Attention, Nobel Prize Committee!
Phil Ford deserves a Physics prize for his explanation of time as it relates to the beat in the work of James Brown. It's a delightful read.
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James Brown on the TAMI Show
I saw JB in concert about this time and it was a life altering experience. I probably wasn't the only white boy-child in the audience, but it sure felt like it. I wasn't unwelcome—I was simply out of place. Once the Flames started playing, and we music geeks were pulled towards the stage, I felt right at home. JB was mesmerizing.
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Mo' Mozart
John Potts delivers a Parnassian appreciation of the boy genius.
James Brown
<I>The New Yorker</I>, right on the money, as usual.
What Am I, Chopped Liver?
Jeremy Denk opines, "Something that is definitely not chopped liver literally, metaphorically, or in any other way is the slow movement of Schumann's D minor Trio. (Please see: <I>The Art of the Graceful Segue</I>, by Jeremy Denk, Hyperion Books, 2031, p. 5832.)"
George Trow on Ahmet Ertegun
This is one of the best profiles ever run in <I>The New Yorker</I>—and one of the longest. It's worth it.
The Five-Foot Shelf
David Mehegan remembers his grandfather's devotion to the <I>Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books</I>. Mehegan contends that the "Five-Foot Shelf" was the lodestone for "the life of a totally successful human being."
Musurgia Universalis
Father Athanasius Kircher explains just about everything—and the pictures are gorgeous.
Because Nothing Says "Merry Christmas" Like Schoenberg
<A HREF="http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2006/12/merry_christmas_from_ahn… Gann</A> has posted Schoenberg's <I>Weihnachtsmusik</I> for our Christmas bliss. If you think Arnold never wrote a melody you'd like, take a listen to this gorgeous setting of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming."
Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens
Because nothing says Christmas like marimbas and wild bass! BTW, if the marimbas look backwards, it's because the clip was designed to be projected in one of those film jukeboxes, where they were in fact viewed from the other side.
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