That’s why the nine Chicago musicians, operating collectively as Chicago Latino Composers, have been working in partnership with various local cultural organizations, including the International Latino Cultural Center, to present their music, and the works of other Latin American composers, as a bona-fide festival. Their latest joint effort, the 2007 Latino Music Festival beginning Sunday [...]
Not the kind of weather that walkers who come to Vals in the summer long for. But the rain suited me. I was headed for a spa about 120 miles southeast of Zurich, where I planned to spend the next 24 hours. I admit it: I like fancy spas.. But I didn’t come to Vals [...]
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Like Mozart, Montero was a toddler prodigy. At 18 months, she began to pick out tunes on a toy piano her grandmother had placed in her crib. At age 8 she moved to Miami with her family for a music scholarship. She took the Bronze Medal in the Chopin International Piano Competition in her 20s, [...]
Email to a friend Printer friendly Font: * * * * Now, he’s teaching himself to play for a second time — but this time without seeing. Neto hunched over a Godin guitar at a Calgary music store Saturday, his dancing fingers picking out a reggae tune. The song he crooned — roughly translated [...]
They’re real people, Phoenix’s Tylissa Wagner, 32, said. Aside from the tight artist-fan relationship, Wagner said, the sound of Roger Clyne the Peacemakers is real-life music’” you can just relax to it. Other fans love the variety of musical styles and strong songwriting. Some people find (the music) multifaceted. Some people find just entertainment, Clyne [...]
They join an eclectic group of ARIA Award recipients who include THE LIVING END, KASEY CHAMBERS and SHANE NICHOLSON, NICK CAVE and GEOFFREY GURRUMUL YUNUPINGU, THE PANICS and BLISS N’ ESO , among others.
Essentially what you get here is a classic soundtrack that’s been successfully reworked from top to bottom, with 20 songs that are mostly well-done covers offering a fresher take by modern groups. Korn injects its trademark brand of hard-charging, head-banging, pulsating rock.
All of us know how difficult it is to keep in touch with the fine arts while managing a household or a profession; imagine how much tougher it can be to do so if one wanted to travel the world as well. But one extraordinary individual who has managed to all this, and managed to [...]
“”””””””””” Bus Stop is set in a howling snowstorm with a busload of weary travelers holed up at a roadside diner. A nightclub singer named Cherie (played by Marilyn Monroe in the movie adaptation) has been kidnapped by a young cowboy who is ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, kicking and [...]