Patricia Hammond's career has really started to take off and she's got this real fancy schmancy site at, wouldn't you guess, www.patriciahammond.com.   Now we only occasionally hear from her, when she pesters us to remove scathing comments about the major labels with whom her relationship would seem to have changed.

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BACK ISSUES

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August 2000 - Reading

Patricia digs up some not-so-new art and music writings and finds signs of life.

May 2000 - Criticizing Music Recording

Homeless, Patricia gets hooked on the live stuff.

December 1999 - Y2K HOLIDAY LISTENING

Patricia's seasonal suggestions (not that they change that much from one year to the next).

November 1999 - IN THE BACKGROUND

On the value of musical wallpaper, be it bleeding chunks ("like making a collage of all the most attractive faces Leonardo da Vinci painted") or the Tallis Scholars. Also vintage death metal substitutes.

October 1999 - RANT

(dammit, some folks just weren't as famous as they deserved...)

September 1999 - Penal Pleasures

What would you choose for a CD collection if you were sentenced to life in prison?

August 1999 - BEING THERE

Great Moments in Recorded History

June 1999 - SYMPHONIES ON THE CHEAP

(So what happened to July and May? Well apparently Patricia was singing a bunch of cheap concerts!)

April 1999 - UNDERSTANDING OPERA SINGERS, PART TWO

The female voices. (And you thought the men were complicated!)

March 1999 - UNDERSTANDING OPERA SINGERS, PART ONE

The male voices. Do you know your Lyric Tenor from your Heldentenor?

February 1999 - SHOSTAKOVICH'S RISKY FIFTH, PART TWO

(the Dead Kennedys weren't the only rebellious ones!)

January 1999 - SHOSTAKOVICH'S RISKY FIFTH, PART ONE

or: a punk rock grrl's introduction to classical music

December 1998 - WHY CLASSICAL MUSIC MAKES A GREAT GIFT

ten excellent titles suggested as Christmas gifts but listenable year-round