Word: musicalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jazz go? It's a music of all soul and no limits, but there are, at some times and in some hands, certain arbitrary restrictions. Free form is fine, but the more precise disciplines of melody and orchestration can lead to suspicions of musical conservatism, even retrogression. Yet jazz can--and should--go anywhere, as long as the direction's not conventional, and there is no one better than Charlie Haden at taking an old road to a brand-new place...
Haden's most recent album with his Quartet West, the ravishing The Art of Song (Verve), is a lyrical excursion across a landscape that embraces classical music (Rachmaninoff's Moment Musical), folk (Wayfaring Stranger), American popular song (Kern's In Love in Vain) and contemporary jazz (Jeri Southern's Theme for Charlie and Haden's own Ruth's Waltz). The only thing these disparate pieces have in common is Haden's singular vision, his insistence that this music beats with a single heart that pulses as steadily as his bass swings...
...those who visit--art you can walk right up to and touch (not mounted on a pedestal like the one in Milan). Why do you think excellence in the arts occurs only in large cities? West Michigan and Grand Rapids have many high-quality art events, including top-notch music, theater and dance. ANNA COLBY Jenison, Mich...
Hart, 52, who never finished grad school, runs the site from his Urbana home, adding 30 to 40 books a week. Next he hopes to start entering works of art and music. Hart contends that free books over the Internet will shake up civilization in the 21st century even more than Johannes Gutenberg's movable type did in the 15th. "Democracy," he says, "is dependent on people knowing enough to make a choice...
...view of what enhances our quality of life. Maybe we'll put less value on things that use lots of materials--like three cars in the family driveway--and more on things that don't swallow up resources--like telecommuting and surfing the Internet. Maybe downloading collections of music from the Web will reduce the demand for CD cases. And while visions of a "paperless office" have proved wildly wrong so far, we still have an opportunity to use computers to cut consumption of paper and the trees it comes from...