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Sometimes the chords sound a little off; needless to say, they are supposed to sound that way, and every time you think you hear a conventional pattern of voice-leading in his accompaniment, he abandons it and plays a perfectly timed major seventh at the top of the piano and throws you off balance. This is not to say that Monk’s playing is haphazard or cacophonous. Rather, it has its own unique beauty that cannot be reduced to a series of dehumanized chord progressions and riffs...
Marsalis' essay struck a chord; in addition to his musical talents, he has amazing insight. Maybe musicians share an understanding that easily transcends racial and class lines. Musicians seem to embrace the soul in one another, the soul of life. They appreciate something that treats race, gender and religion as being as incidental as the clothes we wear. Marsalis is right on the mark. Perhaps if enough people speak out, as he has, they will pierce the tone-deaf arrogance of the powerful. Peter Piaskoski Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
Marsalis' Essay struck a chord; in addition to his musical talents, he has amazing insight. Perhaps musicians share an understanding that easily transcends racial and class lines. Musicians appreciate something that treats race, gender and religion as being incidental. Marsalis is right on the mark. Maybe if enough people speak out, as he has, they will pierce the tone-deaf arrogance of the powerful...
...things in my mailbox: season tickets to the opera and TIME with its report on Kanye West. While I don't profess to be an expert about opera, and hip-hop is far from my typical genre, I do know what I like-music that awakens a deeply emotional chord in my being. West's The College Dropout rotates in my CD player between operas by Puccini and Bizet, although I listen more now to West. His lyrics and music are soul-baring and thought-provoking and speak to the human spirit like great opera. Roberta A. Shoulberg Neshaminy Valley...
...Klein said antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan and her group have "struck a chord, despite her naive politics and the ideology of some of her supporters." Perhaps in a year or two we will read in TIME about the "naive use of power and politics" by the Bush Administration. Richard Spotswood Chicago...