Name: C. Michael Bailey
Dateline: Bryant, Arkansas
Weblog: cmichaelbailey.com [RSS]
Articles: 109
First Published: Thursday, September 21, 2006
Last Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Currently listing articles 109-51:
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Music Review: Two Beethoven Thirds— After Beethoven's Third Symphony music was never the same.
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Music Review: Franz Liszt and the Beethoven Symphonies— They were the first Rock Stars.
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Music DVD Review: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and Concert in Honor of Pope Benedict XVI— The only thing better than a recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is a video performance.
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Music Review: Naxos Records' Sonic Rebellion— "Classical Music" is not dead.
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Music Review: Les Voix Baroques - Canticum Canticorum — It is vibrant and colorful, sensual and pious. This may be the "classical" recording of the year.
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Music Review: Frederic Rzewski The People United Will never Be Defeated! / Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues by Ralph van Raat— Think of J.S. Bach composing Goldberg Variations as a member of the Shining Path...
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Music Review: Two Beethoven Fifths— Two extraordinary Fifths of Beethoven...
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Book Review: Mysteries of the Middle Ages - The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill— Thomas Cahill goes Medievel on readers...
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Music DVD Review: Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 - Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin— The stars are in line when these two masters meet...
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Movie Review: The Reichsorchester— Sublime music, tragic times.
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Music Review: Astor Piazzolla – Maria de Buenos Aires Suite— South American Math - Astor Piazzolla equals Tango
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Music Review: Virgil Thomson – The Plow that Broke the Plains, The River— This collection is the companion soundtrack to the DVD of the documentaries.
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Music Review: Charles Ives – Variations on America — Charles Ives, American Iconoclast.
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Music Review: Fred Hersch - Concert Music 2001—2006— Pianist Fred Hersch leaves the bandstand for the concert stage.
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Book Review: Musicophilia - Tales of Music and The Brain by Oliver Sacks— Oliver Sacks instructs on the necessity of music, turning his attention front and center to music and the brain.
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Music Review: Shirley Kirsten - Scarlatti and Chopin — Another fine collection of Scarlatti and Chopin.
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TV Review: NCIS - “Corporal Punishment"— An anabolic steroid mishap.
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TV Review: NCIS - “Lost and Found"
— All is warm and fuzzy… and well.
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Movie Review: Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men— An unsolicited suggestion: read the book AND see the film...
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TV Review: NCIS - “Designated Target"
— A well-plotted episode with surprises.
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TV Recap: NCIS - “Requiem"
— NCIS gets personal.
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Audio Book Review: No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy— If a literate public seeks a truly great American writer, they need look no further than Cormac McCarthy.
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TV Review: NCIS - “Chimera"
— Close, but no cigar.
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TV Review: NCIS - “Leap of Faith"
— Deception, betrayal, and headhunting...
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TV Review: NCIS - “Identity Crisis"
— “Identity Crisis" is overly circuitous in the extreme...
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Female Objectification and Sexism in Mainstream Media — The trends are alive and well and silly as hell.
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Music Review : Lara St. John - Bach: The Six Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo— Twenty-first Century Bach.
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TV Review: NCIS - “Ex-File"
— NCIS is a culturally aware and pleasing procedural that rarely fails to entertain.
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Music Review: Lara St. John - Bach: Works for Solo Violin, Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004, Sonata No. 3. in C Major, BWV 1005 — Superb bach Violin from North of the Border.
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TV Review: NCIS - "Family"
— The writer change on NCIS has definitely benefited the series, but expect much bigger and more compelling surprises as season five proceeds.
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Music Review: Hans Krása: Brundibár — Krasa's children's opera from Terezin is beautifully rendered.
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TV Review: NCIS - "Bury Your Dead"
— If “Bury Your Dead” is any indication, then the writer change will only benefit season five.
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Music Review: Shirley Kirsten - A Musical Journey: Scarlatti, Schubert, & Chopin
— Shirley Kirsten proves to be maestro on all counts. Hear her Scarlatti.
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Book Review: Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina— Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s story spans a tumultuous century with the human and spiritual remnants of faith and dedication still among us.
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Book Review: Hitler’s Peace by Philip Kerr— While The Pale Criminal remains Kerr’s finest work, Hitler’s Peace continues to prove Kerr’s popularity across the pond.
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Audio Book Review: The Night Gardener by George P. Pelecanos, Narrated by the Author— The author [writes] a narrative that is Hemingway spare and Stephen King hip.
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Music Review: J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations by Simone Dinnerstein— Dinnerstein's perfomance is pushed beyond technique into the realm of emotive realization.
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Music Review: Scott Joplin, Volume 2 by Benjamin Loeb— For those listeners who prefer his or her Joplin plowed in straight rows, Benjamin Loeb’s disc is guaranteed to please.
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Music Review: Scott Joplin, Volume 1 by Alexander Peskanov— This disc inaugurates another Naxos series that should more than win over the fussiest of ragtimers.
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A Scott Joplin Primer— What is more American than Scott Joplin?
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Book Review: The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra— ...any book that requires outside study by the reader is a worthy book for consumption.
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TV Review: NCIS - "Angel of Death"— Not with a bang, but a whimper.
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DVD Review: The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River— ...can The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River be viewed as artistic expression and recognized as propaganda at the same time?
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Music Review: Chanticleer - And On Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass— Chanticleer’s newest recording, And on Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass is in many ways its most ambitious and satisfying project.
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Book Review: Dissolution by C.J. Sansom— Dr. Matthew Shardlake makes his debut as the newest historic sleuth.
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Book Review: The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi— The Last Cato intelligently continues the vein opened by Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code.
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Music Review: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 8 by Domenico Scarlatti— Everything about this fine disc endorses it for many pleasant listenings.
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TV Review: NCIS - "Trojan Horse"
— A tangle of a story, intriguing with a complex, misshapen, dirty plot. Much like real life.
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My Top Ten Desert Island Classical Choices— If one were to assemble a list of anything that he or she would want to have with them on a desert island, there really
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TV Review: NCIS - "In the Dark"
— In the same way that Armand Assante is perfect in his role as Le Grenouille, John Billingsley was perfect as the blind Jackson Scott.
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Music Review: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 7 by Domenico Scarlatti— Konstantin Scherbakov, along with Jenö Jandó, and Evgeny Zarafiants, have provided the highlights among highlights thus far in the Naxos Scarlatti Sonata Series.
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TV Review: NCIS - "Brothers in Arms"
— There are so many questions and so little time.
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Music Review: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 6 by Domenico Scarlatti— It is difficult to assign superiority to any one recording in the series.
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Music Review: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 5 by Domenico Scarlatti— Solid and straightforward, Benjamin Frith’s Scarlatti is well informed and beautifully colored.
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Book Review: Religious Literacy - What Every American Needs to Know - and Doesn’t by Stephen Prothero— Having established God’s sense of humor, we can extrapolate a line of thought to consider God’s sense of irony.
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Music Review: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 4 by Domenico Scarlatti— Yet another fine addition to Naxos’s on-going Scarlatti Keyboard Sonatas series.
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TV Review: NCIS – Navy Criminal Investigative Services - "Cover Story"
— We should hope the writers are busier creating a provocative ending to this season than they were the plot of “Cover Story.”
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Book Review: Berlin Noir by Philip Kerr— "Given a choice between pleasing herself and pleasing someone else she would have hoped that pleasing herself would have made everyone happy."
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Music Review: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 3 by Domenico Scarlatti
— Hungarian pianist Jenö Jandó may rightly be proclaimed the utility infielder of classical piano.
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