bicycling & self-propelled, self-reliant transport / screwing with The Man / world music (especially Brazilian, Cuban, African) - jazz, swing - classical - bluegrass, vintage blues - prog, indie rock - reggae, lots more / growing food, eating organic / old and foreign movies / reading (history and old novels mostly) / exploring / takin' pictures / arguing with conservatives / NOT watching TV / wine and cheese / music blogs / UFOs and weirdness / writing; poetry / raisin' kids / my cats / freethinking / My scope of interest is wide: I can appreciate everything from Shakespeare to Howard Stern; from Ingmar Bergman to Godzilla. Spectator sports are a complete waste of time, and I won't drag anyone to them, or ever watch the Super Bowl. Ok, I'd go watch Tiger Woods golf, but that's about it. I love outdoor activity of all kinds, keeps me fit. I'd
really like to take up rock climbing, but not too extreme. I'm a straight guy who nonetheless enjoys listening to women torch and jazz singers and watching film musicals. I like real places like mountains, beaches, forests, and cities, not fake and dead places like amusement parks or corporate stores. I do love old-style art and natural history museums, but not the newer "McMuseums" aimed at being funhouses for kids. Most fun of all is sharing all these good things with special people. Please visit my fairly popular blog called Gravy Bread. Most of my blog's traffic is generated by its sub-site, the Mega Super Mammoth MP3 Blog List, which links to thousands of truly free MP3 music blogs and sites.
Music
Elis Regina of Brazil (deceased) is my favorite singer, period. Brazilian, Cuban, Latin and African music have dominated my taste in the last 10 years. (Some Brazilian faves are Baden Powell, Gal Costa, Toninho Horta, Joao Gilberto, Joao Donato, Nara Leao, Beth Carvalho, Djavan, Simone, Joyce, Alcione, Elza Soares, Rosa Passos, Moacir Santos, Novos Baianos, Marcos Valle, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Luiz Gonzaga Jr & Sr., Carlos Lyra, Ed Motta, Tuca, Clara Nunes, Flora Purim) / JAZZ: Thelonious Monk & Duke Ellington are my jazz gods (so are Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery & McCoy Tyner). And Coltrane too before he got too dissonant. Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Beny More are some of my Hispanic/Latin music gods. I love old historical classical recordings and eccentric conductors. My fave works are by Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius (esp. the Violin Concerto), Mahler, Debussy, Ravel (esp. "Daphnis et Chloe"), Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, Stravinsky, Bartok, Berlioz, and more. Some opera favorites are Strauss' "Elektra," Wagner's "Gotterdammerung," Puccini's "Tosca," Berlioz' "Les Troyens," others. I like much progressive and indie rock, all kinds of fusions. Love vintage women torch, ballad & jazz singers of the '30s - '50s such as Greta Keller, Connee Boswell, Annette Hanshaw, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Julie London, etc... Sinatra and the Rat Pack, of course. Some lounge and cheese. Serge Gainsbourg. All kinds of down and dirty blues and bluegrass. Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Wilkins, T-Bone Walker, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker; Bill Monroe, Stanley Bros., Del McCoury, Doc Watson, Johnny Cash, John Fahey, etc... Also retro soul, Marvin Gaye, etc, and '70s funk. And reggae, fado, cumbia. About the only thing I don't like is contemporary commercial pop music. I like rock (was raised on it) but have grown tired of a lot of it and want to explore other musical worlds, though there are a lot of oldish art rock and electronic bands/acts/artists that I can enjoy most any time, eg., Stereolab, Flaming Lips, Radiohead, The Wolfhounds, Bjork, Slint (Louisville's own), etc. Every once in awhile I dig on some newish artists such as Regina Spektor and Amy Winehouse. Also classic singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. Some '80s-90s soft rock such as Dream Academy, Natalie Merchant, Kate Bush, too. Will always love The Rolling Stones' "Beggar's Banquet" and the Beatles' "Abbey Road." The Sex Pistols' "Never Mind the Bollocks..." and the Velvet Underground's "White Light, White Heat" are great too. Some artistic New Age like Kevin Braheny and Constance Demby are also good. My tastes are reflected in a CD collection so vast and diverse that I can't even hint at doing it justice. When it comes to live shows, I can enjoy just about everything. I do adore that retro snarky conundrum, Nellie McKay.
This is the eternal and supreme Brazilian artist Elis Regina in 1973 performances of "Meio de campo" and the sublime "Atras da Porta"; which is available on an imported Brazilian DVD that I own, of course. I hope these clips provide some small clue as to why Elis Regina is my all-time favorite singer. You needn't understand one word of Portuguese to know what Elis means. The third clip (also on a DVD I have), a color performance from a 1980 TV special, also of "Atras da Porta," shows us the full emotion of a true musical artist. What singer of our time is demonstrably capable of living and feeling a song like this? Any?
Movies
Some of the greatest: The Passion of Joan of Arc / The Red Shoes / All Quiet on the Western Front / The Silence (Bergman) / Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) / Eyes Wide Shut / The Seven Samurai / His Girl Friday / Duck Soup / Apocalypse Now (not that shitty Redux, though) / The Exterminating Angel / The Battle of Chile / Les Demoiselles de Rochefort; and about 10,000 others. Luis Bunuel is my favorite director; I vibrate to his skewed, corrosive, dark satirical sense of anti-bourgeoisie humor. Love Pre-Code movies and 1930s-'40s screwball comedies; they're the best ever. Love '80s and '90s Hong Kong action flicks; incredible genre mixing & matching with a guerilla filmmaking sensibility in a commercial framework. '70s car chase classics, eg. The Driver and Vanishing Point. I admire the gritty realism and maturity of the best of '70s cinema. Also enjoy watching Godzilla and friends tear up Tokyo. Like some camp and exploitation and Russ Meyer. Also cinema verite documentaries. I even enjoy silent movies - especially ones made from 1925 to 1929; they are visually stunning; the best of them (such as "Pandora's Box," Eisenstein's "October" and Keaton's "The General," Lloyd's "For Heaven's Sake," Abram Room's "Bed and Sofa," and Dreyer's "...Joan of Arc") are still among the greatest ever made, as are the comedies of Keaton, Lloyd and Chaplin. Sadao Yamanaka's 1937 Japanese film, "Humanity and Paper Balloons" is the greatest film you've never seen. I like a wide spectrum of guy flicks and chick flicks, especially musicals — just as long as they are GOOD movies. Indie movies from roughly 1989 to 1995 are excellent. "Pulp Fiction" is a great film but it helped kill indies, in my opinion. I like the movies of the 1990s, a very good decade, but the 2000s kinda suck, with all the comic book super-hero movies I don't care about. Terrence Malick's "The New World" was the most beautiful, moving and authentic film experience for me in this decade. The best movies ever made were made in Europe and Japan in the 1950s and 1960s and in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s. Plus, you really haven't lived until you've seen "Tarzan's New York Adventure" (1942).
This scene from Walter Hill's 1978 action-noir masterpiece, The Driver — beautifully shot at night in LA – contains no computerized effects and proves that CGI is bullshit.OK, since I mentioned it above, here's a taste of the badassedness that is Tarzan's New York Adventure – at least as much as can be gleaned of it from this vintage trailer. Now, THIS is entertainment - so, fuck off, Spiderman!Two men and a hat. Jerry Lewis’ 1961 candy-colored comedy opus, The Ladies Man is a hit-and-miss affair as its gags go, but is nonetheless a masterwork, an unmistakable auteurist work. Frank Tashlin’s influence looms large over it, manifest in its absurdist cartoon sensibility. This scene though, gets at what Lewis does best: simple pantomime. Buffs instantly know what is meant by “the hat scene”---without further elaboration. This is that scene, two men at their comedic best, Lewis and an obscure character actor named Buddy Lester. Like the gangsters in the Marx Brothers’ Monkey Business of 1931, Lester’s bellowing gangster bluster is tempered by sheer incredulity. The hat is ruined from the get-go, but its attempt at repair by Lewis inspires Lester’s masterly comic performance, one of the finest in films. Lewis strains mightily to hold his snickering, but fails. To his credit he left them in, realizing that Lester’s controlled slow-burn was too perfect to retake. More memorable than $500 million of special effects, this.Knowing the audacity of saying so, I declare that Jacques Demy's 1967 French musical flop, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort) is the greatest of all film musicals. How can I say this? The choreographic conception and execution are second-rate, nowhere near what Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Bob Fosse were doing at MGM in the 1950s. And yet, this film is the freest of all movie musicals. The plot, which seems simple at first, is incredibly intricate on further viewing - characters destined to meet continually pass each other by. These logistics, Michelle Legrand's lovely and lively jazz-tinged score, Demy's mastery of sweeping crane shots, the film's complex use of pastel colors, the inclusion of Gene Kelly and the unencumbered feeling of the whole thing as it sweeps along is unmatched in the musical cinema. This clip is a scene of parting, commemorated with a last dance. There are departures in the film, but more importantly, meetings. The circle grows ever tighter as would-be lovers approach their destinies. I love this particular number for its simplicity, exuberance, and those spangled gold and silver butt-squeezing tight duds those girls are wearing.Unless you frequented scuzzy downtown grindhouses in the early 1980s you wouldn't have encountered Gary Sherman's oozingly grimy 1982 B-action noir, Vice Squad. But it gained a second life, like so many obscure and bad 1980s films, on cable and video. But this film, despite low-caliber credentials and budget, is not bad. Indeed, it's something of a minor masterpiece, even if it still seems to be unknown to cinephiles. Part of my mission on this Earth is to champion this movie, which was the '80s equivalent to the B-pictures of old, just with the sleaze factor anted up by a power of ten. Part of what makes it so good is the nighttime cinematography of John Alcott, yes, that John Alcott, the one who did Kubrick movies. This trailer should give you a nice taste of the foul world depicted in the film. Those who revel in screen villainy will do so when confronted by the brutal pimp, portrayed herein by Wings Hauser.
Television
(mostly old stuff)
Northern Exposure, the ultimate liberal communal fantasy /
The Prisoner, the 1967 British masterpiece / Monty Python's Flying Circus / The Honeymooners (still the standard to beat) / Fawlty Towers / Kolchak: The Night Stalker (the '70s one) / The Avengers (the Emma Peel episodes) / Family Guy (the only current commercial show I watch, and the funniest) /
Star Trek (series I, II, III) / Cosmos (Carl Sagan) / The Twilight Zone / Frontline; American Experience; Nature; History Detectives; Antiques Roadshow (PBS docs, etc.) / Green Acres (agricultural surrealism) / Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii ("live by satellite"!) / The episode of the Andy Griffith Show where Opie shot the bird (so friggin' sad!) / The Gong Show ('70s)(hell yeah!).
TV moments
This is one of my great heroes, the late astronomer Carl Sagan. The man was ubiquitous in the popular media in a way that no scientist has been since. Part of the reason was his ability to relate scientific concepts in graspable prose; part was also due to his precise and unmistakable voice; and part was his earnestness, expressed almost with the dreaminess of a poet. And, admittedly, part was that he looked good on TV---a nerd who women could swoon over. Here he introduces the first part of his masterly 1980 PBS mini-series Cosmos. This is one of my favorite shows ever, a sweeping rumination on the universe and our place in it, and an urge for us to stop the madness that threatens our planet, and us.
This great grey eminence will be unknown to most of you, because he went off the air in 1977, the same year as Elvis died. But for the entirety of my childhood this fellow, Eric Sevareid (pronounced, SeverRIDE), entranced me as he closed the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. In World War II he was one of Murrow’s Boys, the CBS reporters working under Edward R. Murrow’s tutelage. He was on the air for decades. I never understood one word the man was saying, but his surety, that voice, its unemotional delivery, those big words and complex sentences, the air of something important and great in all of it, and that commanding chiseled face, bespeaking vast experience, all kept me transfixed. Now that I’m old enough to understand what he was saying, he is long gone. This was his farewell to the airwaves, a prophetic essay on the responsibilities of journalism and a warning about the dangers to democracy when its news and listeners become partisan, as they, alas, have become. Listen closely to it and learn.
Books
Don Quixote (Cervantes) / Beowulf (Heaney translation) / Huckleberry Finn; Life on the Mississippi (Twain) / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (HST) / Great Expectations (Dickens) / Of Human Bondage (Maugham) / The Jungle (Sinclair) / Animal Farm (Orwell) / Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut) / Enemy at the Gates (William Craig) / Film as a Subversive Art (Vogel) / The Quiet American (Graham Greene), tons more. Among my reading feats, I made it through War & Peace (Tolstoy), Les Miserables (Hugo), and Das Kapital (Marx & Engels). Riding the bus does wonders for your reading. See my book page @ Goodreads.com
Heroes
[If you don't know who these people are, you should; their work is worth knowing.]
Dennis Kucinich (the only member of Congress doing his Constitutional duty), Michael Moore, Alex Jones, Emmett Fields (atheist), Noam Chomsky, Jim Hightower, Larry Kramer, Amy Goodman, Seymour Hersh, David Korten, Carl Sagan, Jacques Cousteau, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Shinichi Suzuki, Russell Means, Chief Crazy Horse, H.L. Mencken, W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx, Edward R. Murrow, Shakespeare, Socrates, Gandhi, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Ludwig van Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Gustav Mahler, Oscar Levant, Leopold Stokowski, George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Jean Sibelius, Johannes Brahms, Carl Nielsen, Joni Mitchell, J.M.W. Turner, Edvard Munch, Karl Marx, Nellie Bly, Lincoln Steffens, Eugene V. Debbs, Mother Jones, Rachel Carson, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Chiapas, Mexico), the Hollywood Ten, Vance Packard, St. Vincent de Paul, Rachel Corrie, Cindy Sheehan, Luis Bunuel, Satjayit Ray, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Jean Renoir, Vittorio de Sica, Anne Sullivan, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, Emma Goldman, Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Du Bois, Emile Zola, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Graham Greene, Dorothy Parker, I.F. Stone, Dr. Seuss, George Orwell, Eric Schlosser, Margaret Sanger, Karen Silkwood, Dr. Thomas Mancuso, Molly Ivins, Rembrandt, Noel Coward, Martin Luther (of the Protestant reformation), Nelson Mandela, Robert Benchley, Fred Allen (humorist), Will Rogers, Ben Hecht, Preston Sturges, George S. Kaufman, S.J. Perelman, Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, Humphrey Bogart, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Beny More, Buster Keaton, George Carlin, John Waters, Howard Stern, Art Buchwald, Robert Klein, Steve Earle, Frederick Wiseman, John Muir, Ansel Adams, Jackie Robinson, Upton Sinclair, Victor Jara, Salvador Allende, Gerrard Winstanley, Arundhati Roy, Wafa Sultan, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Robert La Follette, Walther Rathenau, Isadora Duncan, Mae West, Otto Dix, Piet Mondrian, Georgia O'Keeffe, Diego Rivera, Galileo, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Magnus Hirschfeld (sexual revolutionary), George Grosz, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Antonio Gaudi, Greta Keller, Franz Kafka, Dirk Bogarde, James Mason, Vincent Price, Tony Randall, Anton Walbrook, Jean Gabin, Peter Ustinov, Diana Rigg, the Monty Python troupe, Howard Hawks, Richard Linklater, Dick Cavett, Rod Serling, Eric Sevareid, Jonathan Winters, Chuck Jones, Joseph Losey, Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, Louise Brooks, Carole Lombard, Jean Arthur, Elis Regina, Tom Jobim, Connee Boswell, Toninho Horta, Pete Seeger, Quentin Crisp, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Russ Meyer, Bruce Lee, Kurt Vonnegut, Bertrand Russell, Heywood Broun, W. Somerset Maugham, Richard Wright, Yehudi Menuhin, Hermann Scherchen, Charles Munch, Sergiu Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Patricio Guzman, Peter Matthiessen, Andrzej Wajda, Jacques Brel, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Michael Powell (director), Frank Capra, Frank Borzage, John Barrymore, Al Jolson (a great entertainer who is misunderstood today), Benjamin Franklin, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, Wendell Berry, Sean Penn, Robert Morley, Anthony Zerbe, the Nicholas Brothers, Bob Flanagan "Super Masochist," James W. Arnold (my college film prof.), Cheeta (still alive!; plus, who do you think serviced Jane when Tarzan wasn't around? ), Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, Godzilla, Ultraman, the pre-Code Betty Boop, Leeroy Jenkins, Brian the Dog on 'Family Guy', Emlyn Williams and every other actor who's ever played Caligula, those guys who can rock climb with their fingers, anybody who has ever tap-danced on film, anybody on the front lines feeding the hungry. Greenpeace activists and anyone else helping to stop the madness. I also admire flawed mavericks such as Orson Welles, D.W. Griffith and Frank Lloyd Wright. Oh, and I almost forgot, Junior Samples.
Junior Samples doing his thing on "Hee Haw." No, this is not great comedy, but you gotta love a guy with no talent and an elementary school education who was plucked clean from backwoods obscurity in middle age and catapulted to national stardom, carted off to Nashville a few weeks a year to read cue cards and look into a camera, paid a nice check and sent back to his Georgia farm where he spent the rest of the year fishing, eating fatty foods, and doing God knows what to farm animals. Remember, the number to call is BR-549. All righty, I can't let you leave without sharing this infamous moment of succulent '70s salaciousness from "The Gong Show" — one of the funniest, most raucous and transgressive/subversive shows ever. [fidgety MySpace wouldn't let me put the Youtube code in the TV box above, so instead I highlight the so-called "Popsicle Twins" here in the heroes category, but hey, these gals could be considered heroes, of a sort.] Incredibly, this "act" was not gonged, Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr having absented themselves from the vicinity. But how could Phyllis Diller, who at the time was hawking big girthy processed cucumbers on TV for the now-defunct Paramount Pickle Co. of Louisville, Ky., have the gall to give this phallic duo a zed? Anyway watch and learn, girls.
People Who SUCK!
Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Albert Fish, Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Tom Delay, Alberto Gonzales, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Rush Limpballs, Anne Coulter, Pol Pot, Pat Robertson, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, John Yoo, Bill Frist, Ted Stevens, O.J. Simpson, Jerry Falwell, the "Rev." Fred Phelps of "God Hates Fags" fame, Ralph Cirella on the Howard Stern Show (just an annoying prick), Jack Welch and most other corporate CEOs, Nicolae Ceaucescu; all neocon fascists and elitists who force upon us the regressive, barbaric, militaristic, blindly patriotic, greed-obsessed, intolerant and ignorant dog-eat-dog model of running the world.
Schools
I am a graduate of the College of Journalism (a now-defunct program) of the venerable Jesuit institution of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This happened back in the mists of time, the 1980s, a time of bad music and big hair.
GROUPS [for some reason my groups aren’t showing up, so I’m manually coding this list into the column.]
Foundation for the Continued Survival of the Bad Motherfucker
Akira Kurosawa
Louisville Bike Mafia
I<3 Gustav Mahler
Thelonious Monk
Chico Buarque
Bogart
Japanophiles
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
George Bush is ruining America
Classic Cinema Appreciation and Recognition
B.U.S.H.=Big Ugly Shit Head
The Avengers Are Cooler Than All The Stupid Shit On TV Nowadays
louisville
Myspace Liberals
Musica Brasileira
Freethinkers United
The Saganites
Worst President Ever
The Impeach Bush Club
Richard Linklater
Sam Kinison
Classic Hollywood
The Genius of Ingmar Bergman
El (The Strange Passion of Luis Bunuel)
Green Acres
Stewie's Minions
Family Guy
The Roaring 20's
Organic Gardening
Gardening enthusiasts
LOUISVILLE
H. L. Mencken
Chomsky readers
Fuck Bush!
Northern Exposure
The Prisoner
J'Adore Serge Gainsbourg
I love Brazil
The Cult of Anton Bruckner
Orson Welles
The Ultraman Fan Club
The Omega Man
Anarchism
Existentialists, Absurdists, Nihlists UNITE
Humans Against the New World Order
American Indian Movement
AIM (American Indian Movement)
I Support Equality
Re-Legalize It
Worldwide Peace Movement
Separation of church and state
***K***'s Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Serious Relationships, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Louisville, KY
Body type:
Athletic
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Agnostic
Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio
Smoke / Drink:
No / Yes
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
College graduate
Occupation:
writer, editor, urban myth-spinner
Income:
$45,000 to $60,000
***K***'s Schools
Marquette University
Milwaukee,WI
Graduated: 1984
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Journalism
Minor: Film Studies
Clubs: Marquette Tribune (newspaper/ reporter and critic)
About me: 155 lbs., trim, healthy, straight. I write and edit magazines and other promotional materials and have won more than 40 awards for editorial excellence. I straddle the line between the new and the old but often feel I was born in the wrong time. I am intensely and passionately romantic, and everything that the horoscope says about Scorpios is probably true about me.
Who I'd like to meet: Maybe you. I am quick to befriend; take a chance; we both might learn something.
A Tribute to Lenny (Leonard Bernstein)
These clips show the incredible talent, passion and versatility of Leonard Bernstein, the quintessential American musical artist; composer, conductor and all-round life-loving guy. Mostly loved, sometimes hated and sometimes insecure about his immense talent, he earned fame conducting symphonies and composing for Broadway, but never achieved a place in the standard concert hall repertoire in the “classical” realm as he so wished (except as a “pops’ composer and for short “serious” works like the lighthearted Candide overture). He was a bisexual, and it is said he went to women for emotional needs and men for sexual ones. That is probably an oversimplification. I saw the man conduct only once, in early 1984, but it was a memorable evening in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, not necessarily for what Lenny did right but for what he did wrong. After conducting the touring Vienna Philharmonic in the vigorous finale of Brahms’ second symphony, Lenny stepped down to the left off the podium, but missed the first step and fell flat on his face, partly displacing the concertmaster’s stand in the process and dropping his baton. He bruised his chest from a gold medallion he wore, but had hurt nothing else but his immense ego. He picked himself up, angrily grabbed his baton from the concertmaster and stalked off. The most remarkable thing about all of this, to me, was the gasp and total silence that came from the applauding audience. I mean the immense communal gasp, and the stopping on a dime of the applause, could not have been more precisely timed by Lenny himself. It was one of the most remarkable things I have ever heard. After all, everyone in the audience suddenly thought we had witnessed Lenny’s death by possible heart attack. It would not have been unexpected. After all the man lived hard, smoke and drank and whored with gusto. Still, when he died in 1990, it was all too soon. The three clips featured here come from an especially lively and inspired 1970s performance of Bernstein conducting and playing the piano with a French orchestra in the spiky, jaunty, modernistic Piano Concerto in g, by Maurice Ravel. Each clip covers each of the work’s three movements. Note not only the crispness of his attack in the opening and closing movements, but the incredible sensitivity in his control of tempo and dynamics in the slow romantic middle movement---something to truly savor. The French, recognizing a masterly performance of their own music when they hear it, erupt in an incredible roar at the end of this. It is a thrilling performance and a tour-de-force for Lenny, demonstrating his ability to lead from the piano while keyboarding a difficult work.
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