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...fact, did not come into its own until the mid-20th century, which is one reason why the repertory is so sparse. Glennie is an active commissioner of new works, among them fellow Scotsman James MacMillan's Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, a thorny, dissonant, virtuoso showpiece that got its triumphant American premiere a fortnight ago in Washington. She works closely with composers, advising on matters of technique and, in return for her commission, extracting a promise that the score will be hers exclusively for one year. Her taste runs also to arrangements of Chopin and Joplin, as well as to Japanese...
...Camacho Solis was equally enthusiastic: "Every time there was a rebellion, it always ended in a huge massacre of Indians. Here it is ending in dialogue." He insisted that there were "no winners or losers" at the bargaining table, but it is difficult not to see the Zapatistas as triumphant. If President Carlos Salinas de Gortari honors the pledges to the insurgents, it could transform the political and economic climate in Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state and one of its poorest, and improve conditions for Mexico's 6.4 million Indians...
...play "March of the Triumphant Elephants" live with guitars. But on the record it's not that; you wrote it as a synth thing and then learned to play it live...
...making fun of the singer's romantic aspirations." "Our eyes first met across a crowded room"--and then the hook, and then "I knew we'd done to very different schools..." The compact "guitar also," when it comes, is a deliberately squeaky, pathos-filled echo of the triumphant 70s lust you'd be likely to find at the end of a Cheap Trick song, the Sugargliders' quiet aplomb here as everywhere on the album, sounds like the product of diminished expectations, sounds resigned and hopeful at the same time. Anyone to whom that attitude appeals will be likely to find...
...after talk show and yaps, yaps, yaps, about how she has been denied her "rightful" place at the academic table because she dares to speak the unpopular "truth." Yet the uncomfortable truth for Paglia is that her traveling one-woman show resembles noting so much as Eva Peron's triumphant world tour reprised for the postmodern landscape of tabloid...