Copper


Issue 82

Issue 82Opening Salvo

Welcome to Copper #82! I've never been good with ambivalence. The song quoted in the title above: does it mean that it's not spring, but just kinda sorta looks like it?...

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Handel Arias

Issue 82SOMETHING OLD / SOMETHING NEW

In 1706, at the age of 21, Handel made the best of all possible contacts: the Medici family, who had massive amounts of money that they loved to spend on...

Al Green

Issue 82OFF THE CHARTS

Al Green loved Elvis Presley as much as he loved Mahalia Jackson. His vocal showmanship paired with the faith that grounds his singing is all the evidence you need. He...

Great Opera

Issue 82QUIBBLES AND BITS

Here’s what I wrote back in Copper 72: “Many people can’t stand opera, and to be fair, you can see where they’re coming from. Hour after hour of tedious recitative, all in...

It Might As Well Be Spring

Issue 82

Welcome to Copper #82! I've never been good with ambivalence. The song quoted in the title above: does it mean that it's not spring, but just kinda sorta looks like it?...

Great Artists Dilemma

Issue 82TWISTED SYSTEMS

As much as my Springsteen article caused an outpouring of comments, I was impressed by the numbers and passions of the comments on my “Why Can’t America produce a Great...

A Familiar Story

Issue 82THE AUDIO CYNIC

This story has nothing to do with audio. It does, however, have a lot to do with the “Cynic” part of this column’s title. I’ve encouraged Copper‘s writers to go somewhat...

Fairchild: Sidebar

Issue 82VINTAGE WHINE

As I indicated in my first installment on Fairchild, back in Copper # 75, part of the enjoyment of researching these articles is ending up somewhere completely unexpected. As the series of articles went...

Sofar

Issue 82FEATURED

I recently stumbled across an article naming the 30 best albums of 1969, an auspicious year for popular music if ever one was. How auspicious? Janis Joplin appears on the list...

Montréal Audio Fest

Issue 82FEATURED

The 2019 edition of the Montréal Audio Fest took place over the weekend of March 22-25th, and, since I reported on last year’s event, I thought I might trot out...

Real Religious Fervor

Issue 82MUSIC AUDIO AND OTHER ILLNESSES

Real religious fervor: what do I mean by using that term, when I’m writing about music? Nominally, I suppose one could take it to mean anything that I like. But...

Eine kleine zuviele Nachtmusik

Issue 82TOO MUCH TCHAIKOVSKY

This is about Mahler and his Seventh Symphony. Which means, I guess, that it’s about everything. More than anyone else, Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) set out to depict huge chunks of the universe...

Leslie Ann Jones, Part 1

Issue 82THE COPPER INTERVIEW

While there are engineers who have become celebrities in their own music specialty fields, there are some old-school-trained engineers who are able to handle any kind of audio demand, from...

New York Stories

Issue 82MUSIC'AL NOTES

Party. New York in the late seventies was run-down, crime-ridden, and affordable. We lived in the village; as many businesses had failed, people could rent one of the abundant industrial...