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...Suzanne Vega and Michelle Shocked. And for the most fortunate and gifted, there comes the chance to perform on Sinatra's Duets album. What is generally unknown is that the long tradition of American folk instrumentalists remains well alive, albeit largely in obscurity. Out of the bluegrass and other string band music that flourished in rural America, came a national folk music of sorts. Folk music even has its stars, and David Grisman and Tony Rice are undeniably two of the largest. Unfortunately their latest collaboration, Tone Poems, shares a fundamental problem with much recorded folk music it lacks...
...each of the album's tracks, with Rice on guitar and Grisman on mandolin. The care and affection for these instruments is evident in the lavish forty-page liner notes insert. Replete with more than 100 photographs, it is a mini-documentary on the craftsmanship and evolution of string instrument-manufacturing in this country. But all of this devotion takes the focus away from the music. Though both of these men are masters of their instruments, the duets they offer here are largely lacking in lyricism and originality...
...Crimson trailed just 35-32 at the half and then had a 52-51 lead with 10 minutes left in the game. This time, however, the Crimson was on the opposite end of a string of baskets...
...magic from her first entrance in the Sibelius, and her tone simpers more than it captivates. During the most dramatic moments of the piece, one wonders whether she is capable of producing anything outside of the dynamic rangepiano to mezzo-forte-I often heard her bow biting into the string, but her tone gets lost somewhere between the f-holes and the microphone...
...suffered a string of 17 straight scoreless power plays [before breaking the streak last weekend against Union], and had problems clearing the puck when defending against opponents' man-advantage situations...