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ravishdears music is the only savior ravishdears music is the only savior skip to content home about this blog what i love pulleys levers classical rock to world why should you care older posts music outside the box posted on 17 august 2015 by charles thiesen living in boston puts me in the middle of a vibrant stew of music the greater boston area has more music venues more musicians more music schools than any place else in the world i made that up but it could be true it certainly feels like it what this shows me about music being made by working musicians is that it defies categories a great example of this was a concert at ryles jazz club the other evening by the ludovica string quartet the leader ludovica burtone is an accomplished italian classical violinist who came here to berklee to study jazz composition just that combination is an example of this stew i m talking about the competition for slots in venues like ryles guarantees high caliber performance but nothing guarantees magic for that you have to be lucky i was lucky that evening or maybe skillful i was there for a reason i d heard the lsq before and knew what to expect burtone s aggressive mix of tango jazz italian folk song and her own compositions gave me what i d come for each piece satisfied in a different way then everything came together in blazing sun a piece burtone wrote while a student at berklee that pours all her influences into deep jazz in 7 4 time and 3 4 and 4 4 lsq s music doesn t stay still look for them then listen you ll thank me share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in what i love tagged jazz lsq ludovica burtone ludovica string quartet riles tango leave a comment new music thrives posted on 8 july 2011 by charles thiesen a few clicks around this blog will tell you i m nuts about new music i m fortunate to have a cousin elisabeth halliday in the thick of it she introduces me to stuff i might never hear otherwise she is a soprano and she sings with rhymes with opera a chamber opera company dedicated to performing experimental vocal music rwo is two sopranos a baritone and two composers how cool is it for an opera company to have its own composers two of them continue reading share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in classical what i love 13 comments aldo clementi my new favorite posted on 13 march 2011 by charles thiesen during the last two or three weeks i ve submerged myself in the music of morton feldman music so simple and sere that i found it hard to listen to anything else old macdonald was too melodically complex forget mozart then i stopped by one of my favorite blogs tim rutherford johnson s the rambler linked in my blog list to the right but until now with a bad url sorry there i read it really feels like we re coming to the end aldo clementi the last of that extraordinary generation of post war italian composers has died at the age of 86 i m embarrassed to say i d never heard of him continue reading share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in classical what i love tagged 20th century music aldo clementi classical music clementi morton feldman 2 comments the epicenter of culture posted on 23 february 2011 by charles thiesen i apologize in advance for this it s one of the posts you probably should skip it has nothing to do with music and is only here because i want to say it and i have a blog so nyah nyah nyah i get to say it it smacks of language policing it s probably not nearly as amusing as i think it is and on top of that it happened because i was reading about the tragic earthquake in new zealand so it s slightly callous as well you ve been warned share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in why should you care tagged earthquake epi epicenter language language police my housemate nate 16 comments morton feldman the essence posted on 2 january 2011 by charles thiesen i ve been gestating a piece about the greatest composer of the twentieth century for over a month i m still not halfway to understanding what i want to say about him since i have to post something to meet my commitment to keep this blog active i ve decided to give you some samples of the music i m thinking about continue reading share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in classical what i love tagged coptic light greatest twentieth century composer kronos quartet morton feldman piano and string quartet rothko chapel 8 comments tōru takemitsu posted on 17 december 2010 by charles thiesen i find it very hard to define or characterize the work of the japanese composer toru takemitsu i spent a long time reading descriptions of it from all over the web trying to find something that fit the music i know that i could share with you here then i realized d oh i don t need a description i ve got the music here s a taste https ravishdears wordpress com wp content uploads 2010 12 nostalghia sample 01 mp3 that was the opening of notalghia performed by the melbourne symphony orchestra directed by hiroyuki iwaki michael dauth solo violin continue reading share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in classical what i love tagged for away nostalghia takemitsu toru takemitsu 7 comments bach in the background posted on 11 december 2010 by charles thiesen even the newest convert to classical music is likely to agree bach rules right now i have the goldberg variations on in the background i feel a little guilty using such great music as the accompaniment to my life but i often pause and notice particular phrases stop for a minute and listen to a passage nonetheless i wish i spent more time actually listening i regularly resolve to do that and then forget but this post gives me an excuse to pay attention right now and you can do it with me continue reading share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in classical pulleys levers tagged andras schiff angela hewitt bach glenn gould goldberg variations hewitt schiff 4 comments the unlikeliness of buses posted on 2 december 2010 by charles thiesen this is another of those things that i feel compelled to write just because i have a blog it has nothing to do with music you should probably ignore it i wouldn t follow this link if i were you share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in why should you care tagged carbon foot print carbon paw print martians mastodons robert a heinlein seats 39 stranger in a strange land valentine michael smith 5 comments rich complex and beautiful lamma bada posted on 2 december 2010 by charles thiesen rich complex and beautiful could describe someone to fall in love with but i m talking about an arabic song sometimes rendered in english as lamma bada yatathanna an ancient muwashshah a genre of secular music from al andalus moorish spain which means it s from some time before 1492 that s half a millennium ago to hear this wonderful song and learn more about it click here share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in pulleys levers rock to world what i love tagged arabic music hamza el din lamma bada lamma bada yatathanna lena chamamyan muwashshah radio tarifa samai samai thaqil 35 comments why do we hate modern classical music alex ross posted on 2 december 2010 by charles thiesen alex ross s blog is the first in my list of links over there on the right that s because alex ross is a god i never miss his writing in the new yorker i m in the middle of reading his wonderful book the rest is noise i can t wait to start his next one listen to this but even bach nods and alex you ll never read this so i ll presume on our slender web relationship and call you by your given name you ve taken a nap on this one if you re not alex ross you might not care enough to click here to read the rest share this share share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print like loading posted in classical pulleys levers tagged 20th century music alex ross arnold schoenberg atonal music difficult music ross schoenberg the rest is noise 4 comments older posts search for ravish d this blog is about music and me what i love and what i ve learned i m a musical amateur in the french sense of lover of but i ve been listening deeply passionately and i hope intelligently for about 50 years and have discovered music and noticed things about it that people with ears and passion like mine might be happy to hear about i m charles thiesen a writer tech journalism novels flash fiction i live in a vegetarian co op house in dorchester ma with a cat and six other housemates only one of whom is my partner i tweet as 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