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My yearly attempt to understand that crazy music the kids are dancing to these days...
Is there a classier record label than Winter and Winter? Nope.
John Dowland meets John Cage? "Early Music Now" indeed...
"Mozart was a bad composer who died too late rather than too early." Um, excuse me...?
Seizure-inducing sequences, four-eyed hipsters, giant panda people and a smiley face sticker on some guy's forehead...
If I didn't already have a fairly interesting name, I would seriously consider changing mine to Cat Power, too.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Mozart, Sibelius, and John Adams... featuring almglocken, high anvil, Chinese gongs, "ranch" triangles, and sleigh bells.
Can you handle 416 hours of this?
Half a billion people tuned in, and so did I.
Manic hillbilly jam sessions... drunken ragtime jamborees... backcountry kazoo virtuosos... droning banjo ragas... barroom jazz-folk-blues ballads...