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...performers, despite some intonation difficulties in the upper winds, produced a powerful sound, while retaining control. They retuned before the second piece, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Fantasia in G, BWV 572,” originally written for organ. The richness of the low brass made this atypical arrangement convincing, although anyone seeking to envision it as authentic was jarringly shaken back into the twenty-first century with the crashing cymbal...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Galileo and Pope Paul V. Thomas Becket and Henry II. Encounters between great figures, especially when their world views clash, can create historical watersheds. Such an encounter, writes James R. Gaines, took place on a spring evening in 1747, when an aged Johann Sebastian Bach arrived at the court of Frederick the Great, ruler of Prussia. Frederick, a music lover with as deep a passion for the arts as for waging war, had summoned Bach in order to set him a musical challenge--one that Bach triumphantly met two weeks later when he presented Frederick with...
...Arnaud Lecloerec and Daniel Lohff, 9-8, even though they came within two points of winning the match before the Rams duo forced it into the tiebreak. Also falling in the tiebreak were co-captain Jason Beren and senior Martin Wetzel, who were defeated by Marton Ott and Sebastian Ripoll...
What do they sound like? Well, Meloy’s songwriting does echo the sound of bands like Neutral Milk Hotel, Belle & Sebastian, and Robyn Hitchcock, who affix pop sensibilities on intricate, narrative lyrics. But perhaps musical reference points aren’t the best way to describe what makes Meloy’s songs so indelible. More than anything else, Meloy is like a musical version of writer/publisher Dave Eggers and much of the McSweeney’s coterie, effortlessly blending wry tongue-in-cheek humor with genuinely-felt storytelling...
Thankfully, the melodies of some of the better songs (“La Lune” and “Muscle, Bone and Blood” in particular), the soaring musical heights of “The Last Night of Winter” (with its Belle and Sebastian horns and gorgeous climax) and the Smiths-like “Deep at Sea” propel Todd’s words into a space where they become more than scattered poetry...