A 2010 death I think I neglected to mention at the time was Captain Beefheart. His heavy blues record “Click Clack” starts out by evoking the bizarre silent movie era theme of a villain tying a woman to railroad tracks. “Click Clack” got a lot of airplay on WBCN in Boston when I was in high school, around the same time the J. Geils Band album “Full House” came out, in 1972. Ah, 1972. A year of firsts, starting with my first stereo system.
Category: Music
Get cultured!
This year we’ll catch a Handel and Haydn Society performance of Handel’s Messiah, one of the greatest achievements of Western culture.
A musical beginning and end
I am listening to a live performance on WCRB, Boston’s Classical music radio station. Andris Nelsons is conducting, in his public premiere as Musical Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But there is a sad counterpoint to the excitement of Nelsons taking over the baton in Boston, because I have just learned of the death of Christopher Hogwood.
I saw Hogwood quite a few times when he was conductor of the Handel and Haydn Society. Hearing Mozart and Beethoven as they were heard by Mozart and Beethoven (well, only up to a point with Ludwig), played by right-sized ensembles on original period instruments, was always a delight under Hogwood’s direction. He was only 73 and his passing is a very sad and significant loss.
Cheap Suit Special
It’s been twenty years since Robert Crumb relocated to France, and he’s still there. The introverted yet irrepressible cartoonist/record collector/musician, who is equally profound and profane, is featured on this week’s edition of the syndicated radio program American Routes.
Cómo estás?
Lia Pamina says of her music video for “How Come I”, “The Spanish version [“Cómo Es”] is very cool too.” 🙂 And so it is!
The Sun in Spain
Our very own Miss Pamina, a friend of the blog for most of its eight years, is now a recording artist for Elefant Records, and here’s her first official video. GO LIA!