© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-ecn71270 Recent reviews written by member ecn71270 en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_492088757892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - The calendar of the ancient Mayan civilization predicted a great global change to occur on the 21st of December in the year 2012. Not surprisingly, this very date has been the subject of extreme debate amongst scientists and theologians, as we edge... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~492088757892 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:40:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_492088757892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_492069949060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN—The Eagles Perhaps more than any other single band in rock and roll history, even the Beatles, the Eagles have been through some very cataclysmic changes--not unlike the L.A. landscape that gave them their start and their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~492069949060 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:28:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_492069949060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489771011716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - In a decades-long career that has embodied such diverse styles as opera, classical art songs, the Great American Songbook, and Mexican rancheras, it can sometimes be forgotten (as it evidently has with the powers-that-be who run the Rock and Roll Hall of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489771011716 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:18:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489771011716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488793673348?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - Throughout his entire career as both an author of very left-leaning missives and a writer/director of subversive documentaries, Michael Moore has been a friend to many, and an enemy to just as many.  Back in 1989, his film Roger & Me told... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488793673348 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:15:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488793673348?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486335024772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - Knowing As we have seen so often, both in the real world and the reel world, science and religion have a nasty way of colliding with each other, often setting people against one another.  On the one side are those who believe things with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486335024772 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:44:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486335024772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486068817540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - FROM ELVIS IN MEMPHIS (LEGACY EDITION) Following a screening of his NBC-TV special in 1968, Elvis had told the director of that show, Steve Binder, that he would never do another song or a movie that he didn’t believe in.  And after that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486068817540 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:52:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486068817540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486068555396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - HOT BUTTERED SOUL—Isaac Hayes During the second half of the 1960s, Memphis, the birthplace of rockabilly a decade earlier, had become the epicenter for a new and much grittier sound of R&B than the style practiced up in the Motown studios of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486068555396 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:44:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486068555396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486068227716?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - DUSTY IN MEMPHIS (DELUXE EDITION)—Dusty Springfield Of all the female singers to have ever come out of England, especially with the British Invasion of 1964, Dusty Springfield has had probably a much bigger impact on American audiences than... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486068227716 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:35:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486068227716?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482107297412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - Beethoven: MUSIC FOR GOETHE’S “EGMONT”; AH! PERFIDO (CONCERT ARIA); LEONORA OVERTURE NO. 3; CHORAL FANTASY FOR PIANO, ORCHESTRA, & CHORUS Soprano: CHERYL STUDER Speaker: BRUNO GANZ Piano: YEVGENY KISSIN... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482107297412 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:28:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482107297412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_480723046020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - In the eight seasons that it has been on television, American Idol has, for better or worse, changed the face of the pop music cultural landscape.  It has had some truly spectacular disasters (William Hung; Sanjaya), some spectacular... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~480723046020 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:35:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_480723046020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477545401988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - As hugely popular with audiences as they were during the 1970s (and as equally reviled by critics as they were), the disaster film genre often took itself so seriously that it was hardly surprising that some enterprising people would take up the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477545401988 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:53:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477545401988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_476599193220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - Haydn: SYMPHONY NO. 1 Bizet: SYMPHONY IN C MAJOR Prokofiev: SYMPHONY NO. 1 (CLASSICAL) St. Paul Chamber Orchestra/HUGH WOLFF It is not easy to make a “first impression” in classical music, especially in the field of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~476599193220 Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:35:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_476599193220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475888651908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - With a style that is both rustic and modern, rent with country and folk influences on one side and rock and R&B influences on the other, singer/songwriter Tift Merritt has shown herself as a force to be reckoned with in the music community, even if... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475888651908 Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:45:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475888651908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_475459063428?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - Mozart: AVE VERUM CORPUS; EXSULTATE JUBILATE; MASS NO. 17 (GREAT) Soprano: ARLEEN AUGERMezzo-Soprano: FREDERICA VON STADETenor: FRANK LOPARDOBass: CORNELIUS HAUPTMANN Organ: FRIEDMANN... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~475459063428 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:55:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_475459063428?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474651922052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - Decades before Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and even well before anyone had heard of Ann and Nancy Wilson, the great Emerald City, Seattle, Washington, gave the rock and roll world The Ventures, one of the single most influential rock bands of all... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474651922052 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:41:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474651922052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474539003524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - In just the past several years, Hollywood has taken it upon itself to remake films from its distant past, in much the same way it keeps making sequels to films that happen to have been blockbuster hits.  But even more so than sequels, remakes of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474539003524 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:55:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474539003524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473071849092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - The country-rock movement that had its beginnings in California near the end of the 1960s was a genuine reaction against the excesses of the acid rock and psychedelic movements that had dominated much of the music world since 1965.  It was a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473071849092 Sun, 7 Jun 2009 00:00:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473071849092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473065819780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - The so-called "nuclear family" that America had come to idealize as a result of the post-WW II Baby Boom was eventually exposed as an illusion as a result of the many social upheavals of the 1960s, with many young kids either running away from home to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473065819780 Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:49:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473065819780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473065492100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - The saga of the great Apache warrior Geronimo has played a great part in the history of the white man’s settling at the American West, though it is a history that for many decades and centuries has been deified beyond all reason at the expense of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473065492100 Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:35:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473065492100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473061494404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - Mendelssohn: VIOLIN CONCERTO Saint-Saens: HAVANAISE Saint-Saens: INTRODUCTION AND RONDO CAPRICCIOSO Massenet: MEDITATION FROM “THAIS” Violin: NADJA SALERNO-SONNENBERG New York Chamber Symphony Orchestra/GERARD SCHWARZ... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473061494404 Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:05:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473061494404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468952125060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - Schubert: OVERTURE IN C MAJOR—IN THE ITALIAN STYLE; SYMPHONY NO. 9 (GREAT) San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/HERBERT BLOMSTEDT In our time, Franz Schubert is widely acknowledged as the natural successor to Viennese giants like Haydn,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468952125060 Fri, 1 May 2009 22:14:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468952125060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_468948586116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - SCHUBERT: MAGIC HARP OVERTURE; SYMPHONIES NOS. 8 & 5 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/HERBERT BLOMSTEDT Were it not for two enterprising Brits named George Grove and Arthur Sullivan (the latter of whom gained fame as a co-composer with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~468948586116 Fri, 1 May 2009 22:07:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_468948586116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_465392864900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - Oftentimes, the opening credits of a movie can be kind of deceptive.  Take for instance the 1980 western adventure The Mountain Men.  It opens with the widescreen, snow-capped scenery of the Grand Tetons of Wyoming in the mid-19th... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~465392864900 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:46:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_465392864900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464066154116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - 2010—soundtrack (music by David Shire) The biggest difficulty in following up a great film, let alone a landmark film, is in how to follow that film up in a way that doesn’t look like it is repeating the original, or... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464066154116 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:44:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464066154116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464065629828?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ecn71270 - There are dozens of reasons why director Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey has endured for as long as it has, and why, even though it was extremely controversial when it was released, it is considered one of the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464065629828 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:33:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464065629828?linkin_id=8003929