Word: concerted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Puff Daddy's ability as a record company CEO to recognize talent was evident at the concert as groups, like 112, on the Bad Boy record label, gave top-notch performances. However, his own abilities as a performer are much less obvious. While his messages of peace and race relations add to the Daddy's overall positive image, the "No Way Out World Tour" (which actually only appears in U.S. cities) demonstrated that Puff Daddy's talents are best applied off-stage...
...many ways, this program is an anomaly. My second disc was four Beethoven sonatas. I don't play any meaninglessly difficult things. No, no Godowsky. Alkan has an interesting tonal language...I try to do sets that illustrate relationships that interest me. I was doing a set [in concert] that would alternate Beethoven sonatas with Rachmaninoff preludes and Bach preludes and fugues, and there was a Chopin nocturne in there...
...have a target audience per se, but I do appreciate seeing a lot of young people at my concert--there seems to be a lot more of them at my stuff than elsewhere. [About his non-observance of certain concert hall traditions] I don't intend to ruffle any feathers, but I'm not adverse to doing so. The people that believe certain things about dress and such, they're pretty much a captive audience. They've got nowhere else to go. For younger people, the way I am is probably more consonant with how they are. They...
...fast, and with more accuracy, but Horowitz had style. Who's the Horowitz today? Kissin maybe, but I can't really go there. Maybe Brendel, the more intellectual, is our Serkin. But I like to think I'm doing something different than what's been going on in concert halls for, say, the past 20 years
...live tracks that take the cake. In preparation of the release, Perkins pored over all the concert tapes for months, choosing among the best versions of songs. He claimed that he didn't always pick the most technically perfect versions, just the ones that best captured the energy of the band. His meticulousness has paid off. "Stop" and "Ain't No Right" are scorchers. The classic "Jane Says" gets a new treatment and wears it nicely. The 12-minute sonic bomb "Three Days" shows just why Jane's Addiction never failed to tear up a stage. Eric and Stephen play...