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Edwin Newman's statement that "there are many good" pension plans is misleading. Considering the thousands of such plans, the word "many" could mean only a relatively small minority and thus could unduly alarm the uninformed listener. Honest reporting would have said that the vast majority or almost all...
The earlier broad attacks on Beethoven and Schubert were more clearly directed at the music itself. The criticism goes beyond the notion that the class and status of a composer affects the music he writes. Social conditions obviously govern any artist's work, but in instrumental music it isn't...
Thus while the opening movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony suggest some wild, overwhelming power to almost everyone, there is no way to say what the power represents. Beethoven described the opening theme as "fate knocking at the door." He dedicated another symphony to the memory of the great man...
But it's a subtle difference--you'll have to see it to appreciate it. Because the listener is first confronted with a host of similarities between Corea's Return to Forever and McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra. For one thing, there is an emphasis on individual, yet simultaneous virtuosity--an...
At the same time, there was a good deal of inspired soloing, from guitarist Bill Connors and Corea. Connors has developed a unique hybrid sound, one that draws equally from the last five years or so of rock guitar playing. He has a very heavy tone, almost ponderous and always...