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Weekend crowds pack the sidewalks, stopping occasionally to listen to a steel drum band on the corner, or to watch the flurrying hands of a balloon-animal artist practicing his art in front of the local candy store...
...Music, where she graduated with honors. Glennie then compounded her professional challenge by setting out as a soloist instead of a rank-and-file orchestral player. Plenty of people make a living playing the piano, violin, flute or cello. But how many live off their skill with the snare drum, the marimba, the xylophone? Beethoven, after all, never wrote a percussion concerto...
...Marchand's support is also key on "Elsewhere," a beautiful declaration of the power of love, with the line "I believe this is heaven to no one else but me" multi-tracked over McLachlan's own vocal harmonies, guitars and piano. It is Marchand who adds the synthesizer and drum machines that round out McLachlan's sound, giving her the freedom to engage in the vocal gymnastics she does so well...
This past weekend, for the third year in a row, minority student protesters had the poor taste and poor judgment to demonstrate at Junior Parents Weekend events. They walked back and forth in the Science Center, holding up their signs and beating their big drum of oppression. Like the Energizer bunny, they keep going and going and going...
...Sugargliders had added dance music and white-soul moves to their repertoire, putting backbeats and sound effects into their otherwise still-sedate songs; this form of the band recorded five singles for the English label Sarah, each with a different drummer (or a drum-machine). You can now get all five, from 1992's "letter from a lifeboat" up to the just-released "Top 40 Sculpture," on the Sugargliders' new singles compilation We're All Trying to Get There. The "Lifeboat" single was forgettable, but the entire rest of the repertoire, given undivided attention, will slowly become profound and moving...