From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #254 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Monday, December 9 1996 Volume 01 : Number 254 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: classical Tori rainn benefit Re: rainn benefit ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 02:07:54 -0000 From: chuck n joe Subject: Re: classical Tori Hi all! On Sat, 7 Dec 1996 07:57:00 -0500 (EST) "Donald G. Keller" wrote: >It figures Tori likes to play Bartok; I described the very brief >"Hungarian Wedding Song" as Bartok Lite. Yes definitely a good comparison! In fact some of her more "strident" piano figures (e.g. the intro to "Precious Things" where the left hand comes in with the low bosendorfer-style bass notes) are very reminiscent of Bartok (e.g. "Allegro Barbaro" -the theme Emerson Lake & Palmer used for "The Barbarian", or the last movement of Bartok's second piano concerto...in fact if anyone knows Bartok's "Concerto For Orchestra", just imagine Tori playing a piano version of it!). >I think on the whole, though, that the classical influences on Tori's >music are pretty generalized, and I wouldn't try to get really >specific. For example, the orchestral parts in "Yes, Anastasia" remind me >of something =like= Rachmaninoff (or maybe Tchaikovsky; see what I mean?) Yes exactly! This is why I was having a tough time pinpointing specific classical references in my post last week. Several Tori-philes I've mentioned this to also agree that "eastern-european" is about the best we can do to sum up her classical influences! Chuck n.p. the sound of snow falling outside my window n.r. Charles B. Carlson: "No-Load Stocks: How to buy your First Share Directly from the Company- with No Broker's Fee" The Danbury Modern Folk Music Festival http:www.cris.com/~cjmacs/Folkfest1.html coming 7.20.97 "I'm here with my one companion The road beneath my feet." - -M. Jovovich ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 15:27:26 -0500 From: sister ernestine Subject: rainn benefit thanks to richard handal, who dug this up from the mtv website: >In New York City's fashion district, meanwhile, singer Tori Amos held a >press conference on Wednesday, with clothing designer Calvin Klein to >announce a new fund-raising drive for "RAINN," the "Rape, Abuse, and >Incest National Network," a group that Amos, who's had personal experience >of rape, established in 1994, with help from her label, Atlantic Records. >Amos is hoping to raise a half-million dollars for "RAINN" which operates >a free, confidential, 24-hour hotline for survivors of sexual assault by >staging a January 23rd benefit concert at New York's Madison Square >Garden, for which tickets go on sale Monday, and through sales of a new >Klein-designed T-shirt bearing the words "unlock the silence." The shirts >are on sale now at Klein outlets, at $25 a piece, half of which is being >donated to "RAINN." As for the "RAINN" sexual-abuse hotline, it's toll >free. Call 1-800-656-HOPE. richard also mentioned that the ticket price for the benefit show was $45. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 20:20:48 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Handal Subject: Re: rainn benefit woj said: > thanks to richard handal, who dug this up from the mtv website: That was, in fact, a transcript from the U.S. MTV's Week In Rock news program of this weekend. Be seeing you, Richard Handal, H.G. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #254 *************************************