A modern day zoetrope!
A modern day zoetrope!
Yo Yo Ma on the floor of a bathroom, with a wombat.
photo by @petersagal, who helpfully tweets about his entire YoYoWombat experience here.
“You can try and avoid it as much as you want, but over the next month you’re going to be inundated with Christmas music. It seems like the Christmas Music Industrial Complex grows exponentially bigger every year. Arenas are packed with groups like the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, who actually split into two camps so they can cover more ground in December. Countless artists – from Justin Bieber to Scott Weiland – released Christmas CDs this year. Most Christmas songs are insipid and horrible, but some gems have slipped by over the years. Last week we asked our readers to vote for their favorite Christmas songs. Click though to see the results.” -rolling stone magazine.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/readers-poll-the-best-christmas-songs-of-all-time-20111130#ixzz1gRGi98bW
What are your thoughts?!
R.I.P. Hubert Sumlin
Anyone who’s heard Howlin’ Wolf has heard his work and anyone who’s heard Keith Richards or Marc Ribot via post-Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits has heard his influence. So that’s everyone, right? Either way, sad news today, as the great blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin passed away at 80, leaving behind a legacy that will endure in rock, blues, and beyond. I’ve been revisiting a number of notable recordings since hearing word of the loss this morning, but this one — “Spoonful” — has been best at cutting to the chase of Sumlin’s skill: a restrained 6-string voice getting behind/between the main vocal while honoring the tune’s spirit and making an indelible mark on the moment.
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An image from Edward Gorey’s, The Blue Aspic (1968). Gorey created an opera book without libretto or score, portraying the tragedy of unrequited love set against the backdrop of an opera company.
When Gino Francesconi arrived in New York to study conducting in 1974, one of his first stops was Carnegie Hall. “Because this was where I was going to make it. I wanted to see this hall,” he recalls.
But when the San Francisco native entered the lobby, he was sure he was in the wrong place. “It was dark, it was dingy, there was litter on the floor, and it was small. I didn’t realize that it was bigger than most Broadway lobbies,” he says, laughing, “so I walked into the box office, and, talk about green, I said to the guy, ‘Excuse me, is there another Carnegie Hall around here?’ And he said, without missing a beat, ‘How many Carnegie Halls do you want, buddy?’ And it’s just kind of funny, because there it was, it was all you needed to hear. I didn’t know what it looked like, but I knew what it meant.”
Francesconi has since become intimately familiar with nearly every nook and cranny of Carnegie Hall. Its first and only archivist, he is the concert hall’s walking encyclopedia, a catalog of everything from encounters with legendary artists and landmark performances to obscure facts about the building and behind-the-scenes trivia. But the position is one that he never would have envisioned for himself when he came to New York with dreams of performing on the stage.
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A sneak peek from the orchestral recording of Heretic Opera’s upcoming opera, Valentine!
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