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...what you will about the liberties the bond string quartet takes with a piece of classical music, you can't fault its sexually charged performances for being off key. Off color, yes. A bond concert is a melodic lap dance: the four sylphs do energetic things with their orchestral instruments, not to mention their hips, that would compel Stradivari to order an exorcism. One does not learn to straddle a cello that way at a conservatory...
...lowercase in deference to 007 copyright lawyers), U.K.-based Decca Records has found its own variation of Sex in the Symphony. Released in 2000, the group's first album, Born, topped classical music charts around the world, selling more than 1 million copies to date. The quartet is often dubbed the "classical Spice Girls" and "Vanessa-Mae times four...
...world-famous NYC turntablist quartet X-Ecutioners returns to the public consciousness with a bang. Easily the most eagerly anticipated album of its ilk in years, Built From Scratch makes an ambitious attempt to bring the hip-hop DJ, long eclipsed by egocentric emcees, back to the spotlight...
...coming of talking pictures, 24 years earlier. (That would be like doing a retro-musical today based on the songs and movies of 1978. Shall we have a disco version of "Smokey and the Bandit"?) Kelly, Reynolds, Donald O?Connor and Jean Hagen make for a wonderfully comic quartet. And the unsung star was Roger Edens, who took a sheaf of 20s and 30s songs by Herb Nacio Brown and Arthur Freed (producer of this film and most of Kelly?s other musicals) and soldered them into a perkily coherent score...
...Wonder Why/You?re Just in Love" for "Call Me Madam"). It was the biggest hit of his first Broadway score, "Watch Your Step," and spawned hit versions that reached #4 and #8. In 1950 the song did a Lazarus, or would have if he?d been a barbershop quartet. This time there were four hits, including Bing and Gary Crosby's #2, in 1950 - 36 years later...