Back in the club, a successful leafleting campaign packs the crowds in, and it’s back to thrashing the strings using the ‘1′, ‘2′ and ‘3′ keys as the notes fly past. When at home, you continue to practise to build up your repertoire and further impress the audience, which leads on to busking mini-games, schmoozing [...]
‘Tres Vidas’ Three lives, a singular experience By Mнa R. Cortez “Tres Vidas,” a theater piece featuring a single actress and a musical trio, will portray the lives of three legendary Latin-American women this Friday at UTEP’s Magoffin Auditorium. Backed by the Core Ensemble, actress Karina Barros will play Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Salvadoran peasant-activist [...]
Jane Austen , Emma , Repertory Theatre of St. Louis , Paul Gordon , musicals So much visual splendor provides an apt setting for the ebullience of Paul Gordon’s music and lyrics, which are readily accessible on a first hearing. In tune with the show’s rustic motif, a small chamber quartet (piano, oboe/English horn, cello, [...]
I don t think if I started (writing plays) in my early 20s, I would have written good ones, he says. There is a certain time when someone starts doing what he does well. Mozart started at 8. George Bernard Shaw was 42 when he wrote his first play. I knew when I wrote ( [...]
The Martin Chronicles Coldplay at Quicken Loans Arena at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 21 Chris Martin knows his audience. Or at least he hopes he does. Coldplay s frontman thought long and hard about his band over the past couple years, quite possibly coming to the same conclusion many of us have: Coldplay s good [...]
Not so anymore. For the week ending Sept. 27, only two of the top 10 hip-hop albums on the charts are from NY artists (LL Cool J and Nas). Last year, of newer rappers (with two or fewer albums to their name) with records in Billboard s top 200, only two were from New York: [...]