Quantcast
Channel: music – Anderson Valley Advertiser
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 44 View Live

Monk, For The Record

In Michael Ondaatje's wonderful novel “Divisadero” — a most memorable part of which is set in Sonoma County — the jazz of Thelonious Monk is likened to “imprisoned birdsongs.” Leave it to a superb...

View Article


Rock’n’Roll & Brain Drain on the Mendocino Coast: A Q&A with Will Stenberg of...

Will Stenberg talks about the Kerosene Kondors, music on the Mendocino Coast and the building of a small, rural music scene.

View Article


Rock’n’Roll & Brain Drain on the Mendo Coast: The Video

In these video excerpts, Will Stenberg of the Kerosene Kondors talks about the band, music on the Mendocino Coast and the building of a small, rural music scene.

View Article

One hell of a wisecrackin’ duet

This coming Saturday, the 23rd, you can catch Angie Rose and Cas Sochacki, at Lauren’s Café in Boonville (9 P.M, $5.) The wisecracking, bantering couple who regularly play and sing with a larger...

View Article

Spring Break Cocktails

Patches of snow cling to the muddy earth in the city’s picturesque 19th-century cemetery just to our north. Down in the gorge immediately to our south the creek builds momentum every hour as the thaw...

View Article


Don Carlos Invades Boonville

This past weekend of the quarter moon, a chilly breeze tempered the usually hot June sunshine, as the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival got off to cool start. Locals noted the traffic was light Friday...

View Article

Three Cheers for Renée Fleming

The musical terrain stretching between the entrenched aesthetic positions of parents and those of their teenage children is dotted with mines and ordnance laced with mustard gas. After enduring...

View Article

Anna & The Glass Ceiling

When it comes to the commemoration of dead musi­cians, few women enjoy even a moment in the posthu­mous spotlight. They were rarely given the chance to compose, and until the 19th century — and even...

View Article


Christian Bach’s Castrato Arias

Bach’s sons remained in the homeland — until the last, Johann Christian. Born in 1735, he was called, though even from beyond the grave, father Bach might have regretted that second name after his...

View Article


Did John Adams Save The Day?

Before I Am Love, directed by Luca Gaudagnino and released into American movie theaters this summer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Adams had never written a soundtrack. In a way he...

View Article

Bach On The Accordion? High Plains Trudgery

An increasing number of drawing-room revolutionar­ies have begun to discuss their strategies to overthrow that despot, the musical score. Rather than treat the notes on the page with slavish...

View Article

Unexpected Encounters With Greatness

Being present at a musical performance of unex­pected greatness is even more memorable than having high expectations met. When I heard Rostropovich with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa in 1985...

View Article

Come, Let Us Run Barefoot Through the Surging Surf of Schlock: Kristmas Kitsch

Christmas is the most musical season. Melodies embedded in the memory are reanimated to light the fires of commerce, Christian devotion, and the family romance, packaging the Christmas Experience in...

View Article


The Greatest Pianist Ever

It’s almost impossible to evoke good music in print, especially the dazzling and extraordinary sound of the world’s greatest pianist, Art Tatum. But, that’s not for lack of trying. Here’s a sampling of...

View Article

First The Downers, Then The Uppers

Using music as medicine goes back to Antiquity and beyond. The Greeks were not alone in recognizing that music was powerful stuff, capable of not only calming the body, but also of rousing it....

View Article


Prince Did It Way Better Faking It With The Black-Eyed Peas & Obama

The transformation of the NFL — and by extension all professional leagues — from sports to entertainment can be seen most clearly in the evolution of the Super Bowl half-time show, now an object of...

View Article

My Butt: The Musical

“If a man love the labor of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, then God has called him.” Robert Louis Stevenson So… some extremely wealthy and astoundingly unimaginative people have...

View Article


Living Musical Legend; Unlikely Sex Symbol Willie Nelson

Halfway into his recent nonstop 2-hours-plus set at San Francisco’s fabled Fillmore, Willie Nelson eased into one of his more romantic hits, “You Were Always on My Mind.” Begging for another chance...

View Article

Sierra Nevada World Music Festival 2011: Peace. Love. Music. And Tacos

Late on Friday afternoon, winding carefully towards Boonville through the lovely hills on Highway 128 near metropolitan Yorkville, we saw a car upside down next to the road. There were plenty of people...

View Article

Rasta Notes

“He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man.” — Psalms 104:14 “I don't have a credit card or bank account or any shit like that. I never will,” said the guy who...

View Article

The Kaleidoscopic Tones of Christmas

However uplifting Messiah and the Christmas Oratorio may be, even after all the recordings and annual performances, I’d grab for Heinrich Schütz’s Christmas Story (Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi)...

View Article

Browsing latest articles
Browse All 44 View Live