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Lightnin Hopkins

Lightning Hopkins: A Blues Ghost Story

Jun 4, 2018Matthew ParisEssays, Music, Reviews

This is a strange tale at best. Back in the late 50s I discovered that there were two kinds of Americans blues singing guitar players, one from kind from the East with precise virtuoso technique who could play in all the keys, who often sang in a sardonic urbane style. Then there was what one

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The Advent Of Hector Berlioz

Jun 4, 2018Matthew ParisEssays, Music, Reviews

A week ago I attended a great performance of Beatrice and Benedict at the Manhattan School Of Music. I think it is the only opera I know of that was commissioned by a gambling casino, the German Mafia in Baden-Baden. Our Atlantic City and Las Vegas gave us only Wayne Newton. Though Berlioz wrote this

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