For 2007, Home Entertainment Show makes a return engagement to New York City—one of the most popular destinations ever for this event! The venue is the elegant and gracious Grand Hyatt New York Hotel, where the consumer-electronics industry and music lovers alike will descend on May 11–13, 2007 to see and hear the latest high-end home audio and video entertainment products, gaming consoles, imaging products, and more.
Phil Ford deserves a Physics prize for his explanation of time as it relates to the beat in the work of James Brown. It's a delightful read.
I saw JB in concert about this time and it was a life altering experience. I probably wasn't the only white boy-child in the audience, but it sure felt like it. I wasn't unwelcome—I was simply out of place. Once the Flames started playing, and we music geeks were pulled towards the stage, I felt right at home. JB was mesmerizing.
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John Potts delivers a Parnassian appreciation of the boy genius.
<I>The New Yorker</I>, right on the money, as usual.
Jeremy Denk opines, "Something that is definitely not chopped liver literally, metaphorically, or in any other way is the slow movement of Schumann's D minor Trio. (Please see: <I>The Art of the Graceful Segue</I>, by Jeremy Denk, Hyperion Books, 2031, p. 5832.)"
This is one of the best profiles ever run in <I>The New Yorker</I>—and one of the longest. It's worth it.
David Mehegan remembers his grandfather's devotion to the <I>Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books</I>. Mehegan contends that the "Five-Foot Shelf" was the lodestone for "the life of a totally successful human being."
Father Athanasius Kircher explains just about everything—and the pictures are gorgeous.
<A HREF="http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2006/12/merry_christmas_from_ahn… Gann</A> has posted Schoenberg's <I>Weihnachtsmusik</I> for our Christmas bliss. If you think Arnold never wrote a melody you'd like, take a listen to this gorgeous setting of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming."