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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts Madonna
New York Times – Mar 11, 2008
Early-1960s Ventures hits helped define the basic rock-band lineup of two guitars bass and drums. They performed “Walk Don’t Run” with a substitute lead guitarist since one of the band’s founders Bob Bogle could not attend. “That was the song that made all of the guitar heroes want pick up the guitar” said Paul Shaffer the night’s music director.
Leonard Cohen | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Mar 11, 2008
It was his mother who encouraged Cohen as a writer especially of poetry during his childhood. This fit in with the progressive intellectual environment in which he was raised which allowed him free inquiry into a vast range of pursuits. His relationship to music was more tentative — he took up the guitar at age 13 initially as a way to impress a girl but was good enough to play country & western songs at local cafes and he subsequently formed a group called the Buckskin Boys. At 17 he enrolled in McGill University as an English major — by this time he was writing poetry in earnest and became part of the university’s tiny underground “bohemian” community. Cohen only earned average grades but was a good enough writer to earn the McNaughton Prize in creative writing by the time he graduated in 1955 — a year later the ink barely dry on his degree he published his first book of poetry Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956) which got great reviews but didn’t sell especially well. He was already beyond the age that rock & roll was aimed at –.
PERFRMING ARTS
Washington Post – Mar 11, 2008
“Private Life of a Cat” did a better job of exhibiting the duo’s strengths. Again some of the lyrics made little sense (”Can you tell now the answer to disco?”) but this did not matter. With Lindefelt standing on his toes singing the repeated bittersweet refrain “Where did all the love go?” and banging out snare drum beats and Fredrik adding jangly guitar lines the LK nicely blended minimalistic and mainstream touches. Three candidates have been taking turns this concert season at leading the singers and the selection committee hopes to pick the winner by this summer… Tarik ‘Regan’s "Dorchester Canticles" and Morten Lauridsen’s "Lux Aeterna" followed the Britten. Both are pleasantly derivative — embedded in that British tradition of music for stone cathedrals borrowed by a plethora of American composers as well though ‘Regan’s percussion and harp additions were effective extras. This is music comfortable to sing and accessible to listeners — meaning it sells to the typical audience and choral group.
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