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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Let us now praise weird music

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

There’s something to be said for occasional music. Composers of note today don’t write a lot of it — a few birthday pieces here and there for various gray eminences (John Corigliano and Pierre Boulez for Sir Georg Solti), a commission as a memorial (9/11 nevr4get) or to, say, launch a new music director (Magnus [...]

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You can get there from here

Monday, February 1, 2010

“Bird had a knack for getting from one note to another like nobody else.” That’s how Dizzy Gillespie summarized what made Charlie Parker stand out from everyone around him. Parker had the technique to run circles around people, and the harmonic ingenuity to upend jazz harmony as we knew it, but what made his playing [...]

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