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The History of Classical Music © Author: Richard Fawkes Narrator: Robert Powell Duration: 5 hours: 5 minutes Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks (August 1997) Duration of each Chapter:- 01 The Early, Medieval and Renaissance Periods [1hr: 13min] 02 The Baroque and Classical Periods [1hr: 18min] 03 The Romantic Period [1hr: 17min] 04 The Twentieth Century [1hr: 17min] Synopsis: From the Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, Fawkes tells in four chapters, a fascinating story spanning a thousand years of Western classical music and composers who sought to express in music, the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony and Sonata form, Serial music and relevant musical expressions are explained and musical excerpts from highly praised recordings of recent years, illustrate the narrative. Narrator: Powell played Jesus in Franco Zeffirelliís Jesus of Nazareth, a f...

J ustin, you are doing good work. Your blog adds immense value for the man-on-the-street. Expect some bureaucratic nonsense from some bar-council uptight about advertising limitations and such but for our sakes, please stay the course. I have a question about YouTube and copyright infringement. At what point does Satriani relinquish control of his work! His live performance at Anaheim 2006 is ‘downloadable’ from YouTube not only via Websatch, his YouTube page, but also through accounts of his fans. It is reasonable to assume that it is illegal to take and use what you have not paid for or what you do not have permission from the owner to take. For all intent, it is ‘theft’ - synonymously known as ‘download’ in the digital platform. The video depicts One Robot’s Dream , a track I ‘stole’ via the relevant algorithm in Safari’s Activity Window. Safari is one browser that makes the algorithm route possible but that is another issue. Observe the quality of the video. All tracks ...

Thomas B.L. Kerk is described here as a ‘corporate lawyer’ and ‘art connoisseur’ and an ‘idealist’ in this brief. I refuse to dim the focus. I simply know him as a friend who brings humanity to the door; everything else about him is commentary. He arrives with the simplest of objectives. On the eve of Christmas, he prematurely exited a function and graced my home with 4 pints and a thumb drive. The unconventional gift bore images of people, consensual, honest and real as there are. Quite unlike those who foist self-serving imagery and travelogues, Kerk transports the human spirit. He deftly sets aside the messenger and highlights the message. I thought I share a little teaser, mindful the limits of the visual do not bear out the depth of the lens; Kerk’s Lens, as the commentary is aptly titled. Audio: To The One Who Knows (Yanni) ©

The slides depict some of them and I am especially proud of the Cannondales. I purchased the (black) SV3000 in 1994 and the (red) SV4000 in 1996. As a tribute to Joe Montgomery (if you are reading this), they are stacked on Minouras and glow in the dark with little spotlights trained on them. “Joe, both Cannondales are still regular on the trails though the single cranked Rockwell replica is not helpful uphill, but clipped on the DX, I manage” The DeltaV and FoxR are great on the SV3 and I have no complaints on the Moto 120 and Alps 4r on the SV4. My sin with the SV3 is that I upgraded to the 2nd generation XTR. The 1st generation is still with me though and I intend to revert to convention before some die-hard takes me to task. Elaine Wong Kar Yan, a marathoner/triathlete from Hong Kong, figured free-riding the SV3 into her stamina-building program. Inverting the stem and sawing off a replacement seat post, the 'V' accommodates her inseam. The petite athle...

Elementary to most, but scanning artwork at 600 rather than 300 dpi causes Front Row to display grainy covers at Song level, although they are perfect at Album level. At 300 dpi, the covers comes out clear at both levels. Cheers, Tommy

Smart-Update scheduled weekly SuperDuper! in operation When I heard the name, I thought it was cheesy, but because the blogosphere is of praise for this Mac utility, I procured SuperDuper! and cloned a 1TB Western Digital Studio of ‘re-directed’ iTunes data to a 1TB Western Digital Home gifted by my brother Alex, who insisted the library be backed up. ‘Re-directed’ data in a external is void of Coverflows and Metadata, hence I figured cloning, rather than backing up via Time Machine was an expedient, if not the only route to data recovery, given the marriage between raw data in an external and metadata in the internal is unique in the way iTunes is structured. Recently, I accidentally erased the Studio. I fainted when 696 gigabytes vanished before my eyes. It was negligence on my part clicking the icon on Disk Utility when attempting to erase another drive. I never thought I would have to call up the clone for insurance. To address the issue, I re-erased the Studio, re-named...

Step 5. Trash the 'iTunes Music' folder and empty the bin Step 4. Consolidate Library. Step 3 . Change Location to external drive. Step 2 . Copy 3 folders to the external drive. Step 1 . Erase external to Mac OS Journaled on a GUID Partition Re-posted on The Star (Citizen's Blog) Managing a large cache of iTunes data within the internal hard-drive of my Mac had always been an awkward game of musical chairs , given I had more data than the drive could hold. By musical chairs I mean, when I have finished with a batch of movies, I would take them out of the ‘almost full’ internal drive and import the next ‘unwatched’ batch. Then I came across a tutorial on ‘Re-directing iTunes to an external’ by Michael Manna of T4 Productions. The guru is crisp, clipped and to the point. End result - I have almost 1000G of Movies, Music, Podcasts and Audio-Books on...