Patt Diroll: Music honors, fashion showcase
To mark the 15th anniversary of Jeffrey Kahane’s remarkable career as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, nearly 200 LACO benefactors turned out for the Crystal Ball held at downtown L.a.’s California Club on Feb. 11. A native Angeleno, Kahane is the quintessential Renaissance man – a piano virtuoso in his own right, [...]
Album Review: Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun
It’s been seven years since the last proper Dirty three album, and that’s a lot of time for this inventive trio to come up with some new ideas. And, perhaps because of all that time, a funny thing happens at the start of Toward the low Sun. All the ideas come out, all the sounds, [...]
Pacific NW
FOR A TIME, I believed that the last thing my late brother Flip ever ate was a spoonful of banana pudding, when in fact, it was a spoonful of peanut-butter fudge. My brother was a chef and a painter whose culinary endeavors tended to steer clear of the house-wifey kinds of dishes that involved boxed [...]
On a musical mission
Pianist, songwriter and musical director Rowan Bakker is a busy man: at the moment, he’s involved with children’s musicals Beautiful Creatures and Aladdin Jr and, er, middle-aged women’s musical Menopause: The Musical. “I go to Montecasino every morning at 11am and do two separate cast warm-ups,” says Bakker. “Aladdin runs with back-tracks, but I then [...]
Tori Amos aims high but misses at Orpheum show
Let’s be honest here: Rock musicians have a terrible record when it comes to classical music. Ask them to write an extended piece for orchestra — or even, God save us, a string quartet — and the most sophisticated rockers (say, McCartney or Costello) find themselves turning cautious and straining for seriousness. Even such iconoclastic [...]
Bob Brookmeyer obituary
The appeal of most jazz movies has rarely spread beyond the cognoscenti, but Bert Stern’s captivating 1960 documentary Jazz on a Summer’s Day quickly acquired the popular status it has retained to this day. Stern’s subject was the 1958 Newport jazz festival – an unjazzily sunlit, luxuriously lazy setting for an animated all-star cast that [...]
Piano’s a grand find for Amman Valley trustees (From South Wales Guardian)
Piano’s a grand find for Amman Valley trustees 9:20am Friday 16th December 2011 in News Skip social links Print Email Comments(0) JUST one year into what was feared could be an 18-month search for one of the world’s most iconic musical instruments, trustees of the Amman Valley’s top live music venue have unveiled their new [...]
Go! Music & Dance calendar: Dec. 2-8
Published: 2:00 AM – 12/02/11 Bard College — “An Enchanted Evening of Balinese Music & Dance,” Olin Hall, Annandale, 8 p.m. Dec. 2, $10, free for Bard students, faculty, staff. Contact 688-7090, as722@bard.edu. Also: Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein and featuring pianist Jeremy Denk performing Charles Ives’ “Decoration Day” and “Fourth of July,” Ludwig [...]
In the Area – Silver City Sun-News
Tenth Street at Mountain View Road will be closed for repairs until Wednesday. please seek an alternate route during the street closure. Today Western new Mexico Board of Regents Regular Session, 10:15 a.m. Friday, WNMU Thomas McDonald Student Memorial Building., third floor Seminar Room. Preceded by Working Session at 10 a.m. Agenda available at the [...]
Duo Petrof presented by Blue Candlelight Music review
ReviewsOUR TAKES ON THEATER, DANCE, MUSIC AND OPERA Two by Twoby Gregory Sullivan Isaacspublished Monday, October 10, 2011 Dual piano teams used to be a staple of local concert series. there is a great repertoire to explore and two grand pianos can make a really big and thrilling sound. unfortunately, in the last few decades, [...]