04654DK3BF932HSRMJZ10.599269866943359True2countryLargeMusicTracks113851139B00008F5FAhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B00008F5FA%2526location=/o/ASIN/B00008F5FA%25253FSubscriptionId=0CNXJKY3C82HD479K602Rosalie SorrelsAudio Cassette1098USD$10.9817Music1994-01-17What Does It Mean to Love?048248211345000011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewThis item is currently not available by this merchant63719Traditional Folk32Folk301668Styles5174B000051W1Ihttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B000051W1I%2526location=/o/ASIN/B000051W1I%25253FSubscriptionId=0CNXJKY3C82HD479K602http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000051W1I.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg5050http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000051W1I.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg129130http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000051W1I.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg298300Eddy JAudio CD999USD$9.99120Music2000-10-04"Eddy J's Fun Songs!"641707001428000011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewThis item is currently not available by this merchantAlbum DescriptionThere are no other kids songs like "Eddy J's Fun Songs!" Kid's love to listen, learn & have fun. (SSh... Adults love these songs too!) Unique & different Kids songs!QY4OXT15FRQRMore Kid StuffB000001SDHhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B000001SDH%2526location=/o/ASIN/B000001SDH%25253FSubscriptionId=0CNXJKY3C82HD479K60249249http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001SDH.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg5050http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001SDH.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg130130http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001SDH.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg300300Audio CDCharles IvesJames SinclairSteven Thomas1798USD$17.9815Music1993-03-11The Orchestral Music of Charles Ives: World Premieres and First Editions0999237025281284USD$12.841284USD$12.843350USD$33.501771011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNew8Pw6hSdIu1iAba0kEdoWchEQV4A%2FpWjexHJ1mP4b9BLgoYVm8NvicLjD%2B95spup%2FBDfSrYHO5Q8%3D1499USD$14.99Usually ships in 5 to 6 days5.041B000001SDH52A3BA5RT5HOMJ1J32003-03-19This is a must haveThe Ragtime pieces in the beginning are really *very* good and imaginative. I realized while listening that the composer that wrote for the early Loonie Tunes cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny *must* have been thinking of this music when he wrote his. Considering the time period, this thought makes perfect sense. The music manages to capture the zietgeist of Ives' world yet stands as a timeless expression of what it is to live. This is such extraordinary writing and is captured with some of the best playing I have heard of Ives since Bernstein.B000001SDH522A31C4P50CH9ET4222003-01-05Some valuable "Critical Edition" performances here.James Sinclair, for many years, has been associated with the music of Charles Ives, through both the Charles Ives Society and his work with the Ives Library at Yale University. So it should surprise no one (well, no Ivesian) that any performances of the music of Ives that Sinclair commits to disc will be authoritative.
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<br />That is certainly the case for this Koch Classics release, in which Sinclair conducts the Orchestra New England, formerly the Yale Theater Orchestra and a group that understands Ives performance practices as well as any; they've got this music in their blood. Better yet, every Ives piece on this CD is either [a] a world premiere or [b] a first recording of a Charles Ives Society critical edition, prepared either by Sinclair or by Kenneth Singleton, Sinclair's colleague.
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<br />To me, the most important piece on this CD is the version-for-small-orchestra performance of a true Ives masterpiece, his "Three Places in New England" (also known as his "First Orchestral Set"). Much of Ive's music was never performed within his lifetime, except for his (largely) private benefit, on those occasions when he would pay the musicians of a small "theater orchestra" out of his own pocket, just so he had some idea of what his compositions would sound like. Fortunately, "Three Places in New England" is one work that was. But not in its original form, for large orchestra. As Sinclair makes clear in his booklet notes, Ives - at the request of Nicolas Slonimsky - rewrote the work for small orchestra (Slonimsky's Boston Chamber Players), who premiered the work in this form in 1931. (Slonimsky then concertized in Europe with the music of Ives and other "moderns - Cowell, Ruggles and Varèse to name three - in a tour that included Slonimsky's conducting of the Berlin Philharmonic, a separate saga unto itself.) This critical edition largely restores the "for Slonimsky" chamber orchestra version at the same time that it cleans up many errors that were the result of Ives's doing the transcription under conditions of time pressures and poor health. Heard in this form, "Three Places" is truly a revelation in terms of how the textures are clarified and cleaned up and thus how the individual instrumental lines are permitted to "sound" without their being submerged in the background of a large symphony orchestra. Nowhere is this more evident than in the final movement of "Three Places": "The Housatonic at Stockbridge." Some call this Ives's very finest work, and I'm not of a mind to argue with them. Its initial quiet impressionism soon overwhelmed by full orchestral dynamics, only to have the full orchestra stop while leaving just soft strings at the very end, is a sublime example of Ives at his transcendental best. And I've never heard it performed (or sound) better than it does in this "Critical Edition" performance for small orchestra, surely in a form very close to its first performances by Slonimsky.
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<br />All of the works on this album can be considered "early" works, in that even the newest ("Three Places in New England") almost "makes it" into the first fully-productive decade of Ives's life as a composer. It is actually a canard - and an unfair appraisal of Ives the composer - to state that his music became more complex, both harmonically and rythmically, as he grew older. He wrote complex works as a relatively young man, and simple works as he got older. The "long arc" of his work was not from "the simple to the complex" but from the "commonplace (in terms of its materials, not its complexities, for which rhythmic and harmonic complexities abounded) to the ultimately transcendental, whether simple or complex."
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<br />Thus, on this album, we have the near-contemporaneous juxtaposition of a rather "Brahmsian" style of the early "Postlude in F" (but not without its Ivesian harmonic touches) and the riotous "Calcium Night Light." And, over an equivalently short span of time, we have the "Set of Four Ragtime Dances" set against the far more modern-sounding 1906 "Set for Theatre Orchestra," wiith its near-atonal (but very impressionistic) "In the Cage" (at barely a minute and a few seconds, a minor masterpiece). And, from the same period, the lovely "Largo cantibile" Hymn" with a beautiful cello solo.
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<br />Aside from my earlier comments on the beauty of "Three Places in New England" in terms of its small-orchestra setting, it can further be said that every work on this album benefits not only from the editorial scrutiny of Messrs. Sinclair and Singleton, but from the superb playing of the Orchestra New England througout. Fine sound, too.
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<br />The booklet notes state that Jim Sinclair arrived at Yale in 1972, and that he founded the Yale Theater Orchestra in 1974. This would have been a most propitious time for founding it, inasmuch as it was the year of the Ives centennial. It was also the year in which - on August 17 - Jim Sinclair and Ken Singleton were involved in an Ives centennial celebration concert on the lawn of Charlie's house in West Redding, CT, performing a few Ives premieres on that occasion with a mutual friend, Paul Winter, and his Consort. (Yes, THAT Paul Winter!) Thus, while Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas were celebrating the Ives centennial in a BIG way (in Danbury, Ives's birthplace but a town which he had largely put behind him when an adult), Jim Sinclair and Ken Singleton and a few surprisingly unusual friends - from a strictly musical standpoint - were having their own Ives centennial on Charlie's lawn, in a manner that I think Charlie would really have liked. I'm one who is fortunate to have a souvenir program from that concert. Charlie would have loved the program, too.
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<br />Bob ZeidlerB000001SDH56A2E702GEH1KXG462002-07-27A Well Lit View of IvesI was skeptical about this disc. Since I already owned every work on it, in one way or another, I just kept walking past it. But just like the Ives disc "When the Moon...", this disc offers up a glimpse of many of the Ives minitures that are not to be had elsewhere. Done by a chamber orchestra, which vividly brings out all the quirkiness and crazy-quilt Americana that can be buried with larger ensembles, the music here is brisk, profoundly well detailed and irresistable. Sinclair and the New England Orchestra, do justice to every note, making this CD a perfect adjunct to any Ives collection. In fact, I would consider it an essential for any Ives fan. Don't be put off by the cover you see above. This is a serious disc, and well worth the purchase. You can thank me later.B000001SDH58A2XP015IHS2QLE82001-08-26My Rosetta stone for IvesFor years I'd been intrigued by Ives' music but had been stymied and ultimately put off by the knottier passages (which are many!)...Not for lack of trying or wanting to understand - no Rollo I! - I just didn't know what he expected me to make of all that "good strong dissonance." Whereas, say, Stravinsky's (even Schoenberg's) famously "dissonant" music generally communicated to me pretty readily, Ives' didn't. Was it SUPPOSED to feel inscrutable? Or was there something else to get out of it? How was I supposed to parse it? Well, this recording was a sort of Rosetta stone for me. The early pieces here - the 'Country Band' March and the Ragtime Dances particularly - filled in the gap that I'd felt for so long, the missing link between Ives' music and the popular music which hovers in and around almost everything he wrote. These pieces are, essentially, "take-offs" of standard forms (as per the titles): outlandishly adventurous for their time (and thoroughly amusing) but nonetheless relatively down-to-earth compared to Ives' later works. The Ivesian outbursts and distortions are here more clearly etched against their contexts and are therefore, to my ear, far easier to swallow. (An slight case of mixed metaphor, there, but let's move on.) The recording then offers the chance to see how Ives reworked the same material in more elaborate and obscure ways - "Putnam's Camp" incorporates the 'Country Band' March; "In the Inn" recasts one of the Ragtime Dances. Not to mention that the 4 Ragtime Dances are a fascinating chance to hear Ives work over essentially the same materials in four different ways. One can't help but begin to understand Ives' idiosyncracies (how he livens up a dull harmony with some extra dissonance, or a dull rhythm with some unexpected jerks and starts.) I would recommend supplementing these pieces with a recording of the First Piano Sonata, which, again, reuses much of the Ragtime material, but all in all aims for something much loftier. After having heard this recording I found that I was able to listen much 'deeper' into the First Piano Sonata - a profoundly satisfying experience. That in turn led me to a fuller appreciation for the celebrated Second Sonata, and from there the rest of Ives' output suddenly seemed entirely accessible. Well, a lot of it, at any rate. Perhaps I'm making this recording sound as though it's merely some sort of music appreciation tool; let me be entirely clear: this music is terrific in its own right. What I AM saying, in fact, is that even if you've already decided Ives isn't for you, you still ought to give this recording a chance. To the best of my knowledge, most of this material is unavailable on any other recording (this is, incidentally, an interesting smaller orchestration of the "Three Places" than the familiar version), and regardless, these are excellent, thrilling performances. Highly recommended.B000005IVTCharles Ives SongsB00007FKQMIves: Symphony No. 3B0000026QAIves: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4/HymnsB00005UED6Ives: An American JourneyB0001HZ6MOIves: Concord Sonata; Songs22515Ives, Charles22355( I )5338Featured Composers, A-Z85Classical301668Styles517436695Marches36684Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music36632Forms & Genres85Classical301668Styles517437466General37464Ives, Charles37275Composers37260Modern, 20th, & 21st Century36712Historical Periods85Classical301668Styles517438450Double Bass38439Strings38374Instruments85Classical301668Styles517463684General63681Symphonies85Classical301668Styles5174300358General85Classical301668Styles5174572182General5318Chamber Music85Classical301668Styles5174107JOF23Q9ITDCharles Ives (1874-1954)SPHBD16A4OQQRare and well-done: Well-done performances of rarities.GOVP8ML5AMM6Charlie: A list of essential Ives recordingsB000001WXEhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B000001WXE%2526location=/o/ASIN/B000001WXE%25253FSubscriptionId=0CNXJKY3C82HD479K60268390http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001WXE.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg5049http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001WXE.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg130129http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001WXE.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg300297Handsome FamilyAudio CD1498USD$14.9812Music1996-05-13Milk & Scissors7893970011271139USD$11.391110USD$11.1021150011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNew6myG9cZx4PukM7%2BaK2dBqmN5b%2F63T0XUL8rNXQ7ERRC82n8JvRnYta7Si18vDTycqDQIYv8opzI%3D1498USD$14.98Usually ships in 24 hours5.031B000001WXE51A3KWX6NL5NSMT412001-04-17leonard cohen meets john wayneGreat Lyrics,Dark Alt-Country With A Real Sense Of Doom Around The Bend.B000001WXE58A3E6V5BKG5JC4P82000-06-14One of the great recordings of all time...For many folk, I'm sure, life begins with Through the Trees, the album that won such well deserved acclaim and took off in the UK after a track featured on 'that' Uncut sampler. If you were worried that the Handsome's previous stuff wouldn't live up to that, or their most recent, glorious 'In the Air', then fear not, for this is every bit as good. There are no poor tracks, but some deserve a special mention. Sway along together to the lilting cowboy paean 'Drunk by Noon' - possibly the all time anthem to mediocrity with the deeply affecting chorus "Sometimes I flap my arms like a hummingbird, just to remind myself I'll never fly: Sometimes I burn my arms with cigarettes, just to pretend I won't scream when I die." Thrill to 'The House Carpenter's salutary tale, show-casing of Rennie Sparks seldom heard voice. 'Amelia Earhart vs. the Dancing Bear' is an upbeat sing-along recalling the last moments of the famous aviators life. Great poetry! However, your price of admission would be a bargain were it only for 2 tracks that I believe should take pride of place in the esteem of anyone serious about this music/life business. First, the instrumental 'Puddin' Fingers'. No words of mine are sufficient to the task of describing this; its just magnificent. And then, on to one of, if not THE saddest, darkest, most tragic song ever written (and believe me, I've heard most of them!) 'Emily Shore 1819-1839' has been coughing up blood since the dogwoods bloomed. Join her, propped up on pillows, watching the snow fall, and trying, from her brief 17 years of life, to picture an end to it all. She does. The result is a song that seems to encapsulate the deepest essence of what the Handsome's do best. Bretts voice is perfect and this, to me, is just about the best thing Rennie has ever written. 'Twisted' is a word that frequently comes to mind when considering the songs of the Handsome family. This implies deformity, but the songs on this album and all those subsequent to it, are perfectly formed and shot through with a unique clarity that is a rarity indeed. <p>The Handsome Family and their friends deserve to be fabulously rich. Please buy this stonker of a CD and help make this a reality.B000001WXE51AT3Q120JZWO4G21999-07-06an all-time greateven though a little twangy for me at times, this one has remained in heavy rotation in my collection for years. there are some great tunes and even better lyrics here. even though you can't buy it new, i often see it at used record stores (e.g. amoeba in the haight - San Francisco).B0000061O4Through the TreesB00004RDHKIn the AirB00005OAI0TwilightB0000CD5FCSinging BonesB000001WX8Odessa63687Alt-Country & Americana16Country301668Styles517463695General16Country301668Styles517463714General598642Contemporary Folk32Folk301668Styles5174471006Indie Rock468300Indie & Lo-Fi30Alternative Rock301668Styles5174520088Alternative Folk171240Alternative Rock266023Indie Music468040Substores5174520136General171242Country266023Indie Music468040Substores5174520138Alt-Country & Americana171242Country266023Indie Music468040Substores5174520172Contemporary Folk171244Folk266023Indie Music468040Substores5174561954Alternative Folk598642Contemporary Folk32Folk301668Styles517413463671Post Grunge602072American Alternative30Alternative Rock301668Styles51741JF25V5PSY6TKvery best alt-country29MTWJ99AMWDUThe Handsome Family3HYQG04MZNQX91996 Albums that Don't SuckB000005IKLhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B000005IKL%2526location=/o/ASIN/B000005IKL%25253FSubscriptionId=0CNXJKY3C82HD479K602293377Kerosene DreamAudio CD1698USD$16.9813Music2000-01-01From the Sundown Sky619981007320998USD$9.98268USD$2.688140011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewgBoH%2BJCTNVmfYSNSSnSFJ5RqEPpn5JP5ZZKg9%2B3ISKstWdqCXV2dSXde0izsym5CphwnTVd8AH4%3D1698USD$16.98Special Order5.051B000005IKL54A1EMWWPPJU0YMW42003-10-08A Phoenix rises out of Portland, Oregon!As a fellow Portlander, I am, of course, a huge Kerosene Dream fan, but validly so. Kerosene Dream is a great band and From the Sundown Sky is a great album. The songs on this album have that folky, almost rockabilly, quality. "'79 Country Squire" is a great roadtrip song and I always listen to it on the road changing the lyrics to suit the make and model of the car I am currently driving. "Chance" is perhaps my favorite song on the album. Not only is it a good, singable song, but lyrically I feel that it is about me. "All in Black" is excellent with exceptional lyrics. "Phoenix" is the song I bought the album for. I first heard this song performed live on a local radio station years ago and I was amazed. I went to see the band that weekend and purchased the album. "Phoenix" is still probably their best song. Kerosene Dream may not have "made it big" yet, but what the hell does the mainstream know anyway. Kerosene Dream produces quality music and I am proud that they are from my home town!B000005IKL51A39O4VMIJVXTWA11999-11-01Kerosene Dream has the best roots music in the NorthWest.The first time I heard this album, I could'nt believe my ears. It stayed in my ears & my CD player for weeks. Thier music & thier lyrics both have a down home feel that lifts the heart & spirit. While listening, you can't help but tap your foot, & sing outloud. This CD could quite possibly be the best one I have ever owned.B000005IKL51A2JVZQB3ED6ZVO11999-07-31Ten Thousand Famous Bands Aren't Close to This GoodSome of these guys have been traipsing across the northwest since long before grunge's rise and (whew, thank god) fizzle. Nine Days Wonder, The Renegade Saints--old Dave Coey bands that moved yer feet & heart both. Listen to the samples, buy the CD, nuff said.B000005IKL53A36W0BTW5RNMV131999-04-19Portland's Best Kept SecretPortland's best kept secret is Kerosene Dream. Three part harmonies and great song writing is felt throughout this album. If you like Crosby, Stills, and Nash and The Allman Brothers... kick it up a notch to Kerosene Dream!B000005IKL53ATVPDKIKX0DER31998-07-05A right-on dancing and driving album for the summer!The first time I heard Kerosene Dream play several months ago at a small Irish pub, I bought this album at the end of the show. They immediately reeled me in with their exquisite harmonies and the masterful guitar playing of Ben Sturgill. Ben, Bart, and Dave have spent years perfecting their craft, and their talents blend together for a tasty musical treat that I never tire of. These boys rock!468110Rock Jam Bands225374Jam Bands40Rock301668Styles5174B000005CRAhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B000005CRA%2526location=/o/ASIN/B000005CRA%25253FSubscriptionId=0CNXJKY3C82HD479K602186950Rosalie SorrelsAudio CD1598USD$15.98117Music1994-01-17What Does It Mean to Love?0482482113211695USD$16.95899USD$8.993995USD$39.95331011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewThis item is currently not available by this merchant63716General32Folk301668Styles517463719Traditional Folk32Folk301668Styles5174B0000027IYhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B0000027IY%2526location=/o/ASIN/B0000027IY%25253FSubscriptionId=0CNXJKY3C82HD479K60215551http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000027IY.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg5050http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000027IY.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.gif130130http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000027IY.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif300301Audio CDJohann Sebastian BachGustav HolstJoseph SchwantnerPercy GraingerCharles IvesDmitry ShostakovichNikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-KorsakovMichio MamiyaJohn Philip SousaDonald HunsbergerMarie Alatalo998USD$9.9818Music1992-05-19Eastman Wind Ensemble Live in Osaka074644719826717USD$7.17717USD$7.1717100011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewU9d1ymSSTXy6eV4lfEsWJPjPwpx0MEROyV5lZA0dJLOUMWO0hwnfoMOBt4FoUcSZ7dXnxSlO2uc%3D998USD$9.98Usually ships in 24 hours5.082B0000027IY31A3IMK0UC0KCHZJ22004-06-22Good program, occasionally shaky performanceAny Band enthusiast knows that the Eastman Wind Ensemble is the back bone of what we do, they were the first "wind ensemble" and the recordings are still standard. The original Mercury Monos of the 50s are all must-owns despite the poor recording quality occasionally. "Live in Osaka" is an outstanding cd, and is a great crash course in band music (who ever dreamed of putting the Holst Suite, Lincolnshire, Stars and Stripes and Festive all on ONE CD?!) but the performance falls short in a few places. There is some brass inaccuracy in Festive Overture, Stars and Stripes and a BIG splat at the end of the "March" in the Holst Suite #1. Don't get me wrong, this is overall a solid performance and a CD I enjoy listening to. I also question Hunsburger's tempos in Lincolnshire a tad, he takes off for the races in the first movement! Even though its great to have them all on one cd, get yourself a good mix of the Mercury Monos and some Cleveland Symphonic Winds cds if you want "standard band lit".B0000027IY52AH08WQG9NRMHX22002-10-18Eastman another very good cd...Eastman Wind ensemble is one of the best wind orchestras in the world ,in the same class as the Tokyo Kosei wind orchestra.<br>As always the eastman wind amazes us with theyr very good musicality and ensemble...another very good cd to own for any wind player....B0000027IY53A17NFEX0N7QF6N32002-06-04simply magnificent ! ......That an ensemble could play this beautifully is hard to imagine. If you've ever enjoyed a wonderful ensemble, a perfect concert, or a the thrill of a "tight", well-rehearsed concert band, you know then what to expect from this CD. The performances are great and the sound magnificent. The selection of music spans traditional to modern, and the ensemble rises to the occasion no-matter what the piece. A must-buy CD.B0000027IY51AUNM2RDJIRPOA12002-02-03One Of The EWE'S Best!I own many many of the Eastman Wind Ensembles Recordings and I have to say this is one of the greatest.<br>I have to say the Grainger works on this Cd are probably the best around, a great way to learn and to listen from the recording. The Shostakovich and Bach pieces are amazing as well<br>This is a Great CD of many Great Works by many great composers. <br>You will enjoy it!B0000027IY52AUNM2RDJIRPOA22002-02-03One Of The EWE'S Best!I own many many of the Eastman Wind Ensembles Recordings and I have to say this is one of the greatest.<br>I have to say the Grainger works on this Cd are probably the best around, a great way to learn and to listen from the recording. The Shostakovich and Bach pieces are amazing as well<br>This is a Great CD of many Great Works by many great composers. <br>You will enjoy it!B00000IIX5Suites 1 & 2 / Folk Song Suite / Toccata MarzialeB0000057L7Frederick Fennell & the Eastman Wind Ensemble: Grainger; Persichetti...B0000026PXVaughan Williams: Toccata Marziale/Variations for Wind Band/Hindemith: Konzertmusik for Blasorchester Op.41/Copland:B0000057LUFrederick Fennell & the Eastman Wind Ensemble: Sullivan; Rossini-Respighi...B0000057KRBritish And American Band Classics7616All Works by J.S. 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The perfect gift for your football fan!520284Pop Rock171249Pop266023Indie Music468040Substores5174B000087JBChttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B000087JBC%2526location=/o/ASIN/B000087JBC%25253FSubscriptionId=0CNXJKY3C82HD479K602315670Ho-HumAudio CD1598USD$15.9811Music2003-01-07Near & Dear656605932422500USD$5.00798USD$7.981080011ATVPDKIKX0DERhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/help/seller/home.html?seller=ATVPDKIKX0DERNewRQ2PHZ2y2b3sL0i4SLikEqnuRMmx24B8xaLZPT%2BFBSy8Kz6iIRvh1YFe1ALmrFIlH0tGr76U%2B5Y%3D1598USD$15.98Usually ships in 24 hours5.021B000087JBC50A36P0RMNJ7S2T702003-09-25Review by Mike Marlett for F5 WichitaOriginally published May 29, 2003<br>by Mike Marlett <p>Last year's Near and Dear might be one of the most infectious pop albums of all time. <p>Ho-Hum goes above and beyond the call of duty for a normal independent band. Based in Little Rock, it not only owns not only its own label - Playadel - but it's own record store - Anthro-Pop. <p>Founders - and brothers - Rod and Lenny Bryan controlled every aspect of this album. And their love of music and technical control shines through. <p>The tracks warble, pop and jingle. They pass from light-hearted bouncing on tracks such as "Ordinary People" to the earnest, keyboard-based ballad "Ladyboy." They all seem nostalgic for the big '80s yet as cutting edge as Wilco's much-acclaimed Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. <p>It can be hard to think about. But, being independent, Ho-Hum doesn't really care what you think. <p>"I'm Wakin' Up" starts the album off with a sliding, hypnotic statement of independence: "I don't give a damn about your rock 'n' roll; I just want to find a key for my keyhole." <p>It's almost hard to describe how effective the hook of each song is. Happy and mumbled, you haven't mindlessly hummed along with songs like these since Nirvana invited us to sniff the Teen Spirit. But unlike Nirvana, there is no slashing out at the fans. Just some melancholy. <p>Some tracks are just playful. "Writing Country" scratches along like an old 45, clicks like a typewriter and blurs words to define itself. The official lyrics say, "Took writing/riding lessons; Intellectual Digressions." Writing/riding become one word, a trick that plays out in later lines with "There's an [axe-see-int] That must be mastered; To avoid a 'cred disaster." And that it does. <p>Ho-Hum/Playadel's website, www.playadel.com.B000087JBC52A1ZYJ2EDG1TH7B22003-03-12New York Press Music Review by Kevin CanfieldNear and Dear<p>Ho-Hum<br>(Playadel) <p>A little less than a year ago after the Strokes hysteria had run its course but before we were all subjected to that awful Springsteen record-the national media told readers that it had discovered the site of rock's Next Big Thing. The indie movement of the moment was occurring in, of all places on the planet, Omaha, NE. Big, glossy magazines weighed in with breathless pieces on Omaha bands like Cursive and the Faint, and Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst, he of the perfectly mussed hair, big doleful eyes and increasingly smug social consciousness, emerged as a full-blown Gen-Y cover boy.<p>The Cornhusker State seemed like a weird place for an alt-rock revival, but not as unlikely, perhaps, as Little Rock, AR. The taste-making rock critics have yet to descend on the city that gave us Clinton, Whitewater and all else that was right and wrong about America of the 1990s. But assuming these things are based on merit, not just p.r., those same critics will soon be trumpeting Little Rock artists like the magnificent Ho-Hum.<p>Near and Dear, released this month to absolutely no fanfare, is the sixth album from Ho-Hum (brothers Lenny and Rod Bryan, Samuel Heard and Brad Brown). It is a deeply catchy and layered disc, built on an amalgamation of influences, from the Pixies and Sonic Youth to Miracle Legion and XTC. The record comes at a time when the band is celebrating something of a creative renaissance and, while they're at it, enjoying their freedom from the viscous grip of major label glad-handers. <p>In 1996-not long after Universal Records released Ho-Hum's first album, Local-the band's four members felt they were ready to put out a followup. The label insisted on installing its own producers for the second record, and before long the band decided the situation was unworkable; they opted out of their contract with Universal and began a five-year journey that took them from a mega-major-label to the smallest of small record labels. Two years ago, after releasing a pair of discs with HTS Records, the band started its own label, Playadel; Near and Dear is the label's fifth release.<p>What's extraordinary about Near and Dear-and it is truly an extraordinary record-is the degree to which the band seems capable of doing almost anything. "I'm-A-Waking Up," the first song, is a swirling, triumphant riff on indifference and self-discovery, constructed around unobtrusive keyboard warbling and rhythmic drumming. It builds slowly, but by mid-song Lenny Bryan lets go with a howling coda for his apathetic youth: "Here's to hands holding you just like they want to hold me/Pray to yourselves you pirates of peace unfaithfully/Shame on myself for sleeping through the start of my life/I'm waking up to the best of peculiar life."<p>The second track, "Ordinary People," is as infectious as the first, but sonically quite different. Four-plus minutes of buoyant, almost bouncy pop-the guitars jangle and crunch, the synth skips right along-it does more with a simple five-word refrain than has any song in recent memory. "I came on very strong," Lenny Bryan repeats three times, emphasizing every second syllable before adding an emphatic "Indeed." <p>Elsewhere, the polymath quartet plays straight-ahead punk-tinged rock ("Handheld" sounds like it would've fit in on Death to the Pixies), unabashed love songs ("Corny"), winsome synth-pop ("NearandDear") and gleefully bitter breakup songs ("Land Ho!"). <p>This is an outstanding record from an unpretentious band. There is not a Conor Oberst among them.<p>Volume 16, Issue 467206General40Rock301668Styles5174513062General406646Vocal Pop37Pop301668Styles5174520290Traditional & Vocal Pop171249Pop266023Indie Music468040Substores5174912012General265640Broadway & Vocalists301668Styles5174