Monday, November 24, 2008

Bierstadt Western Kansas

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Certainly nowadays many musicians make the majority of their money from live performances of their have you been doing? People have been saying you've just been on the run, Harry, but I don't think so. I think you've been up to something."

   "You're right," said Harry, "but tell us about Hogwarts, Neville, we haven't heard anything."

   "It's been …. Well, it's not really like Hogwarts anymore," said Neville, the smile fading from his face as he spoke. "Do you know about the Carrows?"

"Those two Death Eaters who teach here?"Yeah," said Neville, panting a little now, because the passage was climbing so steeply, "well, you can see their thinking. It had worked really well, kidnapping kids to force their relatives to behave. I s'pose it was only a matter of time before they did it the other way around. Thing was," he faced them, and Harry was astonished to see that he was grinning, "they bit off a bit more than they could chew with Gran. Little old witch living alone, they probably thought hey didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway," Neville laughed, "Dawlish is still in St. Mungo's and Gran's on the run. She sent me a letter," he clapped a hand to the breast pocket of his robes, "telling me she was proud of me, that I'm my parent's son, and to keep it up."

   "They do more than teach," said Neville. "They're in charge of all discipline. They like punishmentrather than from albums. Indeed some of them are even giving their albums away for free.
This may be part of a cultural recognition that more than just sound, it is an interaction between singer and audience, a big bit part of which is the artist's facial expressions and gestures. It's this interaction on which we are beginning to place a higher value.

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