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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three tasty encores--another demonstration of his irreproachable showmanship. Beginning with a lovely rendition of Debussy's "Isle Joyeuse," he raised the ante with the best, most exquisitely nuanced performance of Chopin's Op. 27 No. 2 Nocturne in D-flat that I've ever heard, live or on disc. Thank goodness the crowd didn't ask for a fourth helping of dessert: it would have been impossible to surpass the scintillating brilliance of the famous "Black Key" etude with which he concluded...
...with creative, energetic ways to explore mediocrity as an art form unto itself. Rather than seek out new musical territory, Knox revels in cliched, annoying formulas slapped together to form a pastiche of generic major chord mayhem. YES!! does succeed in pushing limits--for instance, those of compact disc space capacity. Knox man-ages to pack more than 70 minutes of his special brand of grating, '80s-obsessed, painfully simplistic pop stylings onto a single disc...
Adding buzzy effects to "Nu Bruises" saves it from limbo. Without the subtle touches it would have simply begged you to switch this disc with an older one; as it is, you can call it the high point of the record without feeling bad. "Unbelievable Things" similarly tweaks its predecessors just enough to make comparisons petty. Not to say change is always for the better: "European Medicine" features an unprecedented amount of hooting, and, in case anyone is unclear on the point, that...
...German embassy in London. "Diana wore a long red dress," Nayhauss said in a German tabloid. "Around midnight the Munich In crowd was rocking like crazy... Di [was] really with it. She seemed to like the informality of it all. Out of breath from the music, she asked the disc jockey to play something slower. She turned to go back out on the dance floor." But there was a "certain sadness about her," Nayhauss adds. "No wonder. Charles hadn't danced a single dance with her the whole night...
Jobs gave up. Just a little help, he said in Chicago of the alliance with Microsoft to help save Apple. But Steve, you know that once you put a virus-carrying disc in the A drive, your machine won't be the same. Does any Mac user want to get a Bill Gates virus? NICOLA DESIDERIO Chieti, Italy...