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...Heroique” Polonaise No. 6 in A-flat Major, his final number. The treacherous double thirds at the beginning were no obstacle to the pianist, who zipped through the chromatic introduction to settle into the stately main theme. In the military march, accented with crisp dotted rhythms and a precise backdrop of octaves, Lang brought out Chopin’s desire to incite Polish patriotism, though the pianist adopted a much faster tempo than is customary.In appreciation for the double curtain calls after every piece and the standing ovation at the end of the recital, Lang played Chopin?...
...When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade” beg to get stuck in your head and stay there. The melodies are well supported by the lush instrumental arrangements, which add glockenspiel, tuba, banjo, trombone, and recorder to the standard indie-pop acoustic guitar, hyperactive synth, and crisp, peppy drums. These instruments are densely layered, with the guitar taking the back seat and providing a base for unison melodies on banjo and horns during the instrumental breaks. Singer Jof Owen has the voice for twee, an expressive near-whisper that works particularly well when multitracked into dense harmonies...
...said Jonathan Krones, the bass guitarist from The Pears. Nobody appeared concerned about who won; it was simply about good music and good friends.SupaDupa took the stage first, and its colorful costuming (each member is dressed in a different color of the rainbow) matched their retro musical style. A crisp trumpet threaded many of their songs, and they used several less conventional instruments, such as a cello and an accordion. The songs were enchantingly upbeat, and SupaDupa clearly enjoyed themselves as much if not more than the audience. The Pears were next. The sheer enthusiasm and energy of their performance...
...seemed missing in previous albums “So Divided” and “Worlds Apart” comes through.The opening track, an instrumental of two and a half minutes, sets the tone for the rest of the album. The short interlude of noise followed by a crisp piano entrance recalls “Source Tag & Codes,” the glory days, which opens in the same way. The ominous repeated notes on the piano are joined by guitars and a hit of the cymbals, the combination of which then escalate to a mass of sound that...
...different assignment each episode--the three sent for review are a hostage case, a wilderness adventure and a heist caper--which makes Dollhouse a kind of drama-school exercise for Whedon and Dushku. The genre-hopping Whedon is up to the task; his hostage-negotiation story would make a crisp pilot for a CBS procedural. And he unsettlingly conveys the actives' experience of living a constantly interrupted dream. ("Did I fall asleep?" they ask after each treatment.) But Dushku, memorable as the bad-girl Faith in Buffy, isn't much of a chameleon. She's passably callow as Caroline...