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What the Baroque is really all about can be gleaned from the original use of the French word baroque to describe irregular or misshapen pearls. Explains Kipnis: "In Baroque music of Bach, Handel and Rameau, the pearls are the musical forms-such as the sonata, the concerto grosso or the...
Buzz Bennett, known on the air as Captain Boogie, is a 32-year-old bushy-haired former disc jockey who dresses like an Old Western street freak, talks like a Madison Avenue adman and currently has a six-figure income. Bennett is a radio doctor-one of the top half...
Giant Amoeba. A few samples of his listener-grabbing gambits make clear why stations buzz Bennett. In a rating battle with another station in New Orleans, he played The Blue Danube Waltz every hour, just before the other station's newscast. "After a while," he explains, "people began to...
In an amplifier, power and distortion are the two most important qualities. A system that will be used for raucus parties needs power (your listeners will probably attribute the distortion to something else). The classical music listener needs low distortion. The primary technical problem in designing an amplifier is to...
Ives' work remains easier to praise than to listen to. At its most difficult, it ranks with late Beethoven, Bartók and Schoenberg for complexity. Even "friendly" works, like the two string quartets and Three Places in New England, take a lot of loving to like. But then...