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World's in a spin
Life, John Clewley, Published on 23/04/2024
» Record Store Day has been part of the music scene for 20 years now, held twice a year in April and "Black Friday" in November. The day-long event is held to celebrate independent record stores around the globe, bringing together musicians, producers, media, DJs and retailers to enjoy new and reissued vinyl gems.
Echoes of Isan
Life, John Clewley, Published on 12/03/2024
» Sombat Simla is one of Thailand's top khaen players. He's been bending the notes of his khaen baet (eight rows of double pipes, sixteen in total) for more than 50 years.
Apple Music introduces redesigned replay experience, reveals top songs of 2022
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 19/12/2022
» This has been an exciting year in music with online streamers being exposed to new sounds, languages and genres, on Apple Music. Year-end charts show how Apple Music listeners are influential in making the year a memorable one. —for individuals and the community.
Can I interest you in South American psychedelics?
Life, John Clewley, Published on 25/05/2021
» The Caribbean is in the spotlight in this week's column, with two new and contrasting albums from different parts of the region featuring.
Bob Dylan baffles the world again
Published on 28/03/2020
» Bob Dylan has surprised and baffled the music world by releasing his first original song in eight years, a mysterious 17-minute meditation on the assassination of John F Kennedy.
Jennifer Garner leads People magazine's beautiful list
Life, Published on 25/04/2019
» Actress, businesswoman and children's advocate Jennifer Garner is featured on the cover of People magazine's annual beautiful issue, the magazine said.
Sounds of Shostakovich and Sibelius fill TCC's chambers
Life, Published on 06/03/2019
» British-born conductor Douglas Bostock made a hugely positive impression on the entire ensemble of the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra instrumentalists when he conducted them for the first time in 2018, and his return visit this year for "Li-Wei Qin Plays Shostakovich" at the Thailand Cultural Centre last month was no less inspiring.
Romantic and melancholic
Life, Published on 26/02/2019
» In the run up to this year's Valentine's Day, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra served up rousing masterworks of appropriately pitched emotional content on Feb 8 at the Thailand Cultural Centre. "Romantic Variations" was a cleverly imagined programme title for three vastly contrasting compositions from Russia, France and England in terms of national temperament, yet they all shared the overriding universal theme of sentimental love.
Pushing boundaries
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 21/06/2017
» Who knew that appreciating art could be so physically exhausting?
Massaging the tempo
Life, Published on 05/05/2017
» The pursuit of Mozartian clarity of tone and intonation are most certainly among the chief objectives of any cello soloist as they take to the platform with an orchestra to perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's perfectly conceived Variations On A Rococo Theme Op.33. The Romantic-era composer modelled this audience favourite on the example of his Classical-era idol, although the delightful A-major theme itself is the composer's own, not borrowed. What is not quite so Mozartian is the high percentage of time the soloist is required to play in high registers at the upper end of the fingerboard, in a demanding thumb-position, not to mention the fiendishly difficult string-crossing passage-work that must be negotiated just as constant streams of scurrying semiquavers & demisemiquavers give the soloist a thoroughly good workout, with precious few bars in which he may rest before the next virtuoso entry.