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2023-02-04 11:00:00
Audio perfectionists are an almost extinct breed
Related to my recent post about Owsley Stanley's recording of Ali Akbar Khan's 1970 San Francisco concert is Robert Greenfield's biography Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III. In my post I described Augustus Stanley as an 'audio perfectionist'. Here is a quote from the biography describing his 1960s sound system: "Before ever meeting the Grateful Dead, Owsley had already purchased and installed a sound system in his thirty-five-by-fifty-five-foot living room in Berkeley that far surpassed what even the most fanatical hi-fi enthusiast might have dreamed of owning. Looking like "something that someone had rescued from behind the screen at the local movie theater," his Altec Lansing Voice of the Theatre system consisted of two large wooden cabinets, each of which was "about the size of a small fridge". Equipped with a fifteen-inch speaker, a driver that was "about four inches in diameter," and "a little […]
2022-04-06 04:08:08
Born on this day in 1929 model, actress and nightclub singer Joi Lansing.
2022-02-26 05:12:00
[…] Art in Cleveland, OH; Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 3:00pm at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA; and on Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 7:00pm at St. Mark’s Church in Philadelphia, PA, presented by Penn Live Arts.The concerts feature The Crossing and “brilliant organist” (Dallas Morning News) Scott Dettra in the world premiere of Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop's In a House Besieged, commissioned by the Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as The Crossing in Lansing McLoskey’s The Memory of Rain and Arvo Pärt’s Salve Regina.For complete information, visit https://www.crossingchoir.org/--Katy Salomon, Morahan Arts and MediaRochester Philharmonic Announces 2022-23 SeasonThe Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) announced its 2022-23 season, with Maestro Andreas Delfs in his second season as Music Director of the orchestra. Maestro Delfs continues to bring excitement and a new spirit of rebirth to the RPO with creative programming and an inclusive leadership style.This season, the orchestra presents a thoughtful and […]
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