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The first is the incomparable 1963 recording, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, on which two masters, one vocal and one saxophone, pour emotion into several popular ballads, filling them to the brim but not spilling a drop.
The other is a 2003 recording, The Romance of the Violin, featuring Joshua Bell and the orchestra of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Here, too, the passion trembles on the brink of excess but, thanks to the subtle artistry of the performers, remains beautifully contained.
The Chinese pop music scene is like no other ...
The best part of him will never leave the building ...
Like all chart categories, "country" is an arbitrary heading under which one finds the ridiculous, the sublime, and everything in between. On the sublime end, a track that I have been listening to over and over for the last six months: Wynnona Judd's version of "She Is His Only Need." The way she sings it, irony is not a color or even a set of contrasting colors; it is iridescence.
Does Miles Davis belong in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame? Here's my take on his career ...
Attention, high school jazz listeners ...
I have mixed feelings about the movie Good Night, and Good Luck. But not about the soundtrack...
Normally I would not presume to choose a theme song for what's happening right now, but...
Does James Brown's musical legacy live on? Or has it been betrayed? See my essay in the Weekly Standard...
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the blog of the National Performing Arts Convention
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
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Rebuilding Gulf Culture after Katrina
Douglas McLennan's blog
Art from the American Outback
No genre is the new genre
John Rockwell on the arts
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
dance
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
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Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
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Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Martha Bayles on Film...
classical music
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
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Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
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Jerome Weeks on Books
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theatre
Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
Elizabeth Zimmer on time-based art forms
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Public Art, Public Space
John Perreault's art diary
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
