Monthly Archives: February 2008

17 Feb

Scarlatti: a due

Scarlatti: a due

Skip Sempé and Oliver Fortin record Duende – Music by Domenico Scarlatti On their new “Paradizo” label, Sempé and colleagues are publishing some new recordings, including …

 
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16 Feb

Apple TV

Apple TV

Tonight, after contemplating a lot of hard work I’ve endured over the past couple of weeks, in addition to my current poor state of health, …

 
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12 Feb

Full Potential

Full Potential

In reading about the Microsoft-Yahoo! merger proceedings, I stepped across this line describing Microsoft. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader …

 
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12 Feb

Come again?

Come again?

Today at work, someone approached me and asked me a question I could not respond to, out of both fear and my lack of desire …

 
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11 Feb

Tic Tac

Tic Tac

I saw this at lunch today. Says a lot about user interfaces.

 
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10 Feb

Baroque Notes

Baroque Notes

Yes, I’m at it again, putting notes of things I did in graduate school up on the Web. This time around, it’s a collection of notes …

 
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10 Feb

Janine playing Handel

Janine playing Handel

This video depicts what looks like to be a “perfect night” of entertainment. Balmy breezes, open-air performance of great music, and passionate and able performers. …

 
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09 Feb

Alfabeto: Music by Foscarini et al.

Alfabeto: Music by Foscarini et al.

Ensemble Kapsberger performs music of Foscarini and others. I first reviewed this CD on April 4, 2002 I’ve always been a fan of reading …

 
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09 Feb

Schmelzer – Holloway

Schmelzer – Holloway

Several years ago, violinist John Holloway began recording for ECM New Series; he started here, with some of the works by Johann Schmelzer, a contemporary …

 
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06 Feb

Let’s Sleep

Let’s Sleep

I am very tired. This story makes perfect sense. I am amazed that we still don’t know precisely why we need sleep.

 
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04 Feb

Bach and the Harmonia Mundi

Bach and the Harmonia Mundi

Hylas: Yes, Philonous, I grant the existence of a sensible thing consists in beingperceivable, but not in being actually perceived. Philonous: And what is perceivable but …

 
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04 Feb

Musical Expression

Musical Expression

A key component to baroque music is expression. You might say it’s an important concept in all musical forms and historical periods, really, but I …

 
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02 Feb

Classic Musica Antiqua Köln

Classic Musica Antiqua Köln

When you collect “records” (i.e., music recordings, no matter the medium of the software), you grab recordings by the same ensemble (i.e., the Academy of …

 
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