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Each year, I challenge SouthCoasters to read 100 books in a year to make my BookLovers Century Club. Reading 25-49 books would qualify you for the Quarter-Century Club, and 50-99 books, the Half-Century Club.
Each year, our Club grows. I am one lucky columnist.
Remember: this isn’t a competition. It’s not about the numbers.
This is about the act of reading every day. Of losing yourself in good books and expanding your mind.
If you’re reading every day, it doesn’t matter if you get 25 books or 300…Yes, we have Triple Century Club Members. No, I’m not one. Nowhere near. I read 70 books this year, and am a proud Half Century Club member.
(4 out of 5 stars) Normally the person just being introduced to Copland will think of him as the country boy from out west when they here such works as Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Rodeo. Well this CD of his early music was a big step for composer kind into the 20th century. Much of this music is not what we think of as his cowboy music. The Piano Concerto is very jazzy and catchy. His Theatre Music contains quite a bit of very city like jazz. This was jazz in the concert hall right before Gershwin became famous. Copland kinda broke the ice. The Organ Symphony is incredible. It s amazing how Copland creates such tension in some parts of the first and third movements with a little church sounding music on the organ. The second movie is happy but heavy. The third movement is the heaviest of them all. You can bang your head to the final minute of this song with more passion then you can in Stravinsky s Rite of Spring. The String works are a nice suttle imaginary work that
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