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AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey: “ The Ritz Chamber Ensemble to Perform October 25 and 26 World renowned African American classical musicians perform two diverse programs with works from Beethoven to Tania León . Two performances only! Making its Peak Performances @ Montclair debut, The Ritz Chamber Ensemble under the direction of Terrance Patterson presents two dynamically different...
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
CLASSICAL musician and TV presenter Myleene Klass unveiled her new baby fashion line in Liverpool.
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
CLASSICAL musician and TV presenter Myleene Klass unveiled her new baby fashion line in Liverpool.
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Wynton Marsalis hardly needs an introduction. One of the most brilliant jazz trumpeters of our time, he's also an accomplished classical musician, composer and jazz historian. Before he won nine Grammy Awards, before he became the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize in music for his epic oratorio "Blood on the Fields," and before he established Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis was born to...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Goa based record label Rock and Raaga has released the Brown Indian Band's debut album titled E-Fusion. The Brown Indian Band led by bassplayer Colin D'Cruz, features accomplished Indian classical musicians in concert with jazz virtuosos. Indian classical music and jazz are both forms of improvised music. Indian classical music is linear and improvisation is based on just one raga (scale). Jazz on...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Jazz is a music almost obsessed with its own history. Sure, rock ‘n’ rollers are sometimes compared to earlier practitioners and classical musicians are required to know voluminous amounts of traditional repertoire, but jazz players usually have to deal with both issues. It is surely intimidating to a young player both to carry on a century-old tradition while competing with the music of their elders...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
PUDUCHERRY: It was a celebration to mark the centenary of the visit of poet Subramanya Bharathi to Puducherry. Folk and classical musicians rendered Bharathi’s songs to the accompaniment of drums and nagaswaram. Young artists ...
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Phawker (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
GHOST TOWN (2008, directed by David Koepp, 102 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Have you ever had a classical musician dazzle you with their instrumental brilliance, then knock out a jaunty version of something like “Three Blind Mice” for a tongue-in-cheek encore? The Office creator Ricky Gervais’ first Hollywood star vehicle plays out something like [...]
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AfterEllen (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
In a surprising new list, Playboy celebrates the “Hottest Babes of Classical Music.” The magazine’s editors find sexy people everywhere, so why not the opera and the symphony? Say what you want about such a list, but I applaud anything that removes the nerd stigma from highbrow pursuits like classical music. If seeing the hotties behind the music encourages people to buy records and concert tickets,...
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Texas Tech University Music Theory (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Last night, Texas Tech hosted a live taping of the radio program From the Top . The program features talented young classical musicians in performance, and includes interviews with the students in an effort to show that many classical musicians don't fit the stuffy stereotypes. This rather informal format--musical performances interspersed with interviews, dialogue, and humor--seems to me an interesting...
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Programming World (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Today's Headlines Saturday, September 13, 2008 In this email: Mumbai | India | World | Money | Sport | After Hrs TOP NEWS Katrina learns to play the cello Katrina Kaif is leaving no stone unturned to realistically portray the role of a trained classical musician in Subhash Ghai's forthcoming musical drama Yuvvraaj. Talks fail as Mamata rejects Buddha offer After the 75-minute meeting with Bhattacharjee,...
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The World's Fair (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
That's Canadian candidates folks. Anyway, it would go something like this: STEPHEN HARPER: Voting for a harpist would be cool. I mean, I'm no classical musician, but that Stephen Harper seems downright magical on the harp - a real virtuoso. His fingers just seem to glide over the strings. His technique and speed are unmatched, and his concentration, you can see it in his eyes. It's like he's Eddie...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
"Whether up on the podium, at the Steinway or among the orchestral ranks, the winds of change are blowing through the wardrobes. Conductors are just the latest to branch out from the snowy bow tie. When Daniele Gatti, the Royal Philharmonic's principal conductor since 1996, turned out in a black, round-collared Mao suit to conduct their Prom last week, it was a sign of the times. Why now? Well, classical...
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Soho the Dog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
If you're any sort of classical musician, I'll bet that somewhere, even if you never actually use it, you have at least a small, finely honed sense of disenfranchisement. So if you've ever looked at the human penchant for naming geographical features—mountains, rivers, &c. —after other humans, and wondered why they always seem to opt for explorers and politicians and military types rather than, you...
