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Jazz Punks, "Smashups" (Foam@The Mouth Records). If you’re not already used to this idea, you should be getting there.
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"Serenade," set to Tchaikovsky’s glorious "Serenade for Strings," was the great choreographer George Balanchine’s first ballet in America. It is also the Neglia Ballet Artists’ first full-length Balanchine.
The great baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died, and eulogies are coming from all over the classical music world. The case could be made that Fischer-Dieskau, who was just short of his 87th birthday, was the greatest singer of the 20th century. Certainly there was nobody greater.
Classical Berg, Beethoven, Violin Concertos, Isabelle Faust, violin, the Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado, conductor (Harmonia Mundi).
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Pop Now That’s What I Call Music, 42 (EMI). Call it "Now 42" for short. Everyone’s favorite Supermarket Survey of Rock Hits is now up to its 42nd installment and this one, to be frank, isn’t so hot. ( "Now 38" if you can find it—now that’s what I’d call music.) Kelly Clarkson is suitably hit-sounding with "Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)," but after that you’re on your own, even when Madonna shows up with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. for "Give Me All Your Lovin.’ " Yes, there’s Bruno Mars and Gotye featuring Kimbra, Train, Taylor Swift and Labrinth featuring Busta Rhymes, but it’s unlikely that even the Grammy folks would want to nominate any of this guff. Two and a half stars out of four. (Jeff Simon)
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Brief reviews of select releases.
AM Stations Today 9:30 AM• WJJL 1440—Casa Rico: Lenny Rico; Italian music; also 10 a.m. Sat.
In 1999, when West Seneca native Robert Struble helped to launch IBiquity Digital, the nation's first digital radio corporation, he knew that selling the public on HD radio would take time.
Brief reviews of select releases.
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The News' arts editor pays tribute to "World's Oldest Teenager" and looks beyond that nickname.
Dick Clark, the television host who helped bring rock 'n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," has died. He was 82.
Jazz Charles Mingus, "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" and "Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus" (Impulse/Universal, two discs); Keith Jarrett, "Mysteries and Shades" (Impulse/ Universal, two discs)
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A music teacher once told me that there were two kinds of people in this world: those who clap on one and three, and those who clap on two and four.
The Boss treated an enthralled crowd to old favorites as well as cuts from new album.
AM Stations Today 9:30 AM• WJJL 1440—Casa Rico: Lenny Rico; Italian music; also 10 a.m. Sat.
