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| What are your TWO favorite Symphonic Recordings? I don't know if you Schubert lovers know about the Bard Music Festival which takes place every summer at Annandale-On-Hudson in beautiful upstate NY. It is a remarkable music festival that, each year, focuses on one important classical composer. F... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I find it difficult to watch her sing. I prefer to just listen. Way too much "mugging". | |
| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? Damn! I remember those days. It would kill me now :-) | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****Amazing how musical taste can evolve.****Yup! Sometimes, without even realizing it. I think it happens when we are open to the idea that our own musical taste is simply that, our own and nothing more; a certain amount of musical humility is a ... | |
| BEST AUDIOGON POSTS Thought this might be a good way to revive this old thread:****History teaches us its usually fairly easy to see what's coming but most of us lack the courage to look reality in the face, preferring to live in our own delusions.The standard method... | |
| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? Now for something that matters:****History teaches us its usually fairly easy to see what's coming but most of us lack the courage to look reality in the face, preferring to live in our own delusions.The standard method is to make things more comp... | |
| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? Offended? Nah! I save that for things (and people) that really matter. Let's just say that I have a knee jerk reaction to useless sniping from posters who make no relevant contribution of their own to a thread, but see it fit to comment about othe... | |
| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? Amazing how some people just can't help but be jerks, Who said anything about importance? That was precisely my point. Or was my point too subtle for you to grasp? | |
| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? Well, let's look BACK twenty five years to refresh our memories of how much change has truly occurred (or hasn't) over the previous twenty five. Personally, I don't think that, fundamentally, it will be that much different than it is now. Sure, th... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, I started to post on several occasions to ask if you were alright, but knew that you would let us know when ready. Glad you are back and that you are able to prevail over whatever it is that life has thrown your way. One thing is certain, mu... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, I resisted giving you a hard time re Phil Woods in my previous post, but now that you brought the subject of your unforgivable transgression and oversight up again....:-)Phil Woods is indeed one of the greats. Has been for a long time and I a... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Chazro, thanks for the comments. Your point is well taken, but classic son predates what we now know as salsa. As usual when trying to establish timelines re the evolution of a music form the lines get blurred. As you point out, son is a key ingre... | |
| Jazz for aficionados ****What American genre would be comparable to Son? Not in style, but place in the society's musical history.****Great and fascinating question! First of all, yes, some (not all; strictly speaking) of the music on BVSC is "son"; one of the big hit... | |
| Major mistakes made in assembling your audio rig Nice post; I agree with your take on the subject and feel that I am in the same boat. Some thoughts that come to mind:I think that it is true that "back in the day" there seemed to be fewer choices, and many of those choices seemed to be able to t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Nice. Getting old indeed; didn't recognize the great George Cables at first. Used to go hear him at the Vanguard in Dexter's qt. back in the eighties; great player. David Weiss sounds very good on trpt. When Cables started to play I thought they w... |