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I redesigned my web site. Since adding a picture to the front page it was slow to load, sorry! I was also able to look at the design on a wide screen computer and don't like the way the link bottoms are arranged instead of 5 across they were 7 across. So the reviews were not directly under the format links. I’m hoping this one looks good on both standard and wide screen monitors.So do you like the design better?
Are the pages loading faster?
Please email you LP, Cassette and Reel to Reel reviews to info@analoglovers.com.
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
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...to include the full review (CD portion and all)? Right now the casual reader would have no idea about (1) Who recorded the album since Sleater-Kinney aren't even mentioned in the portion you posted and (2) What the general musical style of the album was like since the meat of the review describing the performance is in the CD portion.If you want, you can expurgate the full review to remove any mention of CDs since the performance is identical and my comments apply to either format.
thanks!
However since you request I will try to combine the reviews into one. And I will leave the link so readers can read the unedited version.Thanks again for submitting,
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
Thank you, Teresa. I appreciate it. :-)If you'd like, I can consolidate the two reviews into one LP review and send that to you. Just let me know.
So far yours is the only LP review.
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
Work was originally scored for solo piano and this is a great version. Unfortunately classical is viewed as gezeer music, and the FM station at the local university panders to that. Forget any 20th century music (they do play Copland); if the baroque period disappeared, they would have nothing to play. It's sad that orchestras across the country are in financial trouble. Our local orchestra is excellent, but poorly attended. I am always amazed at how singular people are in their music tastes. If they ate the way they listen; they'd eat carrots 3 times a day, 7 days a week.
A great site, however some things lept out at me.First, keep to a single color for the body of the text and either use indentation or something to like that to make differentiations in section, or better yet, headers for the sections. Also, if quoting something from another source, try the quote tag or center justification to differentiate it from the main text.
Regarding the issues of the chagens from 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios, have you tried XHTML? it's more web friendly than HTML ever was and HTML is really a document markup language, whilst XHTML is really designed for web design and therefore will negate the rendering issues amongst different browsers for the most part. Also, CSS (Cascade Style Sheets), developed in 2000 is the wave of the future for many aspects of web design.
I'm in the process of learning all this as I know a little and hope to rebuild my website via a paid account, not a freebie via GeoCities.
Also, a correction in fact. CD's came on the market in 1982, not '84 and also, you might want to check for grammer and spelling too.
Otherwise, a very good start.
1982 sounds correct and it will be changed on next update.I do all my text in MS Word 97 and run grammar and spell check before pasting into the web builder, is there something MS word missed?
My templates are already set up by Dot5hosting I don't use HTML but regular text, insert images etc.
Thanks!
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
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One would expect give the section title a discussion with an inclusive bend yet I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised to find rather hard-nosed opinions, some it quite funny I'll admit:---
"What if Mussorgsky was considered the greatest classical composer rather than Mozart? What if instead every music listener’s first introduction to classical music was "Night on Bald Mountain"? I believe the number of listeners liking classical music would easily increase 10 fold!I find that most orchestral classical music written prior to 1800 is too academic and boring and this is the music that turns the public off of classical music."
---BTW, given you'd be the last person I'd expect to promote a CD I find it rather ironic that your first entry could easily be mistaken to be doing just that. The reason is that the pairing occurs only on a reissue CD and that's what Google locates (first entry returned) when searching "Three Pieces for Blues Band and Orchestra and Street Music"
The blues pieces appeared on LP in 1973 (or perhaps 72) coupled with Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. Street Music appeared on LP in 1977 coupled with George Gershwin's An American in Paris.
Unfortunately I haven't heard Street Music but I'm a huge fan of the blues pieces ... here's a little something I wrote about it elsewhere:
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Try William Russo's "Three Pieces for Blues Band and Orchestra" (Seiji Ozawa, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon - 2530 309). This music is not only a hoot and a blast but the third piece is probably the greatest musical *chase scene* ever recorded, the blues harmonica running for dear live with the full orchestra, and the remaining members of the blues band, all bearing down and intent on murder. I've never heard anything to compare with the powerful percussion on display here, kettle and bass drums blasting away with wild abandon, the blues band drummer doing everything in his power to keep up! BTW, this piece demands a pretty darn good turntable else forget about hunting down the LP and just go for the CD (which I can only hope features the same awesome sound).
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RUSSO: Street Music / GERSHWIN: An American In Paris - Corky Siegel, Ozawa, San Francisco Symphony - Deutsche Grammophon 2530 788RUSSO: Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra / BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" - Siegel-Schwall Band, Ozawa, San Francisco Symphony - Deutsche Grammophon 2530 309
I agree that Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra is great fun and I have owned it since its 1973 release on LP. I have owned it on Reel to Reel, 8 Track Cartridge, LP, and Japanese DGG SACD. For the past 23 years this recording has almost always been in my collection and one of my very favorites musically, sonically it's very good. Street Music is also superb but I have only owned it on LP and Japanese DGG SACD, and there are gaps of many years when I did not own Street Music.
In "Classical Music for Everyone" I am not recommending recordings but written classical pieces. The listener will choose the format and performing artists. Thus there is no pairing as you stated, its just both works are written by William Russo.
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
...to classical music in high school music appreciation class. I wonder if the Mr. Anderson (the teacher) is still alive; it would be nice to let him know that he succeded in my case.
Dave
Later Gator,
Crank up your talking machine, grab a jar of your favorite "kick-back", sit down, relax, and let the good times roll.The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I learned to love Johann Strauss thanks to Warner Brothers (they also played a lot of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies). I can still see Elmer Fudd sauntering to those Strauss waltzes. Voices of Spring as well.When my dad bought those records and played them at home I was hooked on classical for life. Our cheap record player used to pop out of the groove on the opening kettle drum of Voices of Spring. When I got older and got a real stereo of my own I couldn't believe how much detail I had missed in those great pieces.
I guess I'd have to say it was the simple but beautiful Andante from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 ... aka the "Elvira Madigan" movement from its usage in that '67 Swedish film.
Anyway after hearing it on a classical FM station I had to have it and that was one of my first classical LP purchase ... "one of" because I didn't know exactly what it was at the time so my first purchase came to a handful of Mozart concertos. Not a bad start really, somewhat akin to someone interested in 60's rock and roll lucking into a few Beatles LPs. :)
I just sent you a processed version of the image.It's brought up the colors and detail better. Hope you like.
The picture is slow to load because it is huge and being scaled down by IMG attributes in your code. If you created a picture at the actual size you're displaying it at, you'd save a lot of download time, and the browser wouldn't have to waste time scaling it down. There is also no reason for the navigation links to be graphics: just use a graphic for the bullet and make the rest plain text. In addition, you basically load the same two Javascript functions 14 times each. The scripts should be in the document head instead of the body, too.Remember, you can check your HTML code at http://validator.w3.org/. The fewer errors it has, the less work your browser has to do.
It was tricky to get the picture the correct size. I think the picture got so BIG because I used custom crop in my Kodak Easy Share software. I could not change the size of the picture in Kodak or in the Dot5hosting Web Builder I use. So I pretended to list an item on eBay, and downloaded my picture and eBay reshaped it. I copied that eBay edited picture to my hard drive with a different name and viola when I downloaded the eBay corrected picture to Web Builder it was exactly the size I wanted. I had no idea it had to be reshaped every time the page was opened! Anyway it is the right shape now.The templates come all set up through Dot5hosting that I choose because of the bandwidth and features they offered for only $3.95 with a month with 2-year commitment. I don't have to mess with HTML.
Thanks again for your help and the link. Let me know what you think of the revised yet again web page?
"Analog is Music, Digital is mathematics"
Happy listening,
Teresa
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