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...effective conducting, the musicians seemed to fill the hall with a confidence in their unbounded potential as undergraduates. Not even a wayward chair, accidentally pushed off the stage to amused applause, could dampen their spirits. While this excitement, at its best, translated into heartfelt music, it also led to sonic imbalances and an occasional lack of polish. Such problems were evident from the concert’s first selection, Beethoven’s “Overture to ‘Egmont,’ ” op. 84. Written as incidental music for a play by Goethe...
...Long before he was an eccentric recluse charged with murdering an actress, Spector was the wunderkind of pop-rock production techniques, infusing such girl-group hits as "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Be My Baby" with his Wagnerian pomp and sonic drive. In this great set, arranger Jack Nitzsche smartly attaches vamps from RB (Sleigh Ride's "ringa-linga-linga-ding-dong-ding") and the Big Band era to the Christmas hits of the previous two decades (no spirituals here) and supplements the tambourine-and-drum pulse of the Spector sound with chimes, sleigh bells and a million maracas...
...remote control. If you have a video iPod, you may want to look into a video dock, which has a larger screen. In the buyer's guide we mentioned the 8-in. Memorex iFlip ($200). If you have trouble finding that one, check out the highly rated one from Sonic Impact, which is carried in the Apple Stores. (iPod Video Tip: A fast, convenient way for PC users to make non-copyprotected digital movies ready for an iPod or PSP is with InterVideo's iVideoToGo software; it's $30 at intervideo.com...
...that I only pretended to like. Because now that I’m not trying to make the Arts Board like me, I can listen to Top 40 radio without being ashamed. And that’s cool too. 1. “Rather Ripped” by Sonic Youth—The single “Incinerate” is admittedly catchy, but anything by SY just gives me flashbacks to those days I was peer-pressured into listening to “Daydream Nation” on loop in an attempt to “expand my mind...
...doesn’t always leave Grime behind. The genre’s sonic thumbprints–oozing bass, hollowed-out synths, electronic squeaks, and punchy guitar doodles–are all over a few tracks...