Word: tone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well alive, albeit largely in obscurity. Out of the bluegrass and other string band music that flourished in rural America, came a national folk music of sorts. Folk music even has its stars, and David Grisman and Tony Rice are undeniably two of the largest. Unfortunately their latest collaboration, Tone Poems, shares a fundamental problem with much recorded folk music it lacks an expressive immediacy, a soul...
...Tone Poems is a beautiful, generous album. Grisman and Rice have devoted themselves to preserving and documenting "the sounds of the great vintage guitars and mandolins." To that end, they each play 17 instruments, one for each of the album's tracks, with Rice on guitar and Grisman on mandolin. The care and affection for these instruments is evident in the lavish forty-page liner notes insert. Replete with more than 100 photographs, it is a mini-documentary on the craftsmanship and evolution of string instrument-manufacturing in this country. But all of this devotion takes the focus away from...
Kudos to Grisman's initiative for starting his own acoustic music recording label, and for preserving and popularizing these viotage instruments, but neither of these accomplishments make Tone Poems any more poetic...
...There's an offensively snide tone toward the liberal conscience [in Hanselman's proposal]," Feldman said. "I don't want the Undergraduate Council to support anything connected to ROTC. I would not be part of an Undergraduate Council that did that...
...stake was a great deal more than simple diversity. The nation's most elite legal establishment self consciously threw itself into debate, knowing it would set the tone for affirmative action disputes throughout the country. Battles over teaching methodology and affirmative action developed into a broader struggle between conservatives and liberals. The ripples from that debate spread throughout the community, threatening to destroy the school...