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- DEBBIE ALLEN
- Turf-Sharing When Indie Met Classical
- Classical Music Review: FWS’s all-French program has a fine feel
- Digitizing life’s clutter
DEBBIE ALLEN
Los Angeles Times
I would join President bama in his understanding of connecting with the people and have town meetings across the country to ignite passion about the value of arts education to our young people and our country. This initiative would raise the level of academic achievement instill confidence connect whole generations with creativity and triple the enrollment and attendance records of every elementary middle and high school in America. This would include programs in music dance drama art photography electronic music even martial arts. Civilizations are remembered for their War and Art. We need to balance the footprint we are leaving behind.
Turf-Sharing When Indie Met Classical
New York Times
Later some orchestral music by Padma Newsome of Clogs an excerpt from “The Queen of Naples in Her Radiant Sway” echoed Mr. Adams’s ghostly Americana. The seven-member Bell rchestre was indeed a miniorchestra with strings brass woodwinds and percussion along with occasional guitar and analog electronic noise. In song-length compositions where brief melodic phrases doubled as Minimalist layers its music mingled delicacy and foreboding patterns and looming crescendos. Bell rchestre’s chamber-rock predecessors include both Penguin Cafe rchestra and Godspeed You Black Emperor. What started out pastoral thickened and darkened with French horns answering and enveloping the violin and a pulse growing into a beat. The structure was clear as well as a sense of danger that it could all dissolve.
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Classical Music Review: FWS’s all-French program has a fine feel
Dallas Morning News
The Menuetto’s flute-and-harp duet was elegantly phrased by Jan Crisanti and David Williams and the final Farandole rang its changes with apt élan. The Saint-Saëns rgan Symphony was less persuasive with an electronic-imitation organ that purred anonymously in softer passages but emitted a nasty synthetic noise at the big C-major entrance. rganist Dong-Ill Shin was not identified in the program. (The Dallas Symphony has one of the world’s finest concert-hall organs at its disposal at the Meyerson Symphony Center but has to be begged to use it. Bass Hall has no organ. ) The Adagio was lovingly shaped but some faster tempos were problematic.
Digitizing life’s clutter
Los Angeles Times
The music collection bulges but requires no space next to the stereo. When "War and Peace" lives on electronic reading devices it can no longer serve as a doorstop or a sign of being well-read. ¶ This dramatic change has upended the media business offering new ways to find audiences yet undercutting decades-old methods of making money. Even as it has empowered the likes of Google and Apple the digital transition has hobbled record labels pushed newspaper publishers to the brink of financial ruin and threatened film and television companies. ¶ But the shift also has happened at a more personal level.