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...some pieces of music stimulate more than others - and even less understanding of music's sometimes soothing effects. Glenn Schellenberg, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, built on Rauscher's study by comparing the effects of a happy-sounding Mozart piece to a sad-sounding Albinoni piece, and then testing to see if music by the British rock band Blur had a bigger impact. (The answer is yes, among 10- and 11-year-old boys). At one point he even did research that pitted Mozart's music against a Stephen King story. His conclusion: listeners...
...long, so it's unlikely she'll fare better with the classics. Commercial potential: $$ Artistry: Too soon to tell Dominic Miller Argentinian session guitarist and a favorite collaborator of Sting, he hit the classical charts earlier this year with Shapes - pop reworkings of classics by Beethoven, Bach, Elgar and Albinoni. When his album launched BBC Worldwide's Inversion label, rivals feared the label's built-in media access would mean unfair playtime. Sales might have more to do with model looks than the inoffensive muzak. Commercial potential: $$$$ Artistry: ... Tony Henry...
Composers have long recognized the hypnotic impact of repeated melody: the grinding pathos of the Albinoni Adagio; the inexorable drive of Ravel's Bolero; the serene radiance of Gandhi's final aria in Glass's Satyagraha. None of these pieces, however, approach in length or cumulative impact a new work by British composer Gavin Bryars, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which is at once an apotheosis of minimalist technique and a moving affirmation of the power of simple song...
...scene and a few half-hearted scenes of soldiers at liberty in the market in Egypt--the sounds that accompany Boyd's overwhelming images are the film's only flaw. Even the zipping and buzzing muzak noises would not be so awful except that Weir repeatedly splices between them Albinoni's dirge-like Adagio in G minor to signify CRITICAL MOMENTS and IMPENDING FATE. The fault lies not in the adagio, which is a fine piece of music, but its repeated use as a cue is silly and melodramatic. Yet, it is by no means a fatal flaw. To ruin...
...Albinoni: Four Concertos for Two Trumpets--Maurice Andre and Guy Touvron endow these Baroque show-pieces with a brassy panache rarely recorded. Bright, lively music, an echo of the glory that was 18th Century Italy. (Angel...