Today, the CD is 25 years old. Is the CD still relevant? I have to think so. The sound quality is better than what can be crammed into an MP3 file. However, there is an untethered quality of today’s music portability.
Alex Ross has it about right though: “all recordings are fakes, and CDs happen [...]
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25 years old
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Zemlinsky?
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Zemlinsky?
The Chicago Sun-Times has a final review and recap of what sounds like a disappointing summer for the CSO at Ravinia. In keeping with recent tradition of featuring composers whose music was frowned upon by the Third Reich, the festival featured the works of A. Zemlinsky. They even went so far as to mention that [...]
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