http://roedeo.wordpress.com Rants, raves and reviews about music & media Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:35:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nice to see Dave Brubeck get a well-deserved honor yesterday...the legendary jazzman came to Washington DC to honored with the Ben Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy - a sort of "lifetime achievement" award for Americans going abroad. The award was launched last year by our piano-playing Secretary of ... http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/bravo-for-brubeck/ Quoth the Elder: "The Red Sox understand that Greek Drama will be written by Geeks and Dons." Seems it took two World Series wins to chase all the ghosts rattling the Nation's cage. Good for all concerned. PS. Sox won the game, too...Five-zip. http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/bill-buckner-wont-you-please-come-home/ Or, "One Commie Waffle, hold the Parfait..." In the Morning News from the Mountain State: KFC employee accused of stealing 16 ice creams By SHERREE GREBENSTEIN / Journal Staff Writer MARTINSBURG — West Virginia State Police arrested an Inwood man Sunday after he allegedly took about 16 parfaits from the freezer of a ... http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/montani-semper-liberi/ Not quite one year to the day it was published, funnyman writer Gene Weingarten's celebrated story about Joshua Bell busking in the Washington Metro wound up as one of six Pulitzer Prizes won by the Washington Post today - an impressive and near-record haul. Even though the ... http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/play-in-subway-win-pulitzer/ Funny blog post today by Bob Boilen of All Song Considered about Bad Band Names...a perpetual source of amusement for musicheads. What got Bob going was a band called The Dodos, whowere DOA until he heard them play at South by Southwest in Austin. Of course, poorly-named ... http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/when-bad-names-happen-to-good-bands/ Any resemblance to Mike “I Was Just Thinking….” Barnicle is purely coincidental…. Kind of amazing to hear the wall-to-wall media coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea….startling and gratifying to hear snippets of the New World Symphony in the middle of network newscasts. Worth reading:  Anne Midgette’s column ... http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/miscellaeneous-musings-the-ny-phil-howard-theatre-wypr-no-depression-pete-seeger/ After Sunday's posting about my non-viewing of the Academy Awards (and judging by the low-ratings scorecard, I had plenty of company!), once I got to the concert I realized/remembered three more factoids that made the whole music - movies link with Jian Wang even more even more apropos: *It could ... http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/186/ I am perhaps the only person in the blogoverse to look at this and think immediately of the shape-note singing tradition that was developed in America in the 19th century. Back then, they used differently-shaped notes to teach people who couldn't read music to sing; today, ... http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/life-imitatesvideo-games-the-guitar-zeroes/ Unlike last year, I won’t be in front of the boobtube tonight for Oscar night; instead I’ll be doing one of my Concert Previews at a Washington Performing Arts Society - sponsored “house concert” featuring a terrific young Chinese cellist named Jian Wang, who’s in town to play various ... http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/js-the-oscars-that-old-bach-magic/ Looking out at the snow and ice on a twenty-degree day, a story from yesterday’s Toronto Globe & Mail to warm the cockles o’my ice-skating heart: news of a Hockey Symphony... Wednesday night, trail-blazing Montreal maestro Kent Nagano will lift his baton to conduct what is perhaps the world’s ... http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/hockey-night-insymphony-hall/