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Violin Grades 7-8: Violin Solo

Paul Harris

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Now more than ever, the ability to sight-read fluently is an essential part of the training of...

A Short History of Gardens

Gordon Campbell

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Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and...

Alexander Zemlinsky: A Lyric Symphony

Marc D. Moskovitz

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From Zemlinsky's early success as a composer and widely recognized achievements as a conductor to...

Curtain Call: A Year Backstage in London Theatre: 2016

Matt Humphrey and John Schwab

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Containing exclusive photography of Nicole Kidman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Imelda Staunton, Mark...

Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie

Nejib

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Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack: David Bowie had an extraordinary talent for...

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Once In A Very Blue Moon by Nanci Griffith

1984 | Country

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"Texan singer-novelist Nanci Griffith doesn't compromise with her audience. I once heard her reverse-heckle a fan shouting out requests, retorting in her Tweety-Bird voice, "I don't come to where you work and yell at you!" Like all her first several albums this one is lyrics-heavy, with folk-country accompaniment (Dobros, lap steel, Bela Fleck's banjo), and the stories take precedence over the genre, to the point where she actually criticises country. The black housewife narrating 'Mary & Omie' reports "And I thank my Omie for taking me out of the South." Take that, Stephen Foster! Like the very different Mother Fist, this 1986 album is dedicated to Truman Capote (among others), and every song is a story song, full of car-jumping daredevils, lovelorn young widows, and of course touring musicians bored in buses, staring out into the endless falling snow. "

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