An assortment of albums I have been listening to this month, so far...
Clear Line | Jacob Garchik
Symphonie Pacifique | Greg Foat
RoundAgain | Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Brian Blade
Jennifer Higdon Harp Concerto - American Rapture | Yolanda Kondonassis, The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra & Ward
Some recently listened music in my Apple Music.
Ethan Hein back at it again with a great post deciphering the idea that it doesn’t take musical ability to be a popular singer these days…
You kids like the wrong music, part two:
It’s true, we don’t expect unamplified and unedited singing at Caruso’s level anymore. But we expect a lot of other things. For one thing, we expect singers to write their own material, which Caruso didn’t do. For another, we demand a lot of studio technique that Caruso would have found unbearably alien. To say that “edited” recordings are of intrinsically lower musical value than live recordings makes no sense. By that standard, we should require that all movies be plays that are filmed in real time. Film acting isn’t the same craft as stage acting, and unamplified stage singing isn’t the same craft as studio singing. Some people manage to master both crafts, but not many.
So much great stuff here. Read the whole thing.
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