I love The Eagles, but Linda Ronstadt's recording of "Desperado" is so much better than theirs. Here she is singing it in that 1977 concert from Hollywood, the one I saw on PBS a few weeks ago and inspired this tribute. Her performance is so lovely, and the video style is totally 70s, with the small image of Linda inset in the larger image of the pianist.
This was another case of YouTube making a helpful suggestion on their homepage:
Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," part one of Child Alice. He wrote many pieces inspired by A
The Best Actress winner for 2000 was Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. That performance was a beguiling mixture of diva and mensch so instead I'm going to focus on two other Best Acrtess nominees tha