Somewhat Like You has been done about 10 times previously, including a stop at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

“But the piece addresses larger public issues. It’s about general concerns no matter what age you are . . . things like friendship, disputes, sensuality, coming to terms with who you are, being attracted to someone.

Scrooge in Concert Musical Brings Holiday Cheer to Tucson

UApresents brings Scrooge in Concert to Tucson for two special performances on Thursday, Dec. 20 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at The University of Arizona s Centennial Hall.

The Greatest Rock Metal News Report

Don’t back page yet. You’re esteemed normal writer, Daniel Wilcox is out still, taking care of important business elsewhere - So you get an abby-normal writer this week. Bonus points to you if you got that reference. Anyway, Dan is out, but he cared enough about you, his faithful readers, to get someone to fill [...]

Australian Singer Mark Sholtez Interviewed at AAJ

It’s been more than a year now since Mark Sholtez’s debut album Real Street (Verve, 2006) was released. Exciting things have happened since, mainly in his home country of Australia. Real Street celebrated ten weeks in a row at the number one position on the Jazz and Blues Album Charts , and was also nominated [...]

Hip-hop power put Texas rap on radars

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Ground Zero Texas, Brian Keane & Rachel Loy’s Going Away Party, The Knitters, Iron and Wine, Duran Duran

The Knitters. The country and western side of X a band that Austin bands have been eyeing with a mixture of pride and envy for, oh, 30 years or so gets a workout. They hit the stage at 10 p.m. Saturday with Hacienda Brothers. $25. Sunday they go on at 8 p.m. $20. Continental [...]

Peruvian-born Miguel Harth-Bedoya is credited with transforming the Fort Worth Symphony into a top-tier ensemble.

According to Otto-Werner Mueller, Harth-Bedoya’s teacher at both Curtis and later the Juilliard School, the young Peruvian was a natural conductor and one of his best students. “He has a certain incredibly rhythmic energy,” says Mueller, who has also taught New York Philharmonic music director-designate Alan Gilbert and Cincinnati Symphony music director Paavo J [...]

Guitar Hero strums for a local encore

MUMBAI: In November 2005, game freaks in the US were swept away by a product that slickly combined two of the most popular entertainment genres — gaming and music. The mass-appeal video game, called Guitar Hero, lured professional gamers and amateurs alike by giving them the ability to “rock out” just like their music [...]

“Yiddish Dance

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Harmonix Talks Guitar Hero ’s $1 Million Budget, Guitar Freaks Inspiration

We had a team that had just been freed up, as we’d just finished AntiGrav . This seemed like an awesome project. Everyone here was really psyched to work on a rock guitar game; it really fitted in with people’s interests here. No one had any notions about it being a massive success; we all [...]