Word: tonal
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Something about the unadulterated energy and joy of live recordings always appeals to me. Maybe it’s the interaction between performer and audience, or just the unfinished tonal dynamics that make the recording seem so much more authentic in this Pro Tools-obsessed age, but some of the most revered albums of this century have been live performances: for example, The Who’s Live at Leeds or The Allman Brothers quintessential Live at the Fillmore East. Following in this storied tradition is Neko Case’s latest release, The Tigers Have Spoken, an album that...
...finest His Girl Friday tradition, and I began to forget about the brutality of the game and enjoy the antics. I was as caught up in the moment as Jonathon, which makes his subsequent fear all the more palpable. And then Cavini’s game made sense: the tonal shifts follow Trevanny’s point of view of his ordeal...
Music fans who are far older than me often claim this is why classical is the only “truly” good music, because it rigorously explores the possibilities of tonal relationships and all that institutionalized dreck. Ironically, it was being entrenched in classical music to begin with that made me realize how simple (thus fundamental) it is to play with form. In order to give a sublime performance of Bach or Debussy, you don’t have to be blessed with superhuman skill and you don’t have to be a genius...
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was represented by his “Di questa cetra” from Il Parnasi confuso which exhibited Bartoli’s sublime command of mellifluous and seamless tonal transitions and passages that hovered and drifted weightlessly through her listeners, lingering hauntingly in the air. The latter half of the concert was comprised of eleven pieces by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) drawn from La fiera di Venezia, Armida, La secchia rapita, La finta scema, La scuola de’ gelosi, Palmira, Regina di Persia, and La cifra...
...inspired by a series of snapshots taken in Johannesburg this summer, she has begun painting buildings. This new project has required her to expand her painting methods. “Because there’s no other color I have to make really important choices about the tonal variations.” She points to a section of the wall covered with color swatches she has mixed and given names like “Alley Shadow” and “South African Concrete...