Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp. aims to continue building on its product’s legend by creating even more innovative jukeboxes using SolidWorks(R) 3D CAD software. The Torrance, California company replaced 2D paper drafting with 3D modeling to push the limits of cool, hip, and classic jukebox designs. Rock-Ola standardized on SolidWorks to reduce design and prototyping cycles and [...]
We had a day off in the area surrounding the walled city of San Elpidio a Mare, Italy. We took the van down to the beach; Scotty and Brian skipped rocks; Patrick and Travis played this weird little pseudo-poker shell and rock game; and I pulled out my guitar to play this song inspired [...]
Strikes Aren’t Over at La Scala: Sep. 16 Tristan Cancelled L.A. Opera’s Mahagonny, Starring Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone, on PBS and DVD Beginning This Week At Paris Opera, Last Holdout Union Ends Current Strike But Calls Another Click here for more classical music, opera, dance and jazz news and features.
Strikes Aren’t Over at La Scala: Sep. 16 Tristan Cancelled L.A. Opera’s Mahagonny, Starring Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone, on PBS and DVD Beginning This Week At Paris Opera, Last Holdout Union Ends Current Strike But Calls Another Click here for more classical music, opera, dance and jazz news and features.
Brooke Desnoes was 10 or 11 when her parents sought to enroll her in the Alabama Ballet School. “Can you frog?” asked Sonia Arova, the star ballerina turned teacher. What Arova meant, in ballet parlance, was could she lie on her tummy and splay her legs like a frog, a test to see if [...]
Now she’s using her marketing smarts to bring the company into the digital age. She was one of the first in the music business to realize that you have to figure out new ways to get the music out there and make money from it. So she sold the rights of the music of [...]
Guests and numbers are often matched to theme and territory. This year the St. Olaf Choir appeared in an homage to Norway. Broadway actor Tony Roberts sang a Minnesota spoof of ”Oklahoma!” on Broadway. Dworsky and Keillor performed Tom Lehrer’s ”Hanukkah in Santa Monica” on Dec. 8, four days before the official end of the [...]
Also typical of him is the modesty with which he greets my final question, regarding what he would like to be remembered for. ‘Oh goodness! For my work and my singing, I suppose. What can I say? I’d like to be remembered as somebody who brought opera to the people, because that’s my passion. [...]
Stephen Devassy, whose passion is music, composes, sets tunes and arranges music. He scored the music for the 2004 Malayalam movie - ‘Hariharan Pillai Happy Aanu’. Stephen who plays the piano has done eight grades in music from the Trinity College of Music, London and was the best scorer in Asia whose record is yet [...]
Low cloud defied the promoters but Elton John filled the sky with songs from his 40-year career. With the two-and-a-half hour set beginning with his first major solo success Your Song, John and his Yamaha grand piano explored songs from his earliest albums through to his latest contribution for the musical Billy Elliot with [...]