Copper


Issue 81

Issue 81Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #81! This is being written on the first day of Spring. Here in Colorado we view such markers with skepticism, especially when last week saw the massive "bomb cyclone"...

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Credit? What's Next---Money??

Issue 81THE AUDIO CYNIC

Last issue’s Audio Cynic discussed the ongoing battle to gain musicians and composers reasonable payment for the use of the work, primarily by streaming services. For every step forward in that battle—like...

Violin Plus One

Issue 81TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

Or two, or six. There’s no end to what you can do, and with whom. Today we check out recent releases that feature at least one violin up front. Beethoven wrote...

Laura

Issue 81MUSIC'AL NOTES

Years ago my daughter, wife, and I took a trip to Cabo San Lucas–a resort town in Mexico, and a tourist’s nightmare. At every turn, hordes of people assault you,...

Monty Python's 3rd Symphony

Issue 81QUIBBLES AND BITS

“He’s done something no other composer has attempted. He’s placed himself at the center of his work. He gives us a glimpse into his soul. I expect that’s why it’s...

June Millington, Part 3

Issue 81THE COPPER INTERVIEW

J.S.: At AES NYC recently, Waves Audio had a panel discussion featuring Chris Lord-Alge, Jack Joseph Puig and Tony Maserati. Their overall message to the audience was that they wanted...

Sean Costello

Issue 81MUSIC TO MY EARS

At times in everyone’s life someone comes along that thoroughly pisses you off. Think of the night Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend, along with a few other guys like John...

The Qobuz Diaries

AND OTHER ILLNESSESAUDIOIssue 81MUSIC

I spent a week, since the last issue, in the hospital. (Don’t ask! I’ll tell soon enough.) This is the second week in just over a month that I’ve had...

Why Can't America Produce a Great Rock Band? (t...

Issue 81TWISTED SYSTEMS

One afternoon, while I was writing a Beatles article for Goldmine magazine, I started to ponder the issue of the world’s most important and influential rock bands. These are the bands that...

Jefferson Airplane

Issue 81OFF THE CHARTS

When Marty Balin turned a San Francisco pizza joint into a music club, he was just hoping to have a place to play folk rock with friends as inspired by...

Lee Morgan: Eight Great Tracks

Issue 81TRADING EIGHTS

[FYI: from Columbia University’s Jazz Glossary—yes, there is such a thing: “Also ‘trading fours,’ etc. Soloists taking turns at improvising, playing for eight (or four, etc.) bars at a time.” I’d...

Van Cliburn

Issue 81FEATURED

In 1958, the Soviet Union announced its “First International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition”. The idea was to showcase that, in addition to being superior to the west in technology and military...