The News Review:
- Bruce Springsteen – Music – New York Times
- … and Rock and Roll Since 1967 – Museum of Contemporary Art…
- Malcolm McLaren: Punk? it made my day
- Women classical music? It’s covered Even Anne Gray’s a bit…
Bruce Springsteen – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Sep 30, 2007
In which as if it weren’t already obvious I include myself. I’ve been listening to Bruce Springsteen for a long time but I can’t pretend that he provided the soundtrack for my youth. I spent my teenage years in the thrall of punk rock and its various aftermaths and came to Springsteen late past the stage of life when his great anthems of romance rebellion and escape might have had their most direct impact. As a result I associate his work with the sorrows and satisfactions of adulthood; it’s music to grow up to not out of. Springsteen’s best songs it seems to me are about compromise and stoicism; disappointment and faith; work patience and resignation. They are also frequently even the ones he wrote when he was still in his 20s about nostalgia about the desire to recapture those fleeting moments of intensity and possibility we associate with being young… Pop though is the term he and his band mates use again and again to describe “Magic. Van Zandt who has been playing and arguing about music with Mr. Springsteen for 40 years (scholars cite Nov. 3 1967 as the date of their first meeting) noted that in the past Mr. Springsteen’s more tuneful playful compositions tended not to make it onto albums. “It was nice on this one to start to be a little bit more inclusive” he said in a telephone interview a few days after my visit to Asbury Park “with a little bit more of the poppier side of things without losing any of the integrity or any of the high standards.
… and Rock and Roll Since 1967 – Museum of Contemporary Art…
New York Times – Sep 30, 2007
“There were visual art students theater arts students filmmaking students. We were all basically middle-class kids who were college educated. Everyone was hip to appropriation Minimalism and Conceptual art practices and applying that to the music that was going down. “But punk’s heyday proved short-lived. “Punk burned brightly for 18 months” said Peter Saville one of the founders of Factory Records an independent label in Manchester England that survived until 1992. By 1978 “those of us with a little more of an intellectual disposition” he said “thought ‘What next?’ “New wave and postpunk bands proved fertile ground for Mr.
Malcolm McLaren: Punk? it made my day
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 30, 2007
McLaren and Lydon have refused to speak to each other since. It is safe to assume that McLaren’s name won’t be on the VIP list for the anniversary concert. ‘I thought the fashion was much more important than the music’ McLaren says of the Sex Pistols now. ‘Punk was the sound of that fashion. ‘ It seems a contrary thing to say but then he is a contrarian and the band was his baby – so I ask about the fashion specifically the swastika T-shirt that Sid Vicious always wore at McLaren’s behest. In retrospect does he consider it to have been a gratuitous and sick provocation? ‘Not at all. ‘ Does he think he could get away with it today? ‘Probably not but back then we were still on the tip of Sixties libertarianism.
Women classical music? It’s covered Even Anne Gray’s a bit…
San Diego Union Tribune – Sep 30, 2007
Two grand pianos dominate the living room. Magnets of great composers adorn the refrigerator. The radio is tuned to classical music station XLNC1 (90. INTO VIEWAUTHOR: Anne GrayBOOK: “The World of Women in Classical Music” (2007)BOOK SIGNING: 7:30 p. Thursday at Warwick's 7812 Girard Ave… She also taught freshman English at San Diego Mesa College. Gray met her husband of 41 years Charlie Bubb on a blind date. “I thought he was a young punk sailor and he thought I was an old maid school teacher – but we didn't tell each other that until later” says Gray the mother of their two grown sons Charles 36 a fifth grade teacher and Adrian 33 who works for the federal government. “Because we became friends it worked out much better than falling madly in love right away. ”Gray who once wrote a self-help book titled “How to Hang on to Your Husband” first combined her love of music and writing in “The Popular Guide to Classical Music” (1993). Two of the chapters were devoted to women. “That was a real eye-opener” recalls Gray.