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Norris had his own little idiosyncrasies, too. As the soloist in the "virtuoso" Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor and the Capriccio Brillant, Op. 22, which together made up half of the program, Norris was the main event. He had obviously established a rapport with the music and was excited about performance. There were flourishes in his music and motions. At the end of a phrase he would sweep his arms up as if to gesture to the orchestra and say, "Now it's your turn." The piano concerto is one of those pieces that is supposed...
...highlight of the concert was the "Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56," known as the Scottish Symphony. Considered one of the composer's great pictorial works, more than 10 years passed between the initial inspiration, brought about by a visit to Scotland, and the completion of the final score. Mendelssohn dedicated the symphony to Queen Victoria. There are few distinctly Scottish melodies or overtones in the symphony and no bagpipe harmonies or haunting folk tunes. The lack of stereotypical Scottish themes makes room for Mendelssohn's own creative energy. The final movement's majestic theme, not heard...
...mail clients are created equal, and all have some minor bugs. Only by experimentation will you know which one is right...
Evansville is one of the minor casualties in the war among the states over jobs. Money is lavished on would-be employers even at the expense of some citizens' basic needs. But in the minds of state politicians and economic developers, this is a small price to pay. From a purely economic point of view, they are dead wrong. But economics and politics are seldom a rational...
Though Alanis has matured and found newtextures for her lyrics, a few minor changes mightmake her music even more effective. At times,SFIJ besieges the listener with a torrentof words. "The Couch," for example, is an overlongconfessional that exhausts rather than involves.Verbosity sometimes clouds her haunting, oftenstartlingly beautiful melodies. "Front Row" thefirst track, is a surprisingly insipid start tothe album. Trying to muster resentment, she offersus a long stream-of-consciousness account of lovegone wrong. Words pile on words as the standardchorus is layered with dense sub-vocals thatslowly collapse into indecipherable clamor. Thesong turns out to be a mish...