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Early in the game, RZA convinced his fellow rappers that if they put their solo careers on hold, they'd share in a giant pot of gold via the vagaries of corporate synergy. He was right. The Wu-Tang brand blossomed under an unprecedented 1993 contract the band signed with Loud Records (Sony owns a 49% stake) that allowed each member to branch into solo projects on other labels. Every few years the group pulls together for an album, thus raising each member's visibility and bolstering the branding strength of Wu-Tang, Inc. It then launches a new crop...
...most anticipated part of the evening was the world premiere of Donald Martino's Romanza, written especially for Schulte for this concert. The work, for solo violin, opened with extreme intervallic explorations that lead to variations that increase in intensity. As the composer wrote in the program notes, "The sets of variations at first are cast within traditional phrase-length boundaries, but as the line unfolds, these become freer and more fanciful." The three parts of the work (alternately slow, fast and slow) flowed well, and there was some obvious excellent writing, such as the one part where the violin...
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...figured prominently in the Dar Experience. The nearly sold-out house adoringly hung on her every word and lyric. They especially appreciated her older songs, cheering when Dar announced that she was about to perform an oldie. She acknowledges this, joking, "I don't take it personally anymore." Her solo performance of "The Babysitter's Here," a description of adoration from the perspective of a pre-teen taken from her first album, was one of the highlights of the show...
...even when she was alone on stage, Dar wasn't performing solo. The audience (most of whom knew her entire catalog by heart) sang along, dancing in their seats. Their excitement only grew when Dar announced near the end of the show that it was being recorded for a live album...