johnrob
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| What's your latest "Discovery" BETHANY AND RUFUS - 900 MILESI saw Bethany Yarrow, daughter of Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary, at the Canmore Folk Festiful yesterday was blown away. Bethany's mesmerizing and comanding voice blends seamlessly with the cello playing of Rufus ... | |
| haunting/dark classical For something alittle different try:Tavner - The protecting VeilPeteris Vasks - Distant LightSanctuary - Suite for organ, cello, bass clarinet, and stringsJohn | |
| Music to DH ski with SlothmanThanks for the suggestion of Joe Satriani. I listened to Surfing with the Alien wile skiing bumps and steeps at Lake Louise today. Great music for high energy skiing.John | |
| VSA VR4 SR or JR as a match to my system and room It appears to me that VSA owners are a passionate group. Although the responders to this thread are self selected (not a random sample) there are few negative statements about any of the VSA products, no one has complained about significantly poor... | |
| VSA VR4 SR or JR as a match to my system and room I was away for a few days.thanks for the input.John | |
| a little dinner music I often play classical or Spanish guitar for an evening dinner party. It's makes a nice unobtrusive background, and is also relaxing and stimulating at the same time. There have been at least two Spanish guitar threads in the not to distant past w... | |
| Ani Difranco I'll second Dilate. I also like Knuckle Down (2005) and Living In Clip (a live album).She does several versions of Amazing Grace which are worth a listen or two. One is on Dilate and another on Living In Clip. Both versions are nicely irreverent. ... | |
| DK Design Review Ellery9111. Who said Audioaril represents DK (or for that matter anyone other than himself).2. Generally, it's frowned upon for an owner to get involved in these threads. If Larry vigorously defends DK, he will be criticized. If he does nothing "i... | |
| DK Design Review Most of Pathos amps utilize this design and does the BAT hybrid. | |
| DK Design Review I'm sure that most would agree that both subjectivity and passion play a large role of this hobby - just review the tube versus solid state debates on Agon as an example. The DK issue has, unfortunately, fallen into the middle one of these debates... | |
| What is/are your the most favourite composer s ? The responses are quite interesting. Only one or two contempory (currently living and composing) composers! Many of the favorites are well over 100+ years old.My fovorites include:Part, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, TavnerJohn | |
| What Happened to Neil Young's New Release ??? I appreciated Living with War. Neil has the courage to say it as he believes, knowing that verbal retribution is not far away. Several of the songs on Living with War focus on intolerance, greed, injustice, and corruption. It's not a surprise that... | |
| cello music I also like the Starker Cello Suites. Another good recording of the same music is by Paul Tortelier (EMI Classics). One of my favorite CDs is Les Voix Humaines played by Jordi Savall (AliaVox). He uses two different instruments (Viole de gambe) bu... | |
| Spanish Guitar music I just noticed that someone else sent the link - my mistake.I got to see both Jesse Cook at the Banff Centre last year - excellent live concert with significant middle eastern influence. I downloaded his CD - Gravity - to my MP3 player and have be... | |
| Spanish Guitar music I asked this question last year and received a number of excellent responses which add to those listed above. The thread is....http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1106276700&openusid&zzJohnrob&4&5#JohnrobBTW, I found ... |