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'EXCLUSIVE: Classicalite Q&A with Guitarist and Composer Emanuele Torrente

Emanuele Torrente has a musical mind, at least that's the way he likes describe it. The Italian born classical guitarist has very definite ideas where about where music is going and where he feels it should be going. An accomplished musician as well as composer and musical theorist, Maestro Torrente has a new album Musical Mind, which you can download from his site. Classicalite caught up with him to talk about the album and music in general.
By Thomas Swan

  • 'NPR Exhibit Chronicles Denise Burt's Album Cover Art Contributions

    A strange challenge behind album cover artists and graphic designers like Denise Burt is to capture (or at least pique curiosity in) one artistic medium through the use of another---one which the former was designed to be mostly independent from. While those with synesthesia might argue that the two are hardly mutually exclusive items, visual art can often belie the very nature of music itself.
    By Steve Nagel

  • 'REVIEW: Laszlo Gardony Lives 'Life In Real Time' with Hot Sextet

    Laszlo Gardony has raised his own bar by adding three saxophones to his existing trio for 'Life In Real Time,' his first sextet session. This has resulted in a party so intense, you just have to step back and marvel when silence greets you at CD’s end.
    By Mike Greenblatt
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