Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on August 5, 2007| Leave a Comment »
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Some pens are fat, some are thin, and most people have a preference.
If you like a fat pen, this handsome black-and-chrome item is a good candidate. (more…)
Posted in paterfamilias, reseña on August 4, 2007| Leave a Comment »
I spend a lot of time in the car and love music and spoken audio. My 2004 Volkswagen Passat W8 has excellent sound but no satellite radio. I recently sprang for a Sirius radio off the shelf from Costco and then had reliable Jason and the guys at Auto Outfitters take care of the installation. I use a cassette adapter wired to the radio for sound input and the hiss was bringing the quality level of the music down to the barely tolerable level. (more…)
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In retrospect, it was probably inevitable that John Williams and Itzhak Perlman should come together in the making of the soundtrack for Stephen Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, arguably the finest motion picture ever made. How could the theme and its treatment do with other than film music’s established master and one of the greatest violinists of all time? (more…)
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The musical genius of Bach can be savored in any number of configurations. But you’d be hard pressed to find Bach speaking more exquisitely than via these compositions for violin and keyboard. (more…)
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James Horner’s soundtrack for A Beautiful Mind is as psychologically intense as the film it so effectively embellishes. (more…)
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Rostroprovich and Richter are poster children for the merits of recording the lesser-known works of past masters. It is astonishing to believe that the Beethoven of, say, Symphonies, 3, 7, and 9 also sat himself down to compose small music like these pieces for two amiable but sometimes socially incompatible instruments. (more…)
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Jewel’s debut album struck a chord for the sheer non-ordinary quality of her voice. Even if the lyrics sometimes seem a bit overwrought and over-wise, the sound is convincing, especially when taken from a young artist just making her breakout. (more…)
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Life without Ana Cirré is what most of the world’s music lovers endure, oblivious to this brilliantly alluring Spanish songstress and her songs of love, nostalgia, loss, and seduction. (more…)
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Some of the polite arts that become trumped by technology on a functional level nevertheless preserve their potency as communicative acts. Such is the handwritten note in the age of email, voicemail, and Instant Messaging. (more…)
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Naxos cut its teeth on this kind of recording. Two sturdy Beethoven symphonies are played by a Central European (in this case Hungarian) orchestra with good, serviceable effect. (more…)
