tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63308572541144840632024-03-13T03:35:55.225-04:00Global Around TownThe Most Exciting Events in the ArtsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00064021788741350871noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6330857254114484063.post-43791246371098893152013-09-26T13:36:00.001-04:002013-09-26T15:45:48.905-04:00Music For Autumn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here in the Washington D.C. area</div>
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It is beautiful...</div>
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brisk & invigorating.</div>
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This is one of my favorite times of the year</div>
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perfectly with a couple composers' works.</div>
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you should run to your local store and grab up copies of his works. </div>
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His spirited & colorful depictions of his native Languedoc </div>
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Netania Davrath, Arleen Auger, Victoria de los Angeles, and Dawn Upshaw.</div>
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some of this brilliant, colorful,</div>
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modern, casual, and perhaps even a bit rustic.</div>
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every bite has been delicious!</div>
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light & crispy <i>Sardines</i>!</div>
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RANGE is located in the Chevy Chase Pavillion on its second floor.</div>
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The Heavy Metal/Punk like music that accompanied our meal </div>
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The menu is varied and extensive. </div>
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I ordered all of his available recordings.</div>
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as he has a lot of wonderful new works</div>
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Saturday December 8th 6:00 - 8:00 PM, </div>
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<i><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">My role as an artist seems to be as chronicler of my own particular response to the world.<span style="line-height: 20px;"> </span></span>If it is possible to coalesce these layers of experience into color, surface, and form, then this is the process I am invested in, its meaning <span style="color: black; line-height: 20px;">discovered and recognized in the act of making art.</span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I specifically remember the warmth, spice, leather, minerality, and fruit</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of this wine, the 1973 La Rioja Alta, that I enjoyed in San Francisco in the mid 80's. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have always described that wine as a "<i>wine of elasticity</i>" because just as the </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">they started coming back up again. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"No. 1 was the 2001 La Rioja Alta Viña Ardanza, a wine that right now is absolutely delicious, but is also so much more than that. With lightly spicy fruit flavors, mellowed by long aging in barrels of older American oak, it was a brilliant example of a classic Rioja, with complexity and finesse. The 2001 vintage is widely regarded as great, and the producer, <a href="http://www.riojalta.com/en/index.php" style="color: #004276; text-decoration: underline;">La Rioja Alta</a>, thought so highly of this wine that it called it Reserva Especial, only the third time one of its wines has earned that designation, along with 1964 and 1973."</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Unlike Produttori del Barbaresco's numerous (perhaps too numerous) single vineyard offerings, which are clearly designed for the cellar, its normal Barbaresco can clearly go both ways. It can be cellared for 7 to 10 years, but is also delectably enjoyable to drink now (Decant one hour in advance.) A luminous deep ruby red in color, with a discreet nose of truffles, rose petal and berries, it offers up succulent, spicy red and blackberry fruit, with a hint of saffron and new earth rising on the tart, tangy classically Piedmont finish. Tremendous refinement and aging ability...</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cabernet Sauvignon/Bordeaux Blend, Malbec, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Syrah, Grenache, Mourvedre, Cinsault,</span></div>
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"The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths."</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On tour around the world right now, The Lionel Loueke Trio has been stopping by many of my favorite Jazz clubs and theaters from Santa Cruz, California's Kuumbwa (Lionel must feel right at home with that African name) to Duc Des Lombardes in Paris. A truly Global Around Town citizen, this west African native has been mixing it up lately, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">leaving his amplified Nylon string guitar at home to favor a high powered electric sound. This may startle some who prefer the warmth and grace of Lionel's recorded output to date, including the new release "Heritage" which features acoustic guitar, Piano, and the sultry air of Gretchen Parlato's Voice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I caught up with the Trio at Denver's Dazzle Jazz club, and it was clear the band had visited Rockmount Ranch Wear, <span style="color: #00952e;">www.rockmount.com/ </span>as the three were a triptych of untucked, short sleeve, cowboy </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that you would never expect from a band comprised of two Africans and a kid from New Jersey. The set began with Lionel's voice, or I should say, voices (electronic Harmonizer), and with the lead track from the new album: lfe. (Is that Life with no "i"?)</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vocals take on a new meaning when LL steps forward to the mic, the clicks and air and lip flapping of tribal tongues revolve into a driving rhythm that resonated through the entire evening, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">soon taken over by Drummer Mark Guiliana, who would take it from a whisper of Lionel, up to the full thrust of an electric power trio, and back again. With Bassist Michael Olatja thundering yet facile on a five string electric bass, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I couldn't help but think back to the Jimi Hendrix Experience when Billy Cox took over for Noel Redding 40 years ago. Dropping Africa instead of acid, two trio's couldn't sound more different: no steady backbeat here,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and the lower energy sweetness of Lionel's acoustic work is still evident, and ample, reinterpreted on an electric Guitar. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The loping near- Reggae groove of "Freedom Dance"</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">gave way to a solo more raw and explosive than the studio version on "Heritage"</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and instead of a return to the trance-like vocal theme and quick ending, Olatja's bass </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">continues the feel throughout a long solo with peaks and valleys,</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">before the subtle mallet work of Mark Guiliana take's over,</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">passing the poly-rhythms and ideas from one side of the tiny drum kit to the other, from sky to floor, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like a symphonic score hands voices around the orchestra,</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Yes, folks, this "Drummer" is THAT good) earning a standing ovation from a crowd that also ordered dinner. Not to be missed. Check lionelloueke.com for tour dates.</span><br />
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One of my friends is studying at Yale.</div>
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And this brilliant young cellist is making me jealous!</div>
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For me this would be quite fascinating.</div>
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After all, how many brilliant pieces of music have you become familiar with </div>
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Have you any favorite soundtracks?<br />
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Badalamenti to Morricone<br />
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<i>Italian Shoes</i> </div>
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I have read most of Henning Mankell's fine novels. Loved all of the Wallander series and a couple of his works that do not feature the grumbling detective. </div>
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"The story of ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' (the title refers to a weird, unseen bird, whose cry is a recurring harbinger of evil) is a hallucinatory vortex revolving around several loosely connected searches carried out in suburban Tokyo by the protagonist-narrator, Toru Okada, a lost man-boy in his early 30's who has no job, no ambition and a failing marriage. When his cat disappears, he consults a whimsical pair of psychics, sisters named Malta and Creta Kano, who visit him in his dreams as often as in reality. Then his wife leaves him, suddenly and with no explanation, and he spends his days hanging out with an adolescent girl named May Kasahara, a high-school dropout obsessed with death, who works for a wig factory. At one point, seeking solitude, Toru descends to the bottom of a dry well in the neighborhood, and while he's down there, he has a bizarre experience, which might or might not be another dream: he passes through the subterranean stone wall into a dark hotel room, where a woman seduces him. This experience leaves a blue-black mark on his cheek that gives him miraculous healing powers. Eventually, he's rescued by Creta Kano, who reveals to him that she has been defiled in some hideous, unnatural way by Toru's brother-in-law, a politician whose rising career appears to be propelled by demonic powers.</div>
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Surrounded by the bounty of summer produce</div>
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