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...second half of the evening. Perhaps feeding on the randomness of the whole evening, Guster produced a crowd-pleasing rendition of Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," complete with full my-life-is-in-your-hands crowd surfing by Ryan. With Adam Gardener on guitar and vocals and Brian "Thundergod" Rosenworcel at the bongos, the Guster trio played a varied set of songs from all three of their albums--the latest and most well known being _Lost And Gone Forever_. As a recent Guster addict, I would say the B.C. show, like the other two Guster concerts I've attended, further proved...

Author: By Laura Ditchell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Odd Couple | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...explained beforehand to pressmen, "quite in the style of the 17th Century." With amazing virtuosity, his quick fingers manipulated cacophonies; from the tumbled wrack of sound arose the chilled phantoms of dead melodies, smelling still of death-wraiths of Handel, Liszt, Bach, Schumann-jerked on the wires of that thundergod of ghosts, Stravinsky. So far the composer has allowed no one else to play the work in public. Listeners were astounded; critics were baffled. Said Critic Olin Downes (The New York Times) : "An amazing and electrifying development." Said Critic Lawrence Gilman (The New York Herald-Tribune) : "The communings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Guns, Ghosts | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

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