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Randy Houser lightens up on his latest country offering Jan 21st 2013, 22:46 Randy Houser spent the first four years of his recording career — which contained two albums and a pair of hit singles — establishing himself as one of country's burly tough guys. But now, after only one of his three singles from 2010's "They Call Me Cadillac" eked its way into the country Top 40, he's back with "How Country Feels," a buoyant, hook-filled outing that seems to have the Mississippi native angling for Nashville's softer, feel-good center. Read full article >> Goulding, a depth-defying act Jan 21st 2013, 22:38 She's a little bit pop, she's a little bit electro and sometimes she whips out a guitar. So how exactly do you categorize British sensation Ellie Goulding? The answer to that question came Sunday night at a sold-out Fillmore, and it was a resounding "you don't." Her set played like a bumping dance party with some "MTV Unplugged"-style interludes, and, in a logic-defying twist, it worked. Read full article >> Inauguration, the playlist Jan 21st 2013, 21:57 The readers have spoken: on Facebook and Twitter, suggestions came streaming in for music that would be appropriate for performance during the presidential inauguration. Some of the suggestions are jokes (Aerosmith's "Back in the Saddle," Cage's "4'33""), some are intended as commentary (the last movement of Shostakovich's 5th symphony; "Winter" from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"), and some are simply impracticable (I don't think you could get an audience to sit happily through 15 minutes of "Lincoln Portrait" in freezing temperatures, even if you could get an orchestra to play it outdoors). But here is a Spotify playlist with a cornucopia of readers' suggestions about what Obama might have picked — or about what we might hear come 2017. Surely we can do better than Kelly Clarkson. Read full article >> Music and the Presidency, inaugural edition Jan 21st 2013, 16:42 To mark Barack Obama's second inauguration, I wrote a piece in the Post a couple of weeks ago about the quartet that was performed at his first. I attended the 2009 inauguration in order to write about the music, but in the event, I found the quartet the least exciting part of a generally exciting weekend. (I got to cover Aretha that weekend, too.) My experience was muted by the fact that, even though I was in the ticketed seats, I was far away from the performers and not even in sight of one of the video screens. I therefore had no way of telling that the music was pre-recorded, though through common sense alone I should have been able to figure it out. Read full article >> Links: Strong pianists make for great weekend Jan 21st 2013, 16:01 It's a nice weekend when all the critics are genuinely excited about the concerts they saw. I went to the Daniil Trifonov recital. It was amazing. I don't often gush, but I'll remember it for a long time. (I had already been powerfully impressed by him when I heard him with Gergiev and the Mariinsky in October, 2011.) Read full article >>

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