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glenn petry - who has written 4 posts on Ecstatic Living Room.
Born in 1962, grew up on Shelter Island, NY. Graduated from Syracuse University in 1984. Was a member of New York alt band Drunken Boat, then began consulting for classical music promotion. Co-founded music promotion company 21C Media Group in 2000.
Protesting the G20 summit? Why not bring along some of the world’s greatest protest music?
As much as iconic folk and rock musicians like Pete Seeger, Jimi Hendrix , Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Neil Young, Bob Marley, Pearl Jam and many others did to advance music as a means to foment and focus popular dissent, rock musicians of the 1960s did not invent protest music. We will never know who [...]
Continue reading...Ecstatic Meditation: Brahms, take me away!
Friday, April 2, 2010
Listening to great music is often described as a religious experience. Why not take your listening to the next level and make it a real meditation? Whether you believe in a spiritual component, the practice of meditation is universally accepted as a great thing for body, mind and soul. The object of any meditation practice is [...]
Continue reading...Rach Symphony No. 2? Quick, Bring me the Antidote!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
As my best friend and business partner, Albert Imperato, lectured passionately and convincingly on how to love Rachmaninov’s Sympony No. 2 (“don’t think about it, just do it!” he said equating the work to sunsets and chocolate cake, “do you question them?” he added), I remained unconvinced. We had just listened to a great performance [...]
Continue reading...Rameau and Martinis
Thursday, January 7, 2010
It started out almost as a joke when Albert and I were planning to unwind after a day of work with a martini and some music. Albert suggested we listen to an advance recording of the new naïve classique release of conductor and in this case harpsichordist Christophe Rousset playing transcriptions of Rameau’s second opera, [...]
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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