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Tag: Vietnam War

  • The prodigal doc returns

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    Image via Wikipedia Eugene Chadbourne is interviewed and profiled by FFWD. When you decide to check out one of Eugene Chadbourne’s gigs with the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir this week, it could be for one of many reasons. Perhaps you know him as the inventor of the electric rake, a cacophonous mash-up of guitar pick-ups…

  • Kronos Quartet Does Crumb’s Black Angels

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    Image via Wikipedia From the NY Times: Anyone’s initial reaction to George Crumb’s “Black Angels,” a 1970 composition for amplified string quartet meant to echo the dark mood of the Vietnam War era, is likely to be a strong one. When the violinist David Harrington first heard the piece, in 1973, his response was to…

  • Crumb is All the Rage Again

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    Image via Wikipedia From the New York Times: George Crumb and his music are getting a second wind these days. In the 1970s Mr. Crumb’s colorful, idiosyncratic chamber works were all the rage: no self-respecting new-music fan, particularly of college age, was without the Nonesuch recording of his “Ancient Voices of Children” (1970), and his…