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Looking as vigorous as he plays, Wild celebrated his birthday last week with a Carnegie Hall recital, consisting primarily of 13 works by Brahms, Liszt and Chopin, among them Brahms' Rhapsody No. 2, Liszt's Ballade No. 2 and Chopin's Ballade No. 1. Wild created ravishing mini-dramas of these demanding, emotionally expansive scores. He has just released a new CD, 20th & 21st Century Piano Sonatas (Ivory Classics...
...Many of the cyber-knickknacks on our Tech 10 Best are binary clones of old friends. PayPal is the next Western Union; the Nikon Coolpix 900 is the spawn of the Brownie. Nike will customize your sneakers, just the way your "artistic" aunt did for your eighth birthday. And Napster: free access to worlds of music! It used to be called radio...
...want to wish Jimi a happy birthday," Chris Wood told the audience at the Orpheum Friday night before he and bandmates Billy Martin and John Medeski launched into a blazing version of Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic." Belting out Jimi's funky lines on bass, drums, and organ, respectively, Medeski, Martin and Wood finished off a night that had been a whirlwind tour of jazz, funk, rock and pure abstract experimentalism...
...murder. Pity that means Yoko will probably say something that will come across as more self-serving than heartfelt. And pity the movie-of-the-week about Lennon last Sunday was so terrible. Talk about going down to Liverpool to do nothing. December 8 is also Jim Morrison's birthday, although the annoying inconvenience of death puts a damper on things. Light a fire in memory...
...Thanksgiving always falls on or around November 26, my niece Katie Brind's birthday, which is always cause for rejoicing, especially this year, which will be quadruply wonderful because she is turning four...