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My favourite author or book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Robert M Pirsig’s treatise on being broken and obsessive, while at the same time explaining why quality is the only value we
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My favourite author or book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Robert M Pirsig’s treatise on being broken and obsessive, while at the same time explaining why quality is the only value we
Neil Peart, Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson Sun, Apr 4, 2021 Fri, Jan 15, 2021@10:28AM | comments The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) will be hosting a Virtual Gala Concert next month in support of the VSO and the VSO School of Music. Rush's Geddy Lee, Itzhak Perlman, K.D. Lang and many others will be taking part in the event. The Show Must Go On: Stories of Resilience will be streamed via TheConcertHall.ca on February 18 at 6:30 PM. From CreateAStir.ca: ... Hosted by vocalist and past VSO soloist Steve Maddock, it features songs and inside stories (about everything from missed flights to cancel...
A look back at the stories behind all 19 Rush studio album covers.
Jess Walter, left, and Emma Noyes Let's be clear: 2020 absolutely sucked. For pretty much everyone. (I gather Jeff Bezos and some other billionaires did just fine, but I digress.) And it especially sucked for the arts community, a world that operates on a shoestring even during the best of times. We're obviously not close to the best of times, or even so-so times. The national response to the pandemic when it comes to arts organizations, artists and businesses dedicated to the things that make life worth living — concert halls, theaters, ...
This was the first of the prog-rock band's many LPs — including the very literal art for Moving Pictures — designed around visual puns. Longtime art director Hugh Syme filled the image with maximum varieties of "waves," tapping into fashion, weather and politics. But the original, ultimately abandoned concept was less playful and more highbrow. "At one point, I said we should bring in medical technicians with electroencephalogram equipment and tape the sensors onto the temples of each band member while they record a given passage of music," Syme tells UCR. "[We] could isolate the brai...