From the monthly archives:
Here is a video of Ricky Nelson singing “Honeycomb.” I”m not sure of the date but I’d say this is somewhere between 1958 and 1962. You hear all the difficulties involved in being a child actor, but when I look at Ricky’s face I see a fairly mellow kid. It must have been difficult being [...]
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Run to the theaters to see the new movie based on Edith Piaf, La Vie en Rose (2007). The acting by Marion Cotillard is superb, in fact some of the best acting I’ve seen in my life. (Read Roger Ebert’s review.)
Here are two videos celebrating Edith Piaf. I am happy to report that a good [...]
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Crusader Rabbit is a cartoon I remember from the 1950s, not exactly fond memories, actually I found it a kind of irritating cartoon, but I got sucked in to watching it anyway. As I went through life, I didn’t seem to meet many people who had indeed seen CC. Imagine my happiness (I guess that’s [...]
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Reblogged from LISTEN UP:
Hardcore Gram Parsons fan Will Harnack has started an online petition to get his hero into the Country Music Hall of Fame. It won’t do much good this year, though – the petition went live a couple days after the first-round voting for this year’s Hall of Fame class ended. Besides, Parsons [...]
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I went to two graduations this year: the Lavender Graduation — for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and friends of, and the School of Arts and Architecture. The first was a two and a half hour ceremony — much elation, hugging, description of donors, staff founders, and faculty and all for maybe 30 students. This was [...]
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Timothy Mangan writes in his Orange County Register classical music blog about music critics’ need to prove themselves through their rankings or face losing their jobs, or abandon any hopes of security of employment. He encourages us to subscribe to our local music critics’s blogs, read them, click all the links, and leave comments. His [...]
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I must confess that I hear an enormous sucking sound the closer I get to July 1, 2007–the day I become the new Chairman (Chair is the non-sexist version) of the UCLA Music Department. I know that scientists do blood tests on people like me and find that the testosterone levels are rising as [...]
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My old sometimes friend Michael Tilson Thomas, has turned into a little old Professor in addition to his role as Music Director for the (lucky) San Francisco Symphony. He has taken on a unique way of educating listeners that Robert Winter and Russell Steinberg utilized some years back with CD-ROMS, but now on the internet.
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Here is a striking pairing: Maurice Béjart choreographs Anton Webern’s “Five Movements for String Quartet” (Op.5) for dancers Loipa Araujo and Jorge Esquivel. The music is played on a scratchy phonograph player.
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One of the unique musical legends of the 20th century: Sun Ra.
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