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Falling Into Showtime

Issue 68Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #68! By the time you read this, the first day of Fall will have passed---and we're approaching Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, closely followed by (yikes!) the Toronto Audio Fest,...

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Krell Returns

Issue 68INDUSTRY NEWS

The title of the article is mildly misleading: strictly speaking, Krell never went away. Earlier this year, however, a lot of murmurring in the audio underground indicated that the company...

CEDIA 2018

Issue 68FEATURED

San Diego is famous as a nice place to live, mostly because of its weather.  Recently, it’s become more crowded than LA, so it’s far less nice than it used...

Schubert Symphonies

Issue 68SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

The past 12 months have seen the release of several important new recordings of Schubert symphonies, two of which are part of series of all nine (yeah, I’m counting that...

The Boys Are Back in Town

Issue 68HAND PICKED

If you have ever been to Dublin, Ireland, then you know that Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy casts a long shadow over the city. There is a statue in his...

R.E.M.

Issue 68OFF THE CHARTS

On October 19, 2018, Craft Recordings will release the box set R.E.M. at the BBC, available in both 8-CD and 2-CD versions, each with one DVD. Most of the tracks are...

50 Ways to Read a Record Part 4

Issue 68VINTAGE WHINE

In our last installment, we looked at the range of record groove sizes that were used through the years, and we jumped ahead a bit to the launch of Stereo. In...

Cairns

Issue 68MUSIC'AL NOTES

As a child growing up in Glasgow, Scotland, I was, from an early age, an avid reader. At one point (maybe I was 8 or 9 years old) I started...

While My Guitars Gently Sleep

Issue 68TWISTED SYSTEMS

Early on in my writing for Copper a few readers asked me to write about my influences. I understood that to be about the guitar players/bands that inspired me.There is,...

John Corigliano: Symphony No. 1

Issue 68QUIBBLES AND BITS

In the world of classical music, you typically need to die before your music gets taken too seriously.  Kind of a bummer from a career-building perspective.  So many major classical...

The Tuesday Night Music Club, Redux

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 68MUSIC

[Our friend, regular Copper columnist and resident right-handed bass player Dan Schwartz has had to undergo surgery to repair a broken right arm—and so we’re re-running a classic Schwartz column from Copper#15.  We...

Snobs and Slobs

Issue 68TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Here’s a (lightly edited) exchange that took place right after I sent in my “Steve Jobs: the Opera” copy to our Esteemed Editor: Leebs: Wasn’t Nixon in China weird enough? LS: Musically Nixon in China was...

When Sharing Isn't Caring

Issue 68THE AUDIO CYNIC

It is probably evident at this stage of our relationship—and yes, contrary to my curmudgeonly nature, I perversely feel that writer and reader actually have a relationship—that I am wary...