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NYSAE Concert This Sunday

March 28th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

Sunday at 3 p.m., an all-classical program of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Silas Huff conducts, Andrew Janss is the soloist in a Haydn ‘cello concerto.

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The End Of The Record Store As We Know It

March 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Music |

I love record stores. But I suppose the simple fact that I use the phrase “record store” dates me as a child of the pre-digital age. Maybe I should say, I love music stores. But then that’s a little confusing instead, because a music store is something more like Patelson‘s. But little by little in [...]

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Big Time

March 9th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

LF and I were watching the (really outstanding) Ovation cable channel the other night, and this 1988 Tom Waits movie came up. Here’s a clip, “Shore Leave.”

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BSO Concert Sunday

February 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

No, not that BSO. The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.

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Music From The BBE Concert

February 17th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Movies, Music |

I just got my master CD of the last orchestra concert, and to celebrate I’m putting up an audio clip of some band music.

For a few minutes there, we were the best concert band in town. Er, wind ensemble.

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Another Concert Plug

February 13th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

It’s a busy couple of weeks around here, at least on the music side of things. This Sunday, the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble is playing a nice concert of Liszt and Mendelssohn. Steven Graff is doing the Liszt Concerto No. 1, and as an encore a cute little Capriccio by Felix M., whose 200th [...]

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Happy Birthdays

February 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music, Politics, Science |

Tomorrow is the 200th birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. If you stretch it out to last week you can add Felix Mendelssohn. The three of them within a week and a half. Does that strike you as a lot of “household name” people to be born in such a short period of time?

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Broadway Bach Ensemble Concert

February 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

This Sunday if you’re in the area come out and hear The Broadway Bach Ensemble’s winter concert.

Where: Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114th and Broadway, NYC
When: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 2 p.m.
Cost: Free

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It Was 40 Years Ago Today

January 31st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

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Lydia Johnson Dance

January 30th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

Lydia Johnson runs a professional dance company out of our sister town, South Orange, here in New Jersey. I’ve been doing their web site for over a year, and last spring she invited me and daughter C. to a performance at SOPAC of some of their new works. Here’s one of them:

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Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks

January 28th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

The Nighthawks specialize in period big-band music, authentic numbers from roughly 1919 through the thirties, with solos lovingly transcribed from the original recordings.

And while they play on original instruments using some of Vince Giordano’s collection of some 30,000 original charts, he’s certainly not the Thurston Dart of classic jazz. When Giordano lays into his aluminum-body upright bass, his David Lynch forelock waving back and forth like a metronome, the band is rocketing the tempo way past 200 to the quarter note.

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