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Re: Pulse magazine (magazine recs?)
by Crowmeat Bob 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Signal to Noise ain't too bad. But I heard they were getting ready to fold. I don't buy magazines often, but one magazine I snatched up both times I saw it on the newstand is Experimental Musical Instruments. I don't know if that's still around either. --bob np: optical 8 >From: Lang Thompson <wlt4(a)mindspring.com> >To: <zorn-list(a)lists.xmission.com> >Subject: Re: Pulse magazine (magazine recs?) >Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:44:51 -0500 > > >>P.S. Are you serious about Blender? From their web site, it looks >>like Maxim's entertainment magazine. > >Yes, a Maxim mag, and no, not serious. I've never looked through an issue >but it seems completely uninteresting. Could be wrong though but in any >case certainly no substitute for even a watered-down Pulse. > >Music mags I'd recommend are: > >The Wire >Mojo >Songlines > >and sometimes: > >Jazziz (declining a bit recently too) >Downbeat (most of the time) >BBC Music >Magnet > >Fanfare used to be quite good but I haven't seen it in a while and >Gramophone still has some decent material. > >For videos/film highly recommended are Video Watchdog, Film Comment, Sight >& Sound and if you read French Positif and sometimes Cahiers du Cinema. > > > > >----------------------------- >"It's people like us who took a mass medium and >made it what it is today--a subculture." > >Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons > > >The Funhouse Journal >http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/blog/journal.htm > > >_______________________________________________ >zorn-list mailing list >zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com >To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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new music auction items
by Herb Levy 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

Hi all, Pardon the commercial intrusion, but I'm using some of the extra time I have while waiting for Antenna Radio to get back online, to sort through a lot the duplicate and otherwise unwanted stuff that my wife & I have accumulated over the years. Right now and in the next few weeks, we'll have many new music-related items on auction at Ebay. Right now there are some John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Brian Eno, Philip Glass/Robert Wilson publications up. In the coming weeks we'll have copies of Soundings and Source magazines and other books, possibly some vinyl recordings (early & new music). If you're interested: <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=hrebll>. If not, again sorry for the intrusion. Bests, Herb -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb(a)eskimo.com

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re: Masada - Guitars Frisell, Ribot, Sparks
by Jason` Berenstein 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

dunno, exactly... but january 2003. www.tzadik.com Tzadik January 2003 Releases John Zorn: Masada Guitars In 1993 John Zorn began composing and performing his 208 tunes that now comprise what is known as the Masada songbook. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of this, his most popular musical project, John Zorn has organized a series of CDs, featuring his most illustrious colleagues performing their own unique arrangements of these classics of modern Jewish music. This first release contains three guitarists whose styles are as varied as the compositions they perform. From the singular brilliance of Marc Ribot, the lush sonorities of Bill Frisell, to the orchestral virtuosity of Tim Sparks, Masada Guitars is a glittering tribute, lovingly executed by three of the most original guitarists in the world. > >Message: 7 >Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:21:59 -0800 (PST) >From: Theo Klaase <river_of_dogs(a)yahoo.com> >Subject: Masada - Guitars Frisell, Ribot, Sparks >To: zorn-list(a)lists.xmission.com > >Anyone have a release date on this? > _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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RE: Pulse magazine (magazine recs?)
by Oppenheim, Phil 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

>....some mag recs that Lang didn't already mention: >Joseph May I add Wax Poetics? It's a beautiful little magazine, and has recently jumped up to #2 in my mag pantheon (behind The Wire). Phil np: Times Ain't Like They Used to Be 1-6 nr: Design 'n' Crime, Hal Foster

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Re: Beethoven recs
by Steve Smith 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:19:27 -0800 skip Heller <velaires(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > How about opinions on Mahler, specifically > complete symphonic collections. > > Solti is the clear winner, with Mazel up there > as well, although I like > Bernstein's DG recording of the 5th (and I'm > kind of a 5th guy). Do you like Maazel's 5? I'm still really on the fence about that one after years of trying. Bernstein's DG 5 is precisely one of the examples to which I referred a moment ago, an improvement over the Sony version. The same cannot be said for the DG 4, and not just because of Bernstein's perverse decision to use a boy soprano in the final movement. > Karajan (whose Mahler I don't like as a rule). With the exception of an otherworldly 9 that he recorded right before he died, I'm with you all the way on this one. > Bruno Walter's recordings > don't suck either. Hell, yeah. I grew up on Walter's 1, which still rates well. And his 9, recorded just before WWII broke out (and recently issued for a pittance on Naxos) is magnificent, botched notes, sloppy attacks and all. Sounds like the end of the world, which, for all Walter knew, it was. > Gilbert Kaplan has conducted, I think, the 2nd > over and over again. The > last time he did, he packaged his symphony with > recordings of the piano > rolls Mahler made of his own pieces. Pretty > interesting. And more impressive still when you remember that Kaplan was a financier who taught himself to read music and conduct specifically so he could do that one piece, and has since become one of the world'd leading experts on it. Steve Smith ssmith36(a)sprynet.com NP - Beethoven, Violin Sonata No. 1 - Dumay / Pires (DG)

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Mahler
by Marcin Gokieli 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

There's a great recording of the 7th+ kindertotenlieder by Sinopoli, with the great Bryn Terfel singing. It's a cheap DG's 2CD for the price of 1, so it's worth checking out. Terfel's vocals are blowing away. Marcin

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re: possessed
by Kevin 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Nah, not a dick at all - i can't claim to speak for the man, but it seems to me he just used the term "possessed" as an expression regarding how she uses her voice.

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Possessed?
by John Porter 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Greetings, I am a newcomer to the music of Zorn. Recently I purchased a copy of his 'Big Gundown' album. The music was fantastic, but a section in the liner notes caught my eye: "Other Downtown musicians (on the album) include...possessed vocalist Diamanda Galas..." Possessed? Can anyone tell me by what or whom this woman claims to be inhabited by, or if I have misinterpreted the whole thing and just made a complete dick of myself. Thanks John _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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Re: IAO for real (a little OT)
by Crowmeat Bob 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

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Beethoven recs
by Alan Kayser 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

I'm wondering what the general opinion among the more expert of you might be concerning John Elliot Gardiner's DG cycle of the symphonies. I rather like his ninth, but since it's the only complete cycle in my collection there is little to compare the complete collection to. How about opinions on Mahler, specifically complete symphonic collections. I have the EMI Tennstedt, but am partial to Chailly's Fifth, a wonderful rendition IMHO. Alan E. Kayser _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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