SIOUX CITY — The Sioux City Symphony’s newly added concert for fourth-grade students will fill the Orpheum Theater. “We are very pleased that educators in Siouxland have responded so enthusiastically,” stated Douglas Gerhart, Symphony executive director. “To host more than 40 elementary schools in one concert is gratifying and overwhelming.” On Jan. 17, more than [...]
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The Center’s directors are keeping its stages busy for its first season, which runs through April 6. Both the China National Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will play there regularly, and the Taipei Symphony performs a program as well. Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic will wrap up their 2008 winter tour [...]
But Don changed his tune nearly two years ago when Wayne s son, Wolfgang, then 8, received a digital drum kit from Santa. Wolfgang had practiced drumming for several years by listening to the percussive sounds of Yes, Pink Floyd, Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, to name a few. He never had [...]
Onstage, the band members arrange themselves, left to right, from the deceptively stolid to the decidedly unhinged. Iverson is bald, goateed, besuited, and classically trained, and, when describing the tunes, he speaks in a spacey, Steven Wright monotone. One tune, Iverson gravely informed the Zankel audience, is about a bowler named Bernie. He lived [...]
Newburgh — A 21-year-old man was stabbed by an unknown assailant after a Jadakiss concert at a local nightclub early this morning. The man was leaving 90 Broadway when he was stabbed multiple times, according to police. He was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital for treatment. Anyone who witnessed the incident or has any [...]
I was itching to listen to this album as, in a sense, as a Capricorn I am a ‘child of Saturn’ and secondly because I found the cover photograph intriguing (for ‘intriguing’ read ‘a little scary’). Michael Allen More (guitar, vocals, keyboards) wrote all but one of the tracks and was in the band [...]
Country acts fared well, scoring four slots in Pollstar’s top 20 tours as finalized Friday. Kenny Chesney again finished near the top of the heap, at No. 2 with $71.1 million in sales. Chesney and the Police were the only two acts last year that sold more than 1 million tickets in North America, a [...]
Speaking to ANGOP, Konde stated that everything has been prepared to grant a worthy Christmas gift to the fans, on Sunday (December 23). The album counted with the participation of musicians like Sandokan, Gomez and Zizy, having also been produced by Cal Pascoal, Presilha, Heltom Bobs and Jorge Cervantes. The CD work has the [...]
Anderson did write at least one serious concert work, the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra , which Nelson Kole and the Santa Barbara Symphony will also perform on New Year’s Eve. Kole will play the title instrument in ‘њThe Typewriter,’ќ a work that features an ancient device that makes a distinctive clicking noise and [...]