Tag Archives: Gram Parsons

AUTO TUNING HIS MASTERS VOICE: THE CURSED LIBRETTO

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Dave

It could have been a very conventional life. He returned from Milan, because his old teacher back in Busseto croaked, and Verdi, who had obligations to the town, was recalled to take over the local Philharmonic Society. During the following … Continue reading →

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ITS ONLY ROCK N' ROLL

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Dave

In 1830 French Romanticism truly bloomed with Victor Hugo’s Hernani and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, both works that fully embraced Diderot’s mandate: the Symphonie Fantastique, with its programatic autobiographical backdrop and dense intertwining of the spheres of composer and composition, would, … Continue reading →