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The Morriston Orpheus Choir

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:28:23 -0700

The Morriston Orpheus Choir The Sounds of Cardiff Arms Park 1999 If you had told me, say, forty years ago, that I would not only own this recording, but would listen to it and be moved by it, I would have reacted with derision and/or hostility, ...

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Night Music of West Sumatra

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:31:16 -0700

Night Music of West Sumatra (Music of Indonesia Vol. 6) Smithsonian Folkways 1994 Terry Winch gave me this great CD. I'd listened to music from Bali and Java, but I was unfamiliar with the music of West Sumatra. I still have not learned that...

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Sal Mosca

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:15:46 -0700

I just found out that Sal Mosca died. He was a singular modern jazz pianist, even though he was obviously a disciple of the legendary Lennie Tristano. If you don't know his work, listen to the 1971 Lee Konitz recording, Spirits, with Ron Carter...

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Rembetica

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:37:04 -0700

Rembetica: Historic Urban Folk Songs From Greece Rounder Select 1992 Certain kinds of Greek folk music remind me very much of traditional Irish music, that driving, lilting, tilting, intoxicating thing, that groove, that brings out my deranged i...

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Sirena Recorder Quartet

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:03:51 -0700

Sirena Recorder Quartet Sitting Ducks BIS 2000 How many recordings of serial music by recorder quartets do you own? Exactly. It's either none, or this one. This one consists of: Karina Helene Jensen, soprano, alto, tenor and bass recorders ...

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Antigoni Goni

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:41:43 -0700

Antigoni Goni Laureate Series, Guitar Naxos 1997 For those who like to listen to classical guitar music, this is a first rate recording. Goni manages the vital issue of repertoire well. She has work by five modern composers. And her playing is da...

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Wolfgang Tillmans

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:07:21 -0700

Wolfgang Tillmans at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW (Metro: L'Enfant Plaza) Through August 12 Open daily 10 to 5:30. Wolfgang Tillmans achieves two things with this exhibition. He subverts t...

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Latido Negro

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:16:32 -0700

Latido Negro: Perú’s African Beat Directed by Rafael Santa Cruz Gala Teatro Hispano June 7 – July 1, 2007 July 1st, Sandra and I went to the Gala Theatre on 14th Street to see the last performance of this show, which was kind of a capsule history...

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True Dutterer

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:13:19 -0700

True Dutterer: The Work of William S. Dutterer American University Museum Washington DC June 30 – July 29, 2007 http://www.american.edu/cas/katzen/museum/ You write, you paint, you die. Everybody makes marks and leaves them behind, no matter ...

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Marcus Haydock

nobody@vox.com(Doug Lang) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:48:59 -0700

Marcus Haydock Photographs at Fotonet “Seeing implies distance.” Maurice Blanchot Art may change the nature of that distance, as does the work of the young British photographer Marcus Haydock. See this sequence at Fotonet: http://www.fotonet...

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