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\"bowie_timecover\"<\/a>Blackstar<\/strong>,\u00a0David Bowie (with the\u00a0Donny McCaslin Quartet<\/a>\u00a0and guitarist Ben Monder) (Columbia)<\/p>\n

Peter Doggett on On Point<\/a>, January 12, 2016<\/p>\n

Jon Pareles Obituary<\/a>, New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

Greil Marcus on Lodger<\/a>, 1979 (“…ideas are run up the flagpole, but try and find the flagpole…”), Rolling Stone<\/em><\/p>\n

Lester Bangs on Diamond Dogs<\/a>, 1974,\u00a0Creem<\/em><\/p>\n

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Woody Guthrie Pens Anti-Trumper <\/strong>(“First Draft,” New York Times<\/em>, January 25)<\/p>\n

More than a half-century ago, the folk singer Woody Guthrie signed a lease in an apartment complex in Brooklyn. He soon had bitter words for his landlord: Donald J. Trump\u2019s father, Fred C. Trump.<\/p>\n

Mr. Guthrie, in writings uncovered by a scholar working on a book, invoked \u201cOld Man Trump\u201d while suggesting that blacks were unwelcome as tenants in the Trump apartment complex, near Coney Island.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe thought that Fred Trump was one who stirs up racial hate, and implicitly profits from it,\u201d the scholar, Will Kaufman<\/a>, a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire<\/a> in Britain, said in an interview…<\/p>\n

Just like the Brits to harvest the last word on our own elections. Leave it to Woody Guthrie to upstage David Bowie\u00a0from beyond.<\/p>\n

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String Quintet in C Major<\/strong>, Opus post. 163, Franz Schubert. Kuijken Quartet with Michel Boulanger (Challenge Classics)
\nAt music schools in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the early music boom upstaged all Romantics. Period instruments and practice became a religion, and evangelicals held sway like Puritans. As dogma, the stuff sounded dry as moondust. But now that the ripples get felt throughout the scene no matter what type of strings you use, the effect has finally proven worthwhile: the point of reference for this steel-string outing might be L’Archibudelli<\/a> (no spotify link)… but listening to Kuijken’s combined attack and — especially — suspenseful releases, can make modern virility sound forced, if not overwrought<\/a>.<\/p>\n