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10 jazz recordings that have moved me - Part 1
Submitted by David Larsson on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 12:58My longtime friend Paul Hurd recently asked me to name my 10 favorite jazz picks, so here goes my first installment (i.e., the first 3). My criterion for this list: music that has moved me.
Demand letter? or music video?
Submitted by David Larsson on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 23:18When you've tried over, and over, and over again to get a response to your claim, to no avail, is it time for a lawyerly demand letter? Or is it time to write a song and post a music video on YouTube?
L. Cohen: Hallelujah! Give it a rest ...
Submitted by David Larsson on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 22:04"I was just reading a review of a movie called Watchmen that uses [the song "Hallelujah," by Leonard Cohen]," Cohen is quoted as saying in a recent interview ..., "And the reviewer said 'Can we please have a moratorium on "Hallelujah" in movies and television shows?' And I kind of feel the same way." More
Music that Matters: Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait
Submitted by David Larsson on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 10:08.jpg)
Interesting excerpts available here from Elizabeth Bergman's book Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War,, regarding Copland's Lincoln Portrait, written during some of the darkest days of World War II: