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...never forgave Eno when he split from Roxy Music after just two albums and headed off into musical outer space. But in New York City they came to adore him - eno is god read the graffiti in the late '70s - as he set about reinventing the studio as an instrument for making music rather than a place for capturing it. That, for better and worse, is how much of today's music gets made. Then, with a series of albums such as Music for Airports, Eno quietly introduced a whole new genre of music to the record racks...
...emotions.”To an extent, he blames public schooling for the lack of music appreciation among youth.“When I was growing up, you had your own orchestra in third, fourth, fifth grade,” he says. “You could rent an instrument and you would play. Now the public schools can’t afford that. They don’t have art. They don’t have shit.”In such a world, Harris hopes the film will do more than just entertain...
...with a big, climactic organ swell! Now would the scene have been at all frightening without those cacophonous organ notes? Certainly not. Maybe the Harvard Organ Society didn’t have such dramatic ideas behind their midnight Halloween concert, but nine performers explored the spookier side of the instrument late Tuesday evening.The Society put on the show for a modest crowd, some costumed, in Memorial Church. The church lights were dimmed and a screen erected on the altar so the audience could see the performers at work. Edward Jones, the Gund University organist and choirmaster and curator...
...exception to the forgettable latter portion of the Ellington suites comes with a pared-down trio version of “The Single Petal of a Rose.” On this, one of Ellington’s most beautiful compositions, Harris delicately draws out the richness of his instrument above warmly bowed bass and cello. His gentle touch proves beyond any doubt his astounding abilities as an instrumentalist. On Harris’s own “Gardner Meditations” suite, the group attempts a return to their early form, but never quite gets there: a few moments...
...ever includes more than a few great vibraphonists, and now, with musicians like Steve Nelson doing their best playing as sidemen, and with greats like Bobby Hutcherson decades past their most important work, Harris has taken up the mantle of jazz’s highest-profile practitioner of the instrument and all of the expectation that comes with...