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Black Dogs (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
An entertaining evening in the Great Hall of Liverpool Hope University last Wednesday with gorgeous, pouting Joanna MacGregor and a wide variety of (North) American piano music. The highlights for me were Conlon Nancarrow’s Prelude and Blues , Nina Simone’s version of Good Bait , Samuel Barber’s Excursions and Frederic Rzewski’s Winnsboro’ Cottonmill Blues . As a reminder that the piano...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
... Not To Be." Bits of dances to American music - painstakingly divided into classical (Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein) before the intermission, and jazz/pop (Wynton Marsalis, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Gershwin) afterward - didn't add up to a coherent whole. The best was "The Unanswered Question," an excerpt from George Balanchine's 1954 ballet "Ivesiana" in which...
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PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
New York City Opera has released full casting and further details about its upcoming concert staging of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra - which is to star Lauren Flanigan and Teddy Tahu Rhodes in the title roles. The rarely-seen 1966 work will be performed Jan. 15-16 at Carnegie Hall.
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Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Dude on Stone , originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ . Taken tonight just after the premier of W in Thessaloniki during the city's 49th film festival. For more on Oliver Stone click here . Adagio for Strings (Platoon ost) - Samuel Barber
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
... baton of Edwin Outwater, and the team did a nice job of balancing savagery and elegance throughout.Samuel Barber's "Second Essay" opened the night, a pleasant diversion from his ubiquitous "Adagio for Strings" and a piece that grows - with impressive weight - out of three simple themes. After the woodwinds juggled the melodies as a fugue, the entire ensemble wove its textures into...
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Total Video Games (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
... have speculated about a peripheral for the game.Perhaps most famously known for his dance remix of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings (used as the theme in the film Platoon), DJ Tiësto is one of the biggest names in the world of DJing. "I am very excited about this! I think this is a great way to introduce people into Djing," he said. "Maybe they realize it's not as easy as they think,...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... funk of The Bad Plus. All that and it's drop-dead gorgeous. "Ana Eco" sounds like a great lost Samuel Barber adagio; "Hard Sole Shoe" rocks with gleeful abandon. And "Old Brooklyn" will toy with your heart, with trumpeter Ron Miles manipulating the valves. – John KeheBill Carrothers: 'Home Row'Jazz piano trio albums have glutted the market for years. That might be the only imaginable...
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Dutchblog Israel (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
These last few days I have listened many times to a CD with two symphonies written by American composers, Samuel Barber ( Symphony no. 2, op. 19 ) and George Frederick Bristow ( Symphony in F sharp minor, op. 26 ). I never heard before of the latter ( I took the CD from my parents because of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings ), but I really love his symphony, it is one...
