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Does Italian Tenor Andrea Bocelli Really Deserve the Billboard Latin Music Award for Lifetime Achievement?
Get Spektral Quartet’s “Mobile Miniatures” for Your Phone: Release Party to Feature New Music Ringtones by Nico Muhly, David Lang, Shulamit Ran and Others
Last fall, the Spektral Quartet commissioned more than 40 contemporary composers to create mini new-music masterpieces to serve as ringtones and alerts on mobile devices. The Quartet will present them all at its "Mobile Miniatures" release party in Chicago at Constellation on Saturday, March 29 at 8:30 p.m. Don't Let Your Babies Be Gay Cowboys: Listen to the Blues of Pat Haggerty's LGBTQA Collection, 'Lavender Country'
Openly gay country 'n' western stars like ABC Nashville's "Will Lexington" have it easy compared to the 1973 LP Lavender Country. Yup, the dichotomy of hetero vs. homo was broken down in the most unusual--and conservative--of music genres.
