The pleasures of lousy baseball are so bound up with cloying romanticism, about Chicago's crumbling old yard and Boston fans who only got to enjoy a championship as octogenarians, that you have to be cautious about touting them, so that string music doesn't start swelling.
Coleman has written music outside of the jazz realm, including string quartets, music for dance, woodwind quintets, and in the early 1970s, a symphony called Skies of America, composed with support from his Guggenheim Foundation Grant.
Some powerful string-pullers in music and politics in Vienna seem to think so.
The warmth and clarity of the guitar's plucked string sound allows this music to seem relaxed and complicated at the same time.
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On weekends, there are dance and music performances and films -- this month, catch "La Nave de los Monstruos" ("The Monsters' Ship"), a Mexican sci-fi classic, with music by postclassical string quartet Ethel.
Most of what you'll hear is fully fleshed-out music, with big string arrangements that bring to mind an Al Green record.
On the Internet, I can manufacture my own philharmonic orchestra, with string sections and woodwinds playing my music from all over the world, as I did with my orchestral album " Circus in the Sky, " which is a full representation of my approach to music and storytelling.
Just over a year later, following a string of strokes, his close friend and music publicist Keith Altham announced he had died at his home on 4 February in Andover, surrounded by family and friends.
Rocker Patti Smith and US string group Kronos Quartet have received the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
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The Icelandic band Amiina has worked as a string quartet supporting Sigur Ros, but while their music shares roots with their geographic counterparts, the resulting blooms are startlingly different.
The group kicked off the session with a live performance of the finale from Dvorak's "American" String Quartet, a staple of the chamber-music repertoire that sounded fresh in this young group's hands.
Land on a one-in-a-thousand hit like Music Man, and you stand to collect a long string of royalty checks from revivals and road shows.
Earlier in the month, the writer was at Carnegie Hall for an all-Brahms program by the mighty Emerson Quartet, and he also went to the Manhattan School of Music to attend the final event at the Robert Mann String Quartet Institute, led by the longtime first violinist of the Juilliard Quartet.
Their mix of explicit lyrics, accordions, tubas and 12-string acoustic guitars make for an odd cross between gangsta rap and polka-esque folk music.
Produced by Glasgow Unesco City of Music, the Benedetti Sessions, from 22 to 24 March, will give string players the chance to play alongside the violinist, who was awarded an MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours.
Also notice the deep commitment to the personal and profound intimacy of Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No. 2, still a sleeper, waiting for our attention to turn from music that makes bigger noises and demands.
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