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Short cuts - brief reviews of folk music recordings
TOM and BARBARA BROWN, Prevailing Winds, (Wild Goose 306). Lovers of English folk songs will welcome this second recording from the forty-year West County veterans. Traditional songs like "Sir Fran...(Continue Reading) The holocaust - Behind the song: a closer look at some of the music we love - Column
"You've got to be kidding," was the response of a senior editor at a well-known publishing company to my proposal that he consider my manuscript of songs of the Holocaust. "Songs of the Holocaust--...(Continue Reading)Living la vida loca: Spain has always signified release, irresponsibility and sensuality to the composers of northern Europe. Peter Conrad succumbs to
The Royal Albert Hall is about to turn itself into the world's largest and most nutritious tapas bar; a Spanish leitmotif interconnects this year's Proms, illustrating the appeal of a culture that...(Continue Reading)`We were working on an erotic song cycle': Reading Carole Maso's AVA as the Poetics of Female Italian-American Cultural and Sexual Identity - author -
Throughout my childhood, I was brought up to be Italian and I was brought up to be American: two distinct identities not to be merged but to exist somehow ......(Continue Reading)Good music pays for itself - Interview
A cantor praying the song, fully involved, draws congregation in Music ministry is a vocation, a challenge and a career. Each week a dozen or more ......(Continue Reading)
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