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The Isleys Live
Covid-19 is ravaging the music world
A dispiriting couple of weeks in the lives of music fans have now climaxed with the death of Bill Withers, whose lean, leathery-tough vocals on such pop classics as “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Use Me,” “Just the Two of Us” and “Lean on Me” were deeply woven into the soundtracks of several generations’ lives.
Opinion by Gene Seymour @ CNN
Pretty images
Jimmy Cliff
Bach’s G major prelude
Deconstructed by Alisa Weilerstein @ Vox
Highway 61 Revisited
Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter
Theater is alive
I took a theater appreciation class at my community college a few years ago (because I took theater in high school, and I won the best actor award of my graduating class, although I try not to brag about it too much almost 50 years later). There I learned that I could save money by buying rush tickets at the door at the so-called last minute. Discounts may vary in your location.
Time Out
How Dave Brubeck Changed Jazz
Polyphonic (11:11)
Take Five
This song is in quintuple meter, which is a meter with five beats instead of the usual duple, triple and quadruple beats.
Here are a few examples of songs that are in quintuple meter:
Theme from Mission: Impossible
More @ NPR
The Dark Side
Microsoft’s eBook Apocalypse by Brian Barrett @ Wired
Dream Baby
Roy Orbison (with Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, k. d. Lang, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, and others)
The Look of Love
Diana Krall
Recorded live.
And a music vid version.
Her husband’s music vibrates in a different genre.
Exordium & Terminus
In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans was a #1 hit fifty years ago.
Ralph Ellison listens to Kendrick Lamar and other counterfactuals
Dr. Adam F. Bradley is the associate professor of English at the University of Colorado. Dr. Bradley is a distinguished scholar of African American Literature, specializing in the work of Ralph Ellison. He is also a nationally recognized scholar of Hip Hop and Cultural Studies.
Methods and scientific research on how to develop perfect pitch
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan
1968
A hurdy-gurdy, or a wheel fiddle, is a stringed musical instrument which is played by turning a handle.
Here is an example of a man playing a hurdy-gurdy. Here’s an example of a hurdy-gurdy woman.
An Extravaganza
The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
By Gail Mitchell @ Billboard
The bigger thing is that Cooke, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Dr. King and Jim Brown were all circling each other and learning from each other. It was this robust intellect; people poised to shape and change our culture. And we lost every single one of them except Brown. Examining what we lost as a culture and spending time in that space was a beautiful learning experience.
Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. by Ian Anderson
Bourée is Ian Anderson’s twentieth century reconceptualization of J. S. Bach’s eighteenth century composition Bourrée in E minor.
A bourrée is a seventeenth century French dance, usually in 3/4 or 2/2 time beginning with an upbeat.
The inspiration for Bourée came to Ian Anderson through his floorboards.
a rare intempestivity 