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Classic HAUSER (CD review)
[…] artist. The disc comprises sixteen selections, the longest being around eight minutes and the majority being closer to the pop standard of four minutes or less. A booklet note tells us the final item, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, is 0:00 minutes. You can’t get much shorter than that. (Actually, it’s 7:57.) I’ve mentioned this before, but I can’t help thinking of the first “classical” album I ever bought: a boxed LP set of the 101 Strings playing parts of famous classical pieces. But they were complete parts, like entire movements of longer works. Here, HAUSER plays brief portions of popular classical music, most of them written for other instruments and transcribed for cello. He plays the pieces beautifully, of course, and the London Symphony Orchestra backs him with their usual grace and accomplishment. But the music is still in bits and pieces, meant to satisfy fans of the […]
2014-10-23 17:30:58
When I was a young man (approximately three eons ago), there was a genre of music known as Mood Music. Usually, Mood Music was recorded by large, string-based orchestras like the 101 Strings or Mantovani and His Orchestra. It was not very cool to like Mood Music but since I loved the standards of the American Songbook, I owned several Mood Music recordings. Yeah, I wasn’t especially cool. I even had a 101 Stings recording titled Backbeat Symphony that consisted of classical music set to a late fifties rock and roll backbeat. As you’ll see by the end of this post, it was pretty dreadful. By the time I reached college age, I’d discovered jazz, where I could hear much hipper versions of the standards I loved and I joined the rest of my contemporaries in referring to Mood Music as Elevator Music. Headed out today for my Wednesday stint at […]
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