October 28th, 2008 |
by Kate Robinson |
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For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, MTV Music has put their entire collection of music videos online. You can watch anything from New Order’s Blue Monday to Danzig’s Mother. For those of us who grew up in the 80s and 90s its like heaven.
October 22nd, 2008 |
by Kate Robinson |
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My husband and I continued our journey into the world of classical music by going to the fall ballet, Ballets of Our Time, performed by the IU Ballet Theater. It was the first ballet for both of us, if you don’t count the ballet recitals I had to preform in when I was 8, and [...]
October 19th, 2008 |
by Kate Robinson |
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A few weeks ago, in our continuing quest to broaden our horizons, my husband I went to the opera. We saw La Traviata, part of the 2008/2009 IU Opera season. The performance was quite good–quality singing, beautiful music, sumptuous sets and costumes. And as it turns out, La Traviata is the opera in Pretty Women, [...]
October 9th, 2008 |
by Kate Robinson |
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Uncategorized, art
I’m not typically a huge fan of Banksy, but I think this latest work of his is both incredibly interesting and very fun. Here’s what Bansky had to say about his newest exhibit. “New Yorkers don’t care about art, they care about pets. So I’m exhibiting them instead. I wanted to make art that questioned [...]
October 3rd, 2008 |
by Kate Robinson |
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music
This past week I listened to Schubert’s Symphony #9. Overall it was a fine piece of music, but I not one that I could get too excited about. To me it seemed like a very traditional work of classical music. To experts it may not be that at all, but to the untrained ear it [...]