James Yorkston’s latets album, Year of the Leopard, is an interesting mix of pop and minimalism. The minimalism of Woozy With Cider is reminiscent of Glass’ opera Einstein on the Beach, especially with the spoken word aspect. Yorkston even gives the song a little maracas pulse like Steve Reich.
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The minimalism of Summer […]
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A truncated version of a movement from Mozart’s Requiem somehow captures the agony and pathos of a buzzer beating game victory. It’s really a classic TV moment, but also a classic Mozart moment.
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And strangely it works from a textural standpoint as well. The words are:
Lacrimosa dies illa, qua resurget ex favilla, […]
How doth Oscar act strangely in its Best Score category? Let Variety count the ways:
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Just as Babel seems poised to win Best Picture, so too does its composer, Gustavo Santaolalla who won it last year for Brokeback Mountain. While I will agree that Brokeback was a […]
Congratulations to Osvaldo Golijov for not only winning Best Contemporary Classical Composition but also Best Opera!
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In other news, one of the best reviewed films of last year was also one of the least talked about…
Yes, I’m talking about My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade! It is already at a 7.9 rating on IMDB, which […]
With the Oscars quickly approaching, I found it my duty to watch the only film nominated for Best Picture that I hadn’t yet seen. Mind you I saw the other films with no nomination-related motivation well before they were even announced. But with Babel, it came down to whether I wanted to be fully engaged with the […]
