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Aug. 30th, 2021 09:11 am
Aug. 30th, 2021
Tony Herrington "Epiphanies: Life-changing Encounters With Music" (Strange Attractor Press)
The monthly Epiphanies column - which has been running in The Wire magazine since January 1998 - celebrates music's transformative power in a series of personal testimonials from some of the most original critics, authors, artists, and musicians of our time. This book anthologizes 55 of the best Epiphanies essays, each one describing an encounter with music that changed a life. The collection also boasts contributions from a host of influential music critics, including Ian Penman on Jimi Hendrix.
It is a great book to dip into.
The monthly Epiphanies column - which has been running in The Wire magazine since January 1998 - celebrates music's transformative power in a series of personal testimonials from some of the most original critics, authors, artists, and musicians of our time. This book anthologizes 55 of the best Epiphanies essays, each one describing an encounter with music that changed a life. The collection also boasts contributions from a host of influential music critics, including Ian Penman on Jimi Hendrix.
It is a great book to dip into.
Tony Herrington "Epiphanies: Life-changing Encounters With Music" (Strange Attractor Press)
The monthly Epiphanies column - which has been running in The Wire magazine since January 1998 - celebrates music's transformative power in a series of personal testimonials from some of the most original critics, authors, artists, and musicians of our time. This book anthologizes 55 of the best Epiphanies essays, each one describing an encounter with music that changed a life. The collection also boasts contributions from a host of influential music critics, including Ian Penman on Jimi Hendrix.
It is a great book to dip into.
The monthly Epiphanies column - which has been running in The Wire magazine since January 1998 - celebrates music's transformative power in a series of personal testimonials from some of the most original critics, authors, artists, and musicians of our time. This book anthologizes 55 of the best Epiphanies essays, each one describing an encounter with music that changed a life. The collection also boasts contributions from a host of influential music critics, including Ian Penman on Jimi Hendrix.
It is a great book to dip into.
Howard Goodall "The Story Of Music" (Vintage)
This is an excellent and intelligent music book. Goodall does a magnificent job of showing how musical styles and trends are involved within their respective cultural contexts. Of particular interest is how the notation and scale system evolved as musicians liberated themselves from church-dominated patronage to asserting themselves as individuals. Though it is now often consigned to elite or at least esoteric status, the author takes pains to show that "Classical Music" was the mainstream preference for centuries and still leaves its stamp on many genres. It also keeps the technical music talk to a minimum so the narrative flows in an enjoyable manner.
This is an excellent and intelligent music book. Goodall does a magnificent job of showing how musical styles and trends are involved within their respective cultural contexts. Of particular interest is how the notation and scale system evolved as musicians liberated themselves from church-dominated patronage to asserting themselves as individuals. Though it is now often consigned to elite or at least esoteric status, the author takes pains to show that "Classical Music" was the mainstream preference for centuries and still leaves its stamp on many genres. It also keeps the technical music talk to a minimum so the narrative flows in an enjoyable manner.
Howard Goodall "The Story Of Music" (Vintage)
This is an excellent and intelligent music book. Goodall does a magnificent job of showing how musical styles and trends are involved within their respective cultural contexts. Of particular interest is how the notation and scale system evolved as musicians liberated themselves from church-dominated patronage to asserting themselves as individuals. Though it is now often consigned to elite or at least esoteric status, the author takes pains to show that "Classical Music" was the mainstream preference for centuries and still leaves its stamp on many genres. It also keeps the technical music talk to a minimum so the narrative flows in an enjoyable manner.
This is an excellent and intelligent music book. Goodall does a magnificent job of showing how musical styles and trends are involved within their respective cultural contexts. Of particular interest is how the notation and scale system evolved as musicians liberated themselves from church-dominated patronage to asserting themselves as individuals. Though it is now often consigned to elite or at least esoteric status, the author takes pains to show that "Classical Music" was the mainstream preference for centuries and still leaves its stamp on many genres. It also keeps the technical music talk to a minimum so the narrative flows in an enjoyable manner.
United Kingdoms
Aug. 30th, 2021 03:03 pmUnited Kingdoms is a groundbreaking five-part series on BBC Radio 4 from exciting new writers celebrating and revealing life across the United Kingdoms in short, sharp drama, comedy, news reports, song and poetic monologue. Stories, lives, and voices making a kaleidoscope of now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000z5w2
Each episode features five short dramas by different writers - a total of 50 writers and 100 actors have been brought together, showcasing new writing and performing talent from every corner of the United Kingdom.
Episode 1: Fearing – a moving and powerful look at 21st Century United Kingdoms.
• MUSSELBURGH - An exhausted woman retires to bed for three days and reflects on her failings, only to realize they are a key to hope not fear.
• ERYRI, SNOWDONIA - A narrative song that explores how a child overcomes their fear about fitting in to a Welsh-speaking community. Sound Design by Nigel Lewis
• RANDALSTOWN, COUNTY ANTRIM - A conversational poetic monologue that discusses how fear uses semantics as camouflage and a place to hide in, as though fear is a spirit that inhabits words and is loosed into our neural pathways as a result.
• UNTHANK - A surreal comedy about your life shrinking, literally. Ivy is learning to live with her wheelchair, but fear of change has a dramatic effect on her Cumbrian farmhouse.
• TANKERTON - When house-mates leave and your zero hours contract ends, where else is there to turn in lockdown, if not home? But home is no place for the in-between, the non-conforming, so they pitch their tent on the edge of the sea and allow the waves, the sky and land to be home.
Musselburgh written by Hannah Lavery
Performed by Nalini Chetty
Produced by Kirsty Williams
Eryri written by Lisa Jên Brown
Performed by Lisa Jên brown and Martin Hoyland
Sound Design by Nigel Lewis
Produced by Martin Hoyland and James Robinson
Randalstown written and performed by Clare Dwyer Hogg
Sound Design Lucinda Mason Brown
Produced by Celia de Wolff
Unthank written by Karen Featherstone
Performed by Cherylee Houston (Ivy), Kerry Wilson Parry (Reporter) and Lekhani Chirwa (Rose)
Sound Design by Eloise Whitmore
Co-Produced by Polly Thomas and Dermot Daley
Original Music composed by Niroshini Thanbar
Tankerton was written by Shelley Silas
Performed by Tigger Blaze
Sound Design by Lucinda Mason Brown
Produced by Celia de Wolff
I loved the last one as it is about Kent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000z5w2
Each episode features five short dramas by different writers - a total of 50 writers and 100 actors have been brought together, showcasing new writing and performing talent from every corner of the United Kingdom.
Episode 1: Fearing – a moving and powerful look at 21st Century United Kingdoms.
• MUSSELBURGH - An exhausted woman retires to bed for three days and reflects on her failings, only to realize they are a key to hope not fear.
• ERYRI, SNOWDONIA - A narrative song that explores how a child overcomes their fear about fitting in to a Welsh-speaking community. Sound Design by Nigel Lewis
• RANDALSTOWN, COUNTY ANTRIM - A conversational poetic monologue that discusses how fear uses semantics as camouflage and a place to hide in, as though fear is a spirit that inhabits words and is loosed into our neural pathways as a result.
• UNTHANK - A surreal comedy about your life shrinking, literally. Ivy is learning to live with her wheelchair, but fear of change has a dramatic effect on her Cumbrian farmhouse.
• TANKERTON - When house-mates leave and your zero hours contract ends, where else is there to turn in lockdown, if not home? But home is no place for the in-between, the non-conforming, so they pitch their tent on the edge of the sea and allow the waves, the sky and land to be home.
Musselburgh written by Hannah Lavery
Performed by Nalini Chetty
Produced by Kirsty Williams
Eryri written by Lisa Jên Brown
Performed by Lisa Jên brown and Martin Hoyland
Sound Design by Nigel Lewis
Produced by Martin Hoyland and James Robinson
Randalstown written and performed by Clare Dwyer Hogg
Sound Design Lucinda Mason Brown
Produced by Celia de Wolff
Unthank written by Karen Featherstone
Performed by Cherylee Houston (Ivy), Kerry Wilson Parry (Reporter) and Lekhani Chirwa (Rose)
Sound Design by Eloise Whitmore
Co-Produced by Polly Thomas and Dermot Daley
Original Music composed by Niroshini Thanbar
Tankerton was written by Shelley Silas
Performed by Tigger Blaze
Sound Design by Lucinda Mason Brown
Produced by Celia de Wolff
I loved the last one as it is about Kent.
Monday Musings
Aug. 30th, 2021 10:57 pmI was going to go and walk into town today but the weather was rather dull and we had some rain. We will probably get the same tomorrow but then Past Sentence will be open and I have some books for her.
So today I have been listening to music, doing some reading, watching a few quizzes, and some other science programs via Prime.
Payday seems far away but it is on Thursday, so I just have to hang tight until then.
So today I have been listening to music, doing some reading, watching a few quizzes, and some other science programs via Prime.
Payday seems far away but it is on Thursday, so I just have to hang tight until then.
Just Wondering
Aug. 30th, 2021 11:19 pmWhat is your favourite breakfast spread?
Are you a pumpkin spice lover, hater, or something in between?
What are you having/had for dinner tonight?
Are you a pumpkin spice lover, hater, or something in between?
What are you having/had for dinner tonight?
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