Word: melodicism
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Part of that might be due to the specialized nature of their music, which, while bright, energetic, and melodic, doesn’t so much fill the room as linger in the corner. The diners at Tommy Doyle’s treat it like any other background music. One middle...
NEW YORK—As the Strokes raced through post-punk hit after hit at their concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York last Saturday night, singer Julian Casablancas, normally the picture of detached cool, showed some emotion. He mumbled “All these nights have been good...
One wonders if the choice of Mendelssohn was in the best interests of BachSoc, especially considering that the piece is not, beyond the first movement, strikingly melodic. There are composers whose concertos highlight both soloist and back-up—Rachmaninoff immediately comes to mind—but the selection...
Assisted by a bevy of soloists and readings of the wunderkind’s letters, the Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO) put on a clumsy, exuberant, and thoroughly enjoyable concert celebrating their namesake’s 250th birthday on Saturday Feb. 24 in Lowell Lecture Hall. Under the creative guidance of...
It’s a common enough story in the music world: an aging artist loudly insults the current style, sending waves through the whole scene. But this time, the feuding parties aren’t Nas and Benzino.Barry Burns, the guitarist for Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, called recent...