5 Links to Consider | December 11, 2024
A round-up of this week's compelling and considered clicks, compiled from The Absolute Sound's veteran staff of experts and reviewers.
Struggles and Symphonies: Does Money Affect Creativity in the History of Western Classical Music?
How do financial constraints affect individual innovation and creativity? Understanding this relationship is essential, especially when innovation and creativity rely on the capacity to take risks. To investigate this, we focus on Western classical composers, a unique group of innovators whose lives offer a rich historical case study.
That is the subtitle of a new paper by Karol J. Borowiecki, Yichu Wang, and Marc T. Law. Steely Danās 'Katy Lied' Getting Long-Awaited Vinyl Reissue
Due out Jan. 31, the Katy Lied reissue is the latest installment in Geffen and UMeās campaign repressing the bandās classic ABC and MCA Records catalog, a program personally overseen by founding member Donald Fagen. The series, comprising the bandās first seven albums, began in 2022 with Canāt Buy A Thrill and will conclude with The Royal Scam.
Read in uDiscoverMusic: https://apple.news/AIeuZ_WjUQ_i0m8vYVJGZkQ
Katy Lied is coming back to vinyl. Steely Danās 1975 LP will be available in the LP format for the first time in over 40 years thanks to a new reissue coming this winter. Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Biography
This groundbreaking biography offers fresh perspectives on the life, ideas, and music of French twentieth-century composer, organist, and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen. Drawing from previously unexplored sketches and archival material, the book seamlessly combines elements of biography, musicology, theology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics to present a nuanced perspective on Messiaenās work.
āThis is a thoroughly refreshing and original evaluation of Messiaenāboth the man and his musicāthat should appeal to anyone wanting to know more about this endlessly fascinating composerā
This is what Victorian people sounded likeā¦
This video looks at how efforts to promote Edisonās new āperfectedā phonograph in Britain led to the preservation of the voices of many famous Victorians - from poets and composers like Robert Browning and Arthur Sullivan, to major political figures like William Gladstone. We will also see how his rivals finally succeeded in recording the voice of Queen Victoria.
A Jazz Harpist? Moving Finger by Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby was a pioneering American jazz harpist and composer, renowned for blending her harpās classical elegance with the improvisational depth of jazz. Her groundbreaking work, including albums like Afro-Harping, expanded the boundaries of both jazz and harp performance, influencing generations of musicians.
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