Archive for April, 2007
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Shifting energy…
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
voice and identity
At the risk of sounding like a feminist musicologist, I’d like to muse a bit about the trend for childlike/disconnected women’s voices in Pop music. I’m just not comfortable with it. I agree that the effect of a light, breathy vocal can be fetching, and a straight, clear one very pretty, but except in rare […]
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
How I love Handel
I’m back from a week with La Chapelle de Quebec/ Les Violons du Roy, conducted by Bernard Labadie. I’d forgotten what a genius Handel was. The work predates his more famous work, “Messiah,” by a few years, but has all the drama and hummable tunes of Messiah, as well as movements which fans of his […]
