{"id":288,"date":"2010-04-30T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=288"},"modified":"2010-04-30T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:52:11","slug":"come_here_girl_hand_me_that_ka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/04\/come_here_girl_hand_me_that_ka\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Here Girl, Hand Me That Kazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

In contrast to that last post<\/a> highlighting the “dare you to define it” music I have in heavy rotation this week, Tom Service points to the good in the stuff of blatant<\/i> genre crossing, awarding an A for effort<\/a> in an era when the “genres of ‘pop’ and ‘classical’ now demand such different things from singers that the days of meaningful genre-hopping–when Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza ruled the charts, the stage and the screen–may be over.” <\/p>\n

Though it doesn’t do it for me–the fact that they went there in the first place seems to me to be too large a part of why anyone would care about the exercises–maybe I’m underselling the experience. The whole thing just makes me cover-my-eyes nervous and squirmy, particularly for the kids<\/a>. The Aston ensemble, also offering their take on classical filtering pop<\/a>, notes that “it’s a classical musician’s job to play other people’s music. We have just decided to play someone a little bit different.” Hard to argue with that sentiment, of course, though, this kind of thing lives on a two-way street<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I personally have my own weakness for a certain style of creative cover song<\/a>, though I’m not sure where in the contemporary compendium of such work you’d shelve it. “Studied disaffected split-screen crossover”? It’s been a tough week technology-wise here<\/a> for the AJ crew, so I thought we’d just go light on the analysis and finish up with a little fun. If your heart doesn’t melt a little when he sets up his portable theremin, well, we should probably not listen to records together anymore.<\/p>\n

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