It was almost too much beauty to take in. With Tchaikovsky s peerless music driving them forward, the supple young women of the Kansas City Ballet and School crisscrossed the studio floor with gymnastic precision. Their tightly sprung leaps reminded you not so much of flowers as gazelles. You re allowed to smile in this [...]
The Kansas City Ballet s production of The Nutcracker is irresistible, even though I m both enchanted and annoyed by the same things each year. On Saturday, it opened to an even larger Music Hall stage than the one it occupied last season, thanks to renovations to the stage completed earlier this year. The [...]
Actress Kim Hee-sun and figure skating princess Kim Yu-na placed sixth and seventh, respectively. Actress Kim who married a businessman last October disclosed some pictures showing partsof her new house on her mini blog. Figure skater Kim who recently won her second Grand Prix gold of the season has continued to draw netizens’ attention.
During the 1990s Gergiev stood alone as a symbol of Russian culture resurgent. The first serious backlash to the international bandwagon of praise came with a much-ballyhooed, ambitious all-Verdi season at Covent Garden in summer 2001, following an ecstatically received London tour of Russian works the previous year. Reviewers who had previously written worshipfully [...]
What fabled 1980s rock trio’s reunion is a cross-generational, cross-national pop phenomenon, filling stadiums with fans who range from 40-somethings nostalgic for the music of their wild youth to teenagers hungry to hear ultra-cool legends performing live for the first time? No, it’s not The Police.
Though new albums from Wonder are also now a 10-year occurrence, he’s remained ubiquitous in pop culture. It’s hard to think of any other popular musician who has been as universally admired. His music seems to span the widest cultural gaps. It’s the perfect time of year for people of all ages and races [...]
Professionally filmed video footage of SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian performing at the House of Blues in Las Vegas on October 25, 2005 can be viewed below (courtesy of The List ). Serj Tankian will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson ’s guests on Friday, December 7 during Bruce ’s weekly BBC [...]
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Even more pierced eyebrows were raised when Against Me! recorded New Wave with big-name producer Butch Vig, the guy who helped bring Nirvana and Sonic Youth up from the underground. But for every punk purist who cries “sellout,” there might be a hundred Fall Out Boy or Boys Like Girls fans who find something deeper [...]
“People are ready to be entertained on a much more visceral and darker level. There is this hunger to see something fancier,” said Mutaytor front man Buck Down, explaining why the group made clown costumes, fire spinners and jugglers part of its trance music act.