warehouse ships. If you ordered via the website, this order # is not the same as your web order #.... These two numbers are different but refer to the same order." So it's both shipped and not yet shipped.

I'm on PC and use Google Chrome browser. The "site information" button at the upper left of the browser, next to the URL field, has always shown "Not secure". I don't know for sure, but doubt it's a problem because none of my antivirus software has ever objected. According to Chrome online help, "Not secure" means: The site isn't using a private connection. Someone might be able to see or change the information you send or get through this site. On some sites, you can visit a more secure version of the page: Select the address bar. Delete http://, and enter https:// instead. If that doesn't work, contact the site owner to ask that they secure the site and your data with HTTPS. I just tried the https:// fix and it didn't work. Not going to bother Jim with the request.

I bit the bullet and signed up for Facebook (using a fake name) in order to avoid that problem. New series coming up on NoBusiness Records. Good news! Also see NoBusiness Facebook page.

It ain't just the critic or the audience, it can be the hall itself! Anecdote: right around the turn of the century (the late) Michael Gielen, a big advocate of contemporary music, conducted a German orchestra in a couple of adventurous programs at Carnegie Hall. One was B. A. Zimmermann's Requiem for a Young Poet (very much out there), the other included music by Maurico Kagel and Gyorgy Kurtag plus Beethoven's Eroica Symphony (fairly out there with a sop to tradition). In line to buy a ticket, I overheard a conversation between a customer and a box office employee. The ticket seller behind the counter said, referring to the Beethoven/Kagel/Kurtag program: "You probably won't be interested in this German dud..."

I don't think that behavior is uncommon among subscription symphony ticket buyers (a musically conservative lot). In my experience, NY Philharmonic audiences (notoriously conservative) would have done exactly the same thing, and even at Carnegie Hall there would have been significant intermission departures. The sequencing and strategic placement of the intermission suggests that the Dallas Symphony knew full well what would happen.

Thanks for the heads up. Have and enjoy the original, good chance I'll pick up the reissue.

PM sent on Terry Riley - Keyboard Suites (mDG Scene German import) $6 light marks that do not affect play Sofia Gubaidulina - Complete Works for Solo Piano (Transart Live) $7 Mozart - Integrale des 6 Quintettes a Cordes Talich Quartet (3 cds on Calliope) $10

And they're increasingly sneaking in higher shipping fees, in the high $4s rather than standard $3.99. Agreed on both new and used CDs. Have greatly upped my purchases from discogs, and have resumed ordering from importcds.

There's a long-standing British classical label called Nimbus, widely known to audiophiles as having "tubby" piano sound. Surprised that the above Nimbus didn't run into a conflict re. duplicate name.

Recent interview in NewMusicBox

That's my favorite era of Pink Floyd. Not a big enough fan to currently own any recordings, but back in the day I highly enjoyed Atom Heart Mother, Ummagumma and Meddle. The really early material was slightly before my time.

Going to see this in a theater this weekend.

That version of Xenakis' Kraanerg (Bornstein / ST-X ensemble) is a good one if you're into that sort of thing (yeah, the participation of DJ Spooky looks questionable, but the electronics "work"). The Hindemith (underrated composer IMO) quartets are worth a listen, but I already own the Danish Qt. set on cpo.

Oxfordshire is fine and shipping doesn't take overly long. No experience with Rarewaves and I haven't ordered from Moviemars in recent memory. In my experience, postage from Europe does get knocked around a bit. The Black Saint boxes I've bought all sustained heavy nicks to the box (discs were unaffected); just bought a 2-CD set from NoBusiness (Latvia) and the jewel box was trashed but discs OK.

Gack. That mind-numbing rhetoric. After scanning the promotional text (my eyes glazed over and I couldn't make it all the way through), I have no desire to hear the music. And it's not a political/ideological bias (I tend to be "on their side"), I simply can't stand such pretentious and gaseous writing. I don't think the "dichotomy" passage even parses.

[Emphasis added] Damn. I paid via Paypal, so they charged my credit card immediately, rather when the disc ships.

FWIW, the Mosaic page linked to in the e-mail leads with "Charles Tolliver All Stars Mosaic Singles" +1. I have not been bullish on Mosaic's future, but this is a very positive sign.

I get the impression it's a documentary (decline to register at the link given, so can't read much). If that's so, I'm in. OTOH, less interest in another fictionalized treatment. I didn't love the Don Cheadle film.

Recent one already noted in a Reissues thread here.

(slaps forehead) The Brothers is a good one I kick myself for missing. Another old (blue) Prestige:

I only became a jazz fan in the CD era, so covers haven't been such a big thing. This is a big favorite, though perhaps not the most original choice....