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How legit can an aging rocker get? At 55, Sir Paul McCartney seems determined to find out. Standing Stone, his second voyage into the deep waters of classical music, is a four-movement symphonic poem in which McCartney endeavors to suggest "the way Celtic man might have wondered about the...
The former Beatle isn't the only rock musician currently trying his hand at classical composition--Billy Joel announced in September that his plans include not only working on Broadway but also composing Rachmaninoff-like solo piano pieces--but Sir Paul sweeps the table when it comes to sheer audaciousness...
The results may well go down in musical history as the first as-told-to symphony, though McCartney's associates loyally insist that the final product is all Paul. If so, it's a vanity production. Standing Stone's themes are nondescript, its harmonies blandly predictable, its structure maddeningly repetitious...
Take, for example, class size. We complain about large classes, while forgetting that no one, not one single person, is required to take large classes; each person takes them voluntarily, based on his or her interests or the class's popularity. Students take Ec 10 because they have an interest...
Three Fried Nose Rings (Classical music can be scary.)