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Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett
Singing The Lady is a Tramp: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZPAmDULCVrU] I was surprised and impressed by Gaga’s chops. I’m sure it’s massaged and produced like anything else, but I finally have a clear sense of what her voice sounds like. I wish I could say the same about her face. She’s amazing to me because images of her…
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Classical Writers and Pop Music
There’s a big idea that I wanted to bring up, but didn’t in yesterday’s review of The ArchAndroid; the idea of complexity in pop music. I’m not one to believe in musical “progress” per se, but the artist that I respect and value most are those that experimented and tried to create a new sound…
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Modest Mouse
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE] There’s video up at the Disney Parks blog of a scoring session for one of their new live shows at California Adventure in Anaheim. It’s a reworked version of “Night on the Bare Mountain” by Modest Mussorgsky, which was used for one of the segments in Fantasia. That piece has always fascinated me because…
