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Nicholas McGegan, members of the Arcadian Academy and two accomplished singers make further inroads to Alessandro Scarlatti’s chamber cantatas with a fourth volume. This has been a very enjoyable series so far, and has featured a variety of different vocal ranges. Vol. 4 contains three cantatas for two sopranos and a serenata, whose form is usually more extended than a cantata, allows for anything up to six singers and is often in two parts. Their textual content, like almost all Italian chamber cantatas, is pastoral and peopled with allegorical figures. Tirsis, Clori, Fillida and Cupid seem never far away, sighing, weeping, yearning or cursing one another’s apparent infidelities. These were forms at which Scarlatti excelled and there are, consequently, few musical disappointments.

An excellent collection of rare unreleased tracks/jams by this outstanding, prolific blues/rock axeslinger from Cedar Rapids, Iowa featuring 14 tracks of awesome, dynamic, blues-based, retro-70s, heavy guitar rock mojo that is highly recommended to fans of all his other previous outstanding discs. On "Rare Tracks" (Volume Two), Craig Erickson picks up where he left off on the first "Rare Tracks" disc and takes us on a deep, intimate, six string musical journey with his guitar.

Rogers re-emerged after a long layoff with a 1972 album for Leon Russell's Shelter label called Gold Tailed Bird. It wasn't the equivalent of his immortal Chess stuff, but the Shelter sides, here in their entirety, are pretty decent themselves (and no wonder, with the Aces, Freddy King, and reliable Chicago pianist Bob Riedy all involved). A few extra numbers not on the original Shelter LP make this 18-song set even more solid.

In this second Volume of the Quick Start to JavaScript tutorial, we'll learn more methods of control flow like switch statements, for loops, and while loops. We'll learn how to create reusable commands with functions, store values in arrays, and how to use a loop with an array.

The Grateful Dead‘s September 8, 1973 concert at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York will be featured on Dave’s Picks Volume 38, which is due in the second quarter of 2021. Dave’s Picks 2021 subscribers will receive a bonus disc containing highlights from the previous night’s show at the same venue.