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Rockwell Matters
Monday, April 28, 2008
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The Canned and the Dead
In Europe they celebrate, in America we mourn. Commentator John Rockwell remarks a national tendency to promote cultural achievements in less-than-cheerful circumstances, whether after a critic's divorce from its journal, or worse, after a musician's divorce from... life. In this instance, John considers octogenarian music critic Alan Rich's recent separation from LA Weekly and composer/conductor Gerhard Samuel's recent passing.
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