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Monday, 24 January 2011

RIAA: For a single sound recording no more than three selections may be played and only two may be played consecutively. This poses a significant difficulty for a programming philosophy which has always centered on the belief that a composer’s work should be heard as it was intended to be enjoyed: as a complete piece of music.

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Excerpt: (Eric) Ormsby on (Christopher) Ricks on (Bob) Dylan.

Monday, 10 January 2011

By ERIC ORMSBY [from Fine Incisions: Essays on Poetry and Place] – Whether writing on Tennyson, Eliot, Housman, Beckett, or many others, Christopher Ricks has always been a critic of exceptional learning and aplomb; that he has been generally given to a somewhat oblique, even eccentric angle of view — embarrassment in Keats, the subtleties […]

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Nick Lowe: the true-blue Basher shows up for a friend.

Saturday, 18 December 2010

Austin de Lone: The hallmarks of Nick’s music and indeed his way of life are a casual elegance and simplicity that is mindful of the Beatles and of the classic country artists that Nick so admires – Hank Williams, Wynn Stewart, The Louvin Brothers. The ability to tell a story with but a few words and a simple melodic turn of phrase. Funny, articulate, intelligent, and charming.

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Actually, no – the show doesn’t have to go on.

Saturday, 11 December 2010

Mr. Busch was the only well-known non-Jewish German classical musician to emigrate from Germany solely as a matter of principle

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