‘Jeff Findl and the Acoustic Accomplices’ is a group of eight Los Angeles area musicians that recorded 21 original songs featuring the nylon-string guitar, piano, and other orchestral accompaniment. Their upbeat instrumental compositions showcase outstanding musicianship that fills the musical space with melodic grooves of cheerfulness and creativity.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION , a violin concerto by Chris Brubeck, will receive its world premiere at 8 p.m. Saturday, repeating at 4 p.m. Oct. 28, by the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra with violinist Nicolas Kendall. The program also includes music by Gershwin, Bernstein and Dave Brubeck’s teacher, Darius Milhaud. Tickets are $15-$42, available at centertix.net or […]
On Broadway, performers would be justifiably appalled by audience participation, but Wilkinson’s concert isn’t a Broadway show. “It’s a very informal thing,” he says. “I say, if you know the song, please sing along. You want to clap your hands? Clap your hands. It’s not one of those serious type of jobs.
SHANGHAI: Cancer patients in the city are being offered a range of new treatments, including aromatherapy and listening to New Age music, to help them cope with the side effects of the disease. Although such treatments are commonly used as supplements to chemical and radioactive treatments in the West, the newly opened AmMed Cancer […]
The Mt. Hood Pops Orchestra will begin its 25th year of performances with its first concert of the season, titled Broadway Classics, at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, at the Performing Arts Center in Reynolds High School, 1698 S.W. Cherry Park Road, Troutdale.
Lucky Dube On October 18, reggae star Lucky Dube was shot and killed in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the victim of an apparent carjacking. According to police reports, the 43-year-old singer attempted to drive away, but succumbed to his injuries and crashed his car into another vehicle and a tree. Dube launched his […]
Because the quartet plays from memory, and due to the fact that all four members are sought-after soloists in their own right, the program for each season remains the same for all venues. This season, the quartet will perform Mozart’s Quartet No. 3 in G Major, K. 156; Schumann’s Quartet No. 1 in A […]
The movie’s music supervisor, Dana Sano, and Hedges’ friends gave him hundreds of CDs. Hedges dutifully listened. The artist he kept returning to was a wunderkind named Sondre Lerche, a singer-songwriter superstar in his native Norway but largely unknown in the United States.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Photographer Ernest Withers, who spent more than 60 years documenting history from the blues music of Beale Street to the civil rights movement, died Monday. He was 85.Withers died at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center from complications of a stroke he suffered last month, said his son, Joshua `Billy’ Withers of […]
CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine — Jefferson Starship, a collaboration of celebrated musicians that plays from the rich songbook of its legendary forefathers Jefferson Airplane and the original incarnation of Jefferson Starship, will take the stage of Sugarloaf’s King Pine room on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007. Maine’s own legendary Outerspace Band will launch the evening’s festivities […]