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But the saga of Don Carlos did not end there. It continued to be performed in an Italian translation. (Some say Boito, Verdi’s friend and occasional librettist, lent a hand here.) Verdi himself undertook revisions, reworking the duet for the King and his liberal confidant the Marquis of Posa in act two, and the final duet between Carlo (the Italian spelling of the central figure) and the King’s wife Elisabeth de Valois, with whom he is in love. But the problem of the work’s length continued to dog it, and for its La Scala premiere in an Italian translation in 1884 the composer dispensed with the whole of the first act, moving Carlo’s entrance aria “Io la vid? to a later scene and cutting some of the music from the French version. Verdi continued to revise passages as the work was revived later in the century. Two years after the Scala debut the composer once again revised the work for a production in Modena, turning to the Paris edition in an Italian translation with the first act once again restored. This was the basis for the published version from Ricordi, Verdi’s Italian publisher, and the composer regarded it as definitive. Of it he told Ricordi, as Andrew Porter’s excellent program notes for the Metropolitan Opera’s revival last season tell us, that it should be done as he himself decreed. It was this edition that the Met chose for its revival. As Porter puts it, “At the Met, Don Carlo is being done uncut, i.e., none of the music Verdi chose to retain is being removed, and none of his revisions are replaced by unrevised passages. . . . This is a consistent, expansive version of Don Carlo.” And indeed what emerged from the rather troublesome decisions of two centuries that confront musicians and managers was a powerful performance of one of Verdi’s strongest scores.

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Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST

Philip Lambert

Continuum

Rockford Fosgate marketing specialist Joe Dahlquist says it’s a sign of the times. Over the past five years, technologies such as quality audio systems, GPS navigation, and Bluetooth connectivity are all moving higher on buyers’ priority lists, edging closer to features like airbags. Mitsubishi has been listening, so it gave Rockford Fosgate the go-ahead to create the kind of exhilarating aural experience you’d expect to find in a Lexus–and maybe not even there. “Most manufacturers won’t let you get away with 10-inch woofers,” says Dahlquist.

OK, so we’ve got muscle. To judge the subtler qualities, I enlisted indie producer, composer, and recording artist Ralph Schuckett. He’s brought out the best in artists as varied as Bob Dylan, Whitney Houston, and the new out alternative artist Curtis LeRoi. So I figured Ralph and I would take a drive and check out some music.

Ralph, however, wasn’t going anywhere. He showed up with a sack of CDs and we sat in his driveway for over an hour, comparing classic tracks with rarities in all kinds of genres.

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Starbucks to release CD by Hilary McRae
Yahoo News: AP - After releasing albums by Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell, Starbucks new record label is putting out a disc by newcomer Hilary McRae.

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Flamm begins his article by discussing Symbolism in literature. The term as a stylistic concept, he states, has established itself particularly with regard to French and Russian literature (from 1886 to 1896 and from around 1894 to 1914 respectively). Constituting a reaction against naturalist and materialist tendencies, French Symbolism was manifested chiefly in poetry, and it blossomed in the Parisian gatherings convened by Mallarmé. Flamm does not fail to mention the importance of Wagner as a catalyst in literary Symbolism. Short-lived though it was, the Revue wagnérienne that Edouard Dujardin founded with Téodor de Wyzewa provided a focus for the movement.

The Symbolist concept in art history, Flamm goes on to argue, is both broader in territorial scope and less easy to define. It embraces the most diverse treatments of imaginary, psychological and metaphysical subjects. This point is generally acknowledged by art historians, who have described Symbolism as a mind-set rather than a school, style or technique. Furthermore, the popular use of the term emphasised the irrational features of turnof-the century art at the expense of formal categorising, thus ignoring that element of structural innovation which made Symbolist art, like Symbolist literature, prophetic of future developments.

Weit, by Luanda Williams. Lost Highway Records.

Reviewed by Kimberly Burge

Lucinda Williams’ singing voice inhabits at least a dozen personalities, sometimes within one song. She can cajole, confront, tease, confess, entice, and mourn as she slides down one note and holds another just a moment longer than you think she will, keeping you guessing where she’s off to next. She lures you into her latest album. West, her strongest studio effort since 2001’s Essence.

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As a songwriter, the 54-year-old Williams is her daddy’s daughter-poet Miller Williams taught his girl well. The heartbreak in her songs shows up in the precise details and the emotional impact they invoke. This album resounds with loss, as all Lucinda’s do, though here it’s rooted in the death of her mother, Lucille, as much as in romantic break-ups. “Mama You Sweet” is an obvious example; the opening track, “Are You Alright,” is less so. She could be singing these words to a lover who’s left, but the frightened tone and plain language make her sound like an abandoned child: “I looked around me and you were gone /I feel like there must be something wrong /’Cause it seems like you disappeared /’Cause I’ve been feeling a little scared.” Williams often employs repetition, here singing “Are you alright after each line to the doleful strumming of an electric guitar. The combination of words and music makes you want to tuck yourself away in a safe place, covers pulled all the way up to your chin.

THIS ALBUM STEPS away from the narrative storytelling songs that 1998’s utterly perfect Car Wheels on a Gravel Road offered. “Fancy Funeral” comes closest to that style. “Lily of the Valley /And long black limousines /It’s three or four months salary /Just to pay for all those things.” Sounds like someone who’s spent time in a funeral parlor recently and come out with knowledge that can elude those who grieve: “‘Cause no amount of riches /Can bring back what you’ve lost /To satisfy your wishes /You’ll never justify the cost.” It begins as a quiet song, with acoustic guitar and strings, and builds with layers of instrumentation-nothing more than it needs, appropriate to the theme.

Williams rarely pens a love song. Laments for love lost, however-those she knows well. “Learning How to Live” is one of her finest. With its more traditionally country beat, it’s a cryingin-your-beer sort of song: “I’ll take the best of what you had to give /I’ll make the most of what you left me with.” But it contains flourishes only Williams can offer: “For you I might’ve even changed my name,” “All I have left is this dime store ring,” holding out that “diii-mond store ring,” teasing herself and her listeners with images of diamonds. Lu’s never needed diamonds anyway.

Williams growls and moans her way through “Unsuffer Me” over a relentlessly driving melody. “Come On” just might be the greatest breakup song so far this century, all angry music and dismissive lyrics, though only the opening line (”Dude, I’m so over you …”) can be printed in a Christian magazine.

The one misstep on the album, “Wrap My Head Around That” is nine minutes of indulgence, with uninteresting musical accompaniment and weak lyrics. You forgive her instantly, though, with the following track, “Words.” Organ and electric piano open up to an irregular beat and a tumble of images. “My words enjoy the feel of the paper /Better than mingling with your consonants /Once they get going, they never waver/And they slip in between your if, ands, and buts.”

In Williams’ world, the past is in the Deep South (isn’t it always?), and the future is out “West.” After an album’s worth of looking backward, she turns her gaze ahead on this gentle closing track. She asks for company, though with clear eyes: “Come out west and see /The best that it could be /I know you won’t stay permanently /But come out west and see.”