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Romantic Era-Inspired Pieces for Violin and Piano Memorial Church...
...well as the acoustic, softer side they developed throughout the nineties. “I Got Lost” is another standout. Written by Barlow, the song is arranged masterfully. Acoustic guitar enters first, followed by electric guitar, then tom-toms. Eventually, the bovine lowing of horsehair across violin strings permeates the background behind the high, aspirated singing of J Mascis. Again, this song isn’t the usual for Dinosaur Jr.; their next track starts up hard and heavy, as if they were embarrassed to display their vulnerable side. The album is lyrically simple. Some of the songs...
...First snowman built at the end of June…fifteen-minute fame.” Oberst eventually asks, “Would you agree times have changed?” The next song, “Four Winds,” busts through with a welcome energy, cheerful violin riffs, and driving guitar chords. He sings, again, of the crises of modernity and the start of a journey “back.” And though he does so poetically (“And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps / In the black hills...
...Troublesome Two), his only film co-starring Jorge Negrete, and the 1956 Tizoc, his last big movie and the only one he made with Maria Felix. There's also "Los tres huastecos (Three Guys from La Huasteca), in which Pedro plays three roles: a stalwart Army captain, a violin-playing priest and a lumpen atheist. In one film planned at the time of his death, Infante was to play seven different characters...
...tempo of the piece ranged from allegro to adagio over a series of four short movements, but the performers met the challenge brilliantly. The contrast between the pieces, as well as alternating cello, viola, and violin phrases, created an exhilarating confluence of emotions...