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There is little doubt that you have heard the music of Jean 'Toots' Thielemans. Perhaps his most famous composition is the theme to "Sesame Street," which he wrote and performed on his famous harmonica.he also wrote (or co-wrote with ray charles - still checking into that) and was the note for note whistler/guitarist on bluesette
The 80-year-old Thielemans is most famous for bringing the harmonica into jazz. Prior to his introducing it into modern jazz orchestras, the harmonica was viewed as a passe' instrument of folk music.
Thielemans played on the soundtracks of such movies as "Midnight Cowboy" and "The Wiz," and his harmonica has complemented singers ranging from Ella Fitzgerald, to Paul Simon to Billy Joel and many others.
This hour, Toots Thieleman brings his harmonica and his stories to On Point Friday.
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Mayhew's record is just one of several thousand cylinders, the first commercially available recordings ever produced, that have recently become available free of charge to anyone with an Internet connection and some spare bandwidth. Last November, the Donald C. Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara, introduced the Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project Web site (cylinders.library.ucsb.edu), a collection of more than 6,000 cylinders converted to downloadable MP3's, WAV files and streaming audio. It's an astonishing trove of sounds: opera arias, comic monologues, marching bands, gospel quartets. Above all, there are the pop tunes churned out by Tin Pan Alley at the turn of the century: ragtime ditties, novelty songs, sentimental ballads and a dizzying range of dialect numbers performed by vaudeville's blackface comedians and other "ethnic impersonators."
For decades, these records languished unheard by all but a few intrepid researchers and enthusiasts. Now, thanks to the Santa Barbara Web site and the efforts of a small group of scholars, collectors and independent record labels, acoustic-era popular music is drifting back into earshot, one crackly cylinder and 78 r.p.m. disc at a time. These old records hold pleasant surprises, but they also carry a larger lesson about gaping holes in the story of American pop.
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the whitney museum / how is it american
It would be a kind of journalism where the camera would be behind the scenes and not have to rely on a narrator to tell the story. That precipitated a whole revolution in making documentaries. It still hasn't filtered down to news reporting, which is still an illustrated lecture. The advance was to get to life in such a direct way that when you saw the film you could judge for yourself.--Albert Maysles
Meanwhile, Mr. Cruz is collaborating with the artist Rebecca Solnit on a theoretical proposal for transforming a 70,000-square-foot McMansion in suburban San Francisco — built during the dot-com boom — into multifamily housing. Mr. Cruz believes that grotesquely overscaled houses across the country will eventually go through a similar process, although that time could be 50 years away.estudio
"It's the next ring of densification," Mr. Cruz said confidently of the mega-McMansions, "so we thought it might make a perfect test case. How do you retrofit them?"
Modernists in Portland Oregon convene here.
i would say a seventies firehouse would qualify
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STEVEN PARRINO
MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN
GENEVA
Through May 14
For Steven Parrino, the making of art in New York was—like life in the city itself—an unremitting, unsentimental negotiation between production and destruction. Taking as many cues from Warhol as he did from experimental music, this post-painter wrenched canvases off their stretchers, twisting them into glossy vortexes, and pummeled smooth Sheetrock panels with a sledgehammer. What's most American in Parrino's work are its automatic procedures, its blackouts, and its conceptual relationship with B-horror movies, underground comics, and noise. This retrospective includes more than two hundred works, ranging from paintings, drawings, and photographs that date from the artist's student years and his involvement with the Nature Morte gallery in the East Village to the collaborative film and music projects that preceded his fatal motorcycle accident in 2005.
—John Kelsey
And 70's music. I can hardly count the artists who are musicians or whose works are collaborations with musicians. Tony Conrad, Jim O'Rourke, Daniel Johnston, T. Kelly Mason, Spencer Sweeney, Steven Parrino. Parrino died last year. His enameled black-and-white paintings — like works by Malevich, if Malevich had come from the East Village — are uncompromising, and they were underrated when vacuous decoration came into vogue recently. I'm glad they have a spot here.kimmelman on the '06 whit bi - SP doesnt even catcha mention from saltz
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