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Grex > Music > #25: KRJ's miscellaneous rambling | |
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krj
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response 25 of 30:
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May 1 17:20 UTC 2008 |
The movie Mike described, "Young at Heart," opens imminently at the
Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.
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mary
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response 26 of 30:
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May 1 20:46 UTC 2008 |
That one has garnered some very positive reviews.
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krj
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response 27 of 30:
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Jul 1 19:35 UTC 2008 |
Years ago, one of the first cool things from the BBC was a London
Jazz Festival concert by Ketil Bjornstad of song settings from
John Donne, with Anneli Drecker of Bel Canto singing.
The radio concert was clean and uncluttered; the CD issue of the
same material, titled GRACE, was over-instrumented and juggled
too many different singers.
Ketil Bjornstad has a new album of Donne arrangments out, called
LIGHT. On the short bit I have heard from the BBC, it sounds like
he kept the CD simple this time.
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krj
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response 28 of 30:
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Sep 17 05:13 UTC 2008 |
Eeek, did I not get my review of the Great Lakes Folk Festival posted?
Will try to paste it in tomorrow.
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krj
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response 29 of 30:
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May 1 17:50 UTC 2009 |
The giant Borders CD & DVD clearance sale ends on Sunday May 3, says
the most recent Borders mailout. I picked up 3 classical CDs while
the sale was at 30%, and then another 5 classical CDs and one opera
DVD while the sale was at 50%. The only thing I might have wanted
to pick up were some Tijuana Brass CDs, for nostalgia, and the DVD
of John Adams' opera "Doctor Atomic." Supposedly, according to
Borders.com, there is still a copy floating around the Arborland
store, but I was unable to find it. The copies in Downtown Ann Arbor
and Brighton are supposed to be gone.
The DVD is of the original staging by Peter Sellars, from a production
in the Netherlands. I don't know if there will be a DVD of the
Metropolitan Opera's production by Penny Woolcock, which was part of
the HD Live series in Oct. 2008. "Doctor Atomic" is believed to be
the only opera created in an awful long time to receive two
separate productions from major companies.
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krj
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response 30 of 30:
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May 2 18:41 UTC 2009 |
From the Detroit newspapers, music romance gossip:
Meg White is to marry Jackson Smith. Meg White, as most readers
probably know, is the drummer for the White Stripes. Jackson Smith,
as I only vaguely dimly knew, is the son of Patti Smith and the
late Fred (Sonic) Smith. The last time I was aware of him was
when Patti Smith emerged from semi-retirement to do a memorial
show at The Ark shortly after her husband's death, and I had some
dim awareness of Patti Smith's kid wearing a Green Day T-shirt, or
something like that.
Jackson Smith is the guitar player in a Detroit band, "Back in Spades."
I see some online reviews say it's pretty good guitar rock.
http://www.freep.com/article/20090502/ENT04/90502028/Rockers+Meg+White++Jac
kso
n+Smith+set+to+marry
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