How To Sing: Lilli Lehmann’s Illustrated Guide, 1902. By Maria Popova “It is the artist’s task, through offering his best and most carefully prepared achievements, to educate the public, to ennoble it.”
Just like learning to listen to music is an acquired skill, learning to make music may have as much to do with discipline and practice as it does with inborn “talent,” if not more. In How To Sing (public library; public domain), originally published in 1902, German opera superstar Lilli Lehmann sets out “to discuss simply, intelligibly, yet from a scientific point of view, the sensations known to us in singing” by exploring “the expressions ‘singing open,’ ‘covered,’ ‘dark,’ ‘nasal,’ ‘in the head,’ or ‘in the neck,’ ‘forward’ or ‘back.’” But more than a mere technical guide to vocal skill, Lehmann’s treatise is really a guide to thinking musically and a dimensional meditation on the general art of learning. Equally enchanting are the anatomical diagrams — an inadvertent recurring theme around here lately — illustrating her theories.
My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields: 'I play through the pain' The early-evening crowd in this cosy central London pub have no idea that a sonic sorcerer stands in their midst.
His outward appearance offers few clues: mop of fag-ash-coloured curls, unspectacular spectacles, sturdy cagoule and sensible trousers. Little about Kevin Shields' gentle demeanour suggests he creates magical, mind-melting music that drives people to have uninhibited sex, guzzle weapons-grade drugs and soil themselves. Of which more shortly. For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water. "Funny meeting a strange guy in a bar," he murmurs, giving an indication that he rarely grants interviews. Shields, it transpires, is a passionate, sometimes bewildering, conversationalist. His working methods similarly defy conventional scheduling. "I would say I'm patient rather than stubborn," Shields says of his difficult reputation. Wilful is the word you hear. "Yes and no. 1. 2. 3. The performance that got Elvis Costello banned from America’s favorite late night comedy show.
The performance that got Elvis Costello banned from America’s favorite late night comedy show Elvis Costello and The Attractions appeared on Saturday Night Live on December 17, 1977 as a last minute replacement for The Sex Pistols, who had run into problems getting into the USA because of some prior legal hassles in the UK.
Costello’s performance on SNLwould become the stuff of rock and roll legend. Costello’s record label, Columbia, wanted him to perform “Less Than Zero”, the first single from his as yet unreleased (in the U.S.) debut album My Aim Is True. Elvis wanted to perform “Radio Radio,” his attack on corporate control of the airwaves - a punk move that would have been in the spirit of The Pistols. Columbia disapproved and SNL producer Lorne Michaels allegedly also did not want the song performed as per orders from his employer NBC. Come showtime, the band started playing “Less Than Zero” and then abruptly stopped and shifted into “Radio Radio.”
Michaels was furious. Top 100 Albums of 1986: Slicing Up Eyeballs’ Best of the ’80s — Part 7. We’ve reached September, which means it’s time to unveil the results of Part 7 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, a year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine the best albums of each year of the 1980s — and then, at the end of 2013, we’ll run a monster best-of-the-decade poll to crown the overall champs.
Each poll continues to be bigger than the last, and 1986′s was no different, receiving nearly 53,000 total votes. All told, just over 300 different albums earned votes, both via the pre-selected ballot and write-ins. Once again, the Top 10 albums landed more than 1,000 votes apiece, with the records that made the Top 3 each scoring more than 2,000 — and, for the first time, the No. 1 record exceeding 3,000 votes. So thank you all for voting and sharing your thoughts. Take a look at the Top 100 list below — and feel free to offer your own take on the results, good or bad, in the comments below. 11. 21. 31. 41. 51. 61. Music-Map - The tourist map of music. Classical music to study by. Mix 20 millions songs ! Seven Nation Army (Cover) by Michael Belsar. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps [TGIK Remix] by ThisGuyIKnow. Gnoosic - Discover new Music.
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