Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Controllar with Digimob Friday at Cedars

I got an e-mail from Thomas Myrmel. He’s from Amsterdam but will be at Cedars Friday night performing with Anat Spiegel as Controllar. He invited me to check out their music. I did, and I must say I enjoyed the originality and fresh approach in the tunes I heard. The songs, by the way, cover a...
January 22nd, 2010 | Events, Music | Read More

Wilco for the Weekend

I had a music-filled weekend, Friday in Athens then Sunday in Wooster. Friday, a friend and I met in Columbus and drove down to Ohio University. Athens is a beautiful town, and the architecture is remarkable almost everywhere. Founded in 1804, just a year after Ohio became a state, Ohio University is...
April 20th, 2009 | Music | Read More

Review: U2’s No Line on the Horizon

(Please note that mp3 versions of all U2 albums are currently $5.99 each at Amazon, so if you’re missing any, now’s the time to pick them up. Just follow any of the album links below. The new album can be downloaded for just $3.99.) In March of 1997, U2 released the dance-driven, techno-tinged...
March 3rd, 2009 | Music | Read More

Review: U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

I’m working on a review of U2’s new album, No Line On The Horizon for tomorrow. In the meantime, I wanted to post a review I did for the last album, 2004’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. Interestingly, I still feel the same way about all those songs five years later.— The new...
March 2nd, 2009 | Music | Read More

Program Notes: Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony

As I was in the airport Sunday night waiting three hours for my delayed flight to depart, I heard Schubert’s Eighth Symphony (“Unfinished”). Twice. That’s how long I was waiting. I thought there might be some irony there but was too tired to consider it. I heard an open rehearsal...
February 19th, 2009 | Music | Read More

Program Notes: Brahms First Symphony

The shadow of Beethoven’s symphonies weighed heavily on successive composers. Brahms, for example, first delayed starting on symphonic composition for years, and then labored frustratingly on his first one. However, the results speak for themselves. And once he had gotten his feet wet, he produced...
February 17th, 2009 | Music | Read More