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WEDNESDAY, DAY 5: Normally there are few things more boring than listening to someone describe what happened on a television show. But today, the day after The Osbournes, I sit in front of my friend Wendy like she's Homer with a lute...
...WEDNESDAY, DAY 5: Normally there are few things more boring than listening to someone describe what happened on a television show. But today, the day after The Osbournes, I sit in front of my friend Wendy like she's Homer with a lute...
...Metheny Group that he has obtained and maintained his greatest popularity. Metheny and the Group worked their way through 20 years worth of repertoire and a seemingly endless line of guitars, including a mutant hybrid monster that fused the bodies of a standard six-string guitar, a lute and a zither. While Metheny adeptly negotiated his way through a minefield of special effects pedals, the sheer variety of guitars he handled bordered on sensory overload. To mix textures while keeping musical flow on “As It Is,” he moved from a guitar strapped...
...attire and libidinous onstage posturing has much to do with their fame. "Our success is not based on our outfits," says Ecker, 26, the quartet's lead violinist. "It goes beyond our image. We play great music." Indeed, while members of most manufactured girl bands wouldn't know a lute from a flute, the bond women are all veterans of black-tie recitals, prestigious conservatories and eminent music academies...
...enemies"--a bit of nationalistic verse that has received heavy play on Radio Shariat, the state-run station. Before the prohibition, sung Persian poems known as ghazals and instrumental Indian melodies called ragas were highly popular in Afghanistan. Concerts featuring such traditional instruments as the rubab (a short-necked lute) used to last for hours at celebratory occasions like weddings and births. Even Western pop made its way to Kabul in the 1970s, when the capital was host to an international rock festival sponsored by a cigarette company...