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This page is for major events and other topics related to the year in classical music. List published by Musical America []. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
New Sounds
Eric Clapton had nearly reached the end of his set at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night before any real sense of urgency took hold. He responded with a jolt, and for a moment, the stone-faced Mr. Clapton appeared to have given himself over to chance. Then, as with all his other blues solos that night, it ended just as it had seemed to get going. Clapton had come out of pseudo-retirement for this show , the first in a two-night run at the Garden and his first concert in the United States since a couple of 70th-birthday shows in He will play two concerts at the Forum in Los Angeles this weekend, then head back home to England. The pieces were rendered tightly, especially the blues. His solos — you know the type: clean licks with a tapered swing feel; bent notes never spilling too far into the next bar — rarely lasted longer than a minute. The group featured an organist and an electric-keyboard player, but no second guitar, which meant that there was no one to obstruct Mr. Where he did allow some tension into the proceedings, he reaped rewards.
Quoted by critics "Once in a life-time concerts", the series always has a jam-packed audience. The EPC series has presented more than sixty piano concertos since , widely ranged from J. Bach to the premieres of commissioned works by living composers.