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Forgotten Leaves: A pair of viola ganders at Tui St. George Tucker
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Monday, March 23, 2015. A pair of viola ganders at Tui St. George Tucker. Tui St. George Tucker has been in my sights for quite a while, and while I'm not sure I can whip up a full article for her just yet (mostly due to a lack of decent recordings of her stuff), her sheer sui generis. Ness can't be ignored any longer. Named for a New Zealander (-ish? That is). She also wrote a great deal of music for the viola, which brings us to a pair of leaves for the instrument that an enterprising violist perfo...
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View from the Paperhouse: SIFF 2015 End-o'-Fest Roundup!
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View from the Paperhouse. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. SIFF 2015 End-o'-Fest Roundup! Last year I went to nine movies at the 2014 Seattle International Film Festival and reviewed each of them at the end of the fest for this blog. Ich Seh, Ich Seh. Concerns nine-year-old identical twin brothers Elias and Lukas (Elias and Lukas. Changes. The acting is perfect from both the twins and the mother, their turns through the plot sympathetic at one curve and shockingly vicious at the next. The film has the good sense ...
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Listening to the Dregs of the Earth: I Hairpsrayed Your Mom’s Remote - The Fuzzed-out Dreamland of James Ferraro
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Listening to the Dregs of the Earth. Monday, May 27, 2013. I Hairpsrayed Your Mom’s Remote - The Fuzzed-out Dreamland of James Ferraro. It’s happened. For the past few years we’ve been living in a world of manufactured nostalgia. And why shouldn’t we? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). ID and M.O. View my complete profile. Seks Bomba and the Art of Retro-Respect. In Search of Vyto B for the Good of the Biorhythms. I Hairpsrayed Your Mom’s Remote - The Fuzzed-out D. Drop in the Bucket. Jazz snob eat shit.
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Re-Composing: October 2014
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. One-Offs of the Damned - Charles Ives's Hallowe'en. The bad news is that there's Wiccan razor blades in your caramel apples, and the worse news is that you're apparently the kind of person who likes pulling their own teeth out trying to eat caramel apples. The good news is that I found the perfect piece to showcase on Halloween night, Charles Ives's Hallowe'en. From his Three Outdoor Pieces. The second time just the first violin and viola at mp. And the fourth time everybody ff.
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View from the Paperhouse: February 2014
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View from the Paperhouse. Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Adolescence on the Lane through Hell - L.I.E. (LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY) (2001). You know who should have won all the awards by now? Paul Dano, who has done nothing but fantastic work ever since his breakout role in Little Miss Sunshine. But NOOOO.we can't POSSIBLY give him an Oscar or six, he's an offbeat character actor! Even though it appears he's getting praise for 12 Years a Slave. 15-year-old Howie Blitzer (Dano) isn't getting through his sophom...
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Re-Composing: Oldrich Korte's Magic Lantern Music
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Oldrich Korte's Magic Lantern Music. In the heart of Prague sits a shimmering brass cube, and the cube is heart of Laterna Magika. While I can't say that Korte's music is Avant-Garde per se. His first major work is the Sinfonietta. Is neither particularly short, easy or written for reduced orchestration as the name implies. In that same spirit, here's a sonata with only two movements:. The Sonata for Piano. If there ever was a concert forebear to Korte's work with Laterna Magika ...
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Penny For Their Thoughts: May 2014
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Penny For Their Thoughts. Reviewing movies, music and books I got for a penny on Amazon. Sunday, May 11, 2014. Greetings from Burkittsville by Sisyphus. Whether or not you like The Blair Witch Project. Is an utter kick to the nuts for any serious horror fan. I was reminded of Book. Frustrating botched potential when I watched the Nostalgia Critic's comedy review. As part of the Blair Witch. Franchise", mostly made with little-to-no input from the original directors of the movie, Daniel Myrick. Is notable...
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Penny For Their Thoughts: February 2014
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Penny For Their Thoughts. Reviewing movies, music and books I got for a penny on Amazon. Saturday, February 22, 2014. Dark Heritage (1989), directed by David McCormick. If you frequent the same b-movie review sites that I do ( Bleeding Skull. And some of them could be completely worthless (like The Amityville Curse. Which can't even be saved by its decent theme music). Dark Heritage. And the 45-minute neo-silent The Call of Cthulhu. And the decent reviews I saw for Dark Heritage. By John Bellairs, and I'...
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Forgotten Leaves: Forgotten Leaves meets the new Sopranino Tuba repertoire
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Saturday, May 30, 2015. Forgotten Leaves meets the new Sopranino Tuba repertoire. Classical music is generally a polite environment, free of trash talk and slams (at least when Satie stays out of it). That doesn't mean that the scene isn't entirely insultless, such as today's case. I'm a member of a Facebook group called Composers for Performers, Performers for Composers. Reference. One of the best details is a noteless repeated section with the instruction "Just fucking throw 'Dies Irae' in there a ...
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Forgotten Leaves: A haunted vanity - "A Spectre" from Five Woodcuts for piccolo and two violins
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014. A haunted vanity - "A Spectre" from Five Woodcuts for piccolo and two violins. As I've yet to find too many horror-appropriate classical pieces it should come at no surprise that there are exceedingly few leaves that qualify (and most of those I'm keeping for my article on Kubiniana. I challenged myself to confine each piece to one page, and the one that ended up with the most variety per second was "A Spectre". And the Three Japanese Lyrics. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
