Artist: Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Omerta
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Michael Jackson To Release New King Of Pop Album
Saturday 9 August 2008
Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach
Artist: Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Omerta
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Michael Jackson To Release New King Of Pop Album
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Mickey Hart Band drums up US tour
Grateful Dead drummer/percussionist Mickey Hart [ tickets ] has plans to take his band out for a 20-city spin this summer.The musicians will start early next month with festival performances in Santa Rosa, CA, and Lawrence, KS, and then move into July, when they'll play a host of US theaters and festivals across the East Coast and Midwest. Details are listed below.The Mickey Hart Band features guitarist Steve Kimock, bassist George Porter Jr., vocalist Jen Durkin, drummer Walfredo Reyes Jr. and talking-drum master Sikiru Adepoju. On the road, the group will perform the Robert Hunter-penned songs debuted by the Rhythm Devils in 2006--including "Fountains of Wood," "The Center" and "Your House"--in addition to Grateful Dead staples such as "New Speedway Boogie" and "Fire on The Mountain," according to a press release.The outing comes just as the Rhythm Devils, co-founded by Hart and fellow Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, are getting ready to drop a two-disc DVD collection, "Rhythm Devils Concert Experience." The set was filmed in Chicago during the band's 2006 tour and includes interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.Last year, Hart reunited with Adepoju, Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain and conga player Giovanni Hidalgo to record "Global Drum Project," a follow-up to 1991's "Planet Drum," which won the first-ever Grammy for Best World Music Album. Other performers on the October release include Taufiq Qureshi (percussion/vocals), Niladari Kumar (sitar) and Dilshad Khan (sarangi). Sampled vocals are provided by the late West African percussionist Olatunji, who also played on "Planet Drum."In March and April, the Shout! Factory label reissued a series of titles from Hart's catalog, including "Planet Drum," "At The Edge," "Diga Rhythm Band," "Superlingua" and "Mystery Box." The albums are also available as digital downloads for the first time.
Monday 23 June 2008
Kate Middleton Turns Down Queen's Ascot Offer
Kate Middleton has turned down the Queen’s offer of a Royal Ascot table because she doesn’t want to become boyfriend Prince William’s “stand in”.
The 26-year-old “politely declined” the Queen’s invitation to host a private table at the famous horse racing meeting’s Royal Enclosure on Thursday.
Middleton reportedly is reluctant to “stand in for Prince William again and using her Royal status” after representing the absent heir to the throne at his cousin Peter Phillips’ wedding.
A friend explains to the Mail on Sunday, “Kate was all set to take the table after having been personally invited by the Queen. She then had second thoughts and politely declined the offer.
“She loves the races and would have so enjoyed to host her own table, but she said she doesn’t want to be standing in for William again and using her so-called Royal status.
“She knows that if she goes in William’s place as a guest of the Queen the engagement rumours will gather momentum and it’s not what she or William want.”
“Kate’s also been advised to take a back seat publicity-wise, so she’ll only really step out in any sort of Royal capacity when she absolutely has to and when she’s with William.
“She stood in for William at Peter Phillips’s wedding because he asked her to, but Kate is wary of being seen as William’s official stand-in.”
The 26-year-old “politely declined” the Queen’s invitation to host a private table at the famous horse racing meeting’s Royal Enclosure on Thursday.
Middleton reportedly is reluctant to “stand in for Prince William again and using her Royal status” after representing the absent heir to the throne at his cousin Peter Phillips’ wedding.
A friend explains to the Mail on Sunday, “Kate was all set to take the table after having been personally invited by the Queen. She then had second thoughts and politely declined the offer.
“She loves the races and would have so enjoyed to host her own table, but she said she doesn’t want to be standing in for William again and using her so-called Royal status.
“She knows that if she goes in William’s place as a guest of the Queen the engagement rumours will gather momentum and it’s not what she or William want.”
“Kate’s also been advised to take a back seat publicity-wise, so she’ll only really step out in any sort of Royal capacity when she absolutely has to and when she’s with William.
“She stood in for William at Peter Phillips’s wedding because he asked her to, but Kate is wary of being seen as William’s official stand-in.”
Monday 16 June 2008
An emotional send-off for Seattle Symphony's principal cellist
When you encounter Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," you're struck by an immediate feeling of profundity and deep emotional vulnerability. As cellist Joshua Roman recalls, "The first recording I heard was of Leonard Rose on vinyl, and it struck me as one of the most beautiful pieces in the repertoire."
Now "Schelomo" will be Roman's swan song as Seattle Symphony's principal cellist. The 24-year-old string phenom is leaving at the end of this season to pursue a solo career.
Described by Bloch as a rhapsody for cello and orchestra, the piece is loosely based on Ecclesiastes, sometimes attributed to King Schelomo (Solomon). From approximately 1912 to 1926, Bloch turned his attention to his Jewish roots. Other composers may have referred to Jewish themes, but Bloch was one of the first composers to fully integrate Jewish material into his compositions.
As the composer wrote in program notes for a 1933 performance of "Schelomo," "I was saturated with the Biblical text and, above all, with the misery of the world, for which I have always had so much compassion."
This feeling flows through the piece. Five times the music rises quietly from the cello to spectacular orchestral culminations. Each time new emotions are engaged, ending in the famous outcry in Ecclesiastes "vanity of vanities" before finally fading away.
"Schelomo" is Bloch's most famous and most performed piece of music. Its durability, when most of Bloch's other major works are seldom heard on the concert stage, can be attributed to the range and sound required of the cello part.
As Roman explained, "It's very passionate, very songful, very much a 'cello piece.' I think it is one of those pieces that personifies the popular conception of what the cello sound is. It's both mellow and operatic at the same time."
Roman will perform the piece as part of a concert that also features Paul Hindemith's Concert Music for Strings and Brass — a lush, melodic work that combines dissonance and consonance — and Cesar Franck's final orchestral work, Symphony in D Minor.
In the immediate future, Roman plans to perform, record and direct TownMusic, the "exploratory classical music series" he inaugurated at Town Hall last year. He will return to Seattle Symphony next season to perform David Stock's Cello Concerto under the direction of former Oregon Symphony Maestro James DePriest.
Meanwhile, "Schelomo" is an appropriate send-off. The emotional variety and the music's transformation into a subdued ending suggest both lamentation and something bigger yet to come.
As the cellist says, "My goal with my music is to be an open and honest communicator, and I hope that people hear that. People shouldn't think of this as a goodbye or that they can forget me, because I'll be back."
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Sunday 1 June 2008
Fox launches venture to discover animation talent
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - News Corp. is drawing up big small-screen animation plans. 20th Century Fox TV and Fox Broadcasting Co. have teamed to launch Fox Inkubation, a joint venture designed to discover new animation talent and develop animated projects outside of the traditional model.
Additionally, 20th TV has formed a new animation department focused on more conventional development of cartoon series and has tapped Jennifer Howell, executive vice president of "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker's Important Films, to run it.
"So much of our success has been driven by animated shows, and we have been contemplating how to step up our efforts in the area," 20th TV chairman Gary Newman said. "We believe it is critical to our future success."
Separately, Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly had been looking to do the same on the network side, so the sister companies joined forces to create Inkubation, which also will be overseen by Howell.
The initiative will give aspiring writer/animators funding to make two-minute shorts in lieu of penning a script.
If the shorts are successful, Fox and 20th TV may order additional shorts or take the concepts to pilot, possibly pairing the newcomers with experienced producers.
"A lot of the greatest voices in that arena came from outside the system, like Matt Groening, Matt Stone and Trey Parker and Seth MacFarlane," Reilly said. "We want to let these voices be produced in a pure way."
Instead of a script order, young animator MacFarlane famously was given $50,000 by Fox and 20th TV a decade ago to produce a 15-minute presentation of a show based on characters from his college thesis. The show became "Family Guy."
Additionally, 20th TV has formed a new animation department focused on more conventional development of cartoon series and has tapped Jennifer Howell, executive vice president of "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker's Important Films, to run it.
"So much of our success has been driven by animated shows, and we have been contemplating how to step up our efforts in the area," 20th TV chairman Gary Newman said. "We believe it is critical to our future success."
Separately, Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly had been looking to do the same on the network side, so the sister companies joined forces to create Inkubation, which also will be overseen by Howell.
The initiative will give aspiring writer/animators funding to make two-minute shorts in lieu of penning a script.
If the shorts are successful, Fox and 20th TV may order additional shorts or take the concepts to pilot, possibly pairing the newcomers with experienced producers.
"A lot of the greatest voices in that arena came from outside the system, like Matt Groening, Matt Stone and Trey Parker and Seth MacFarlane," Reilly said. "We want to let these voices be produced in a pure way."
Instead of a script order, young animator MacFarlane famously was given $50,000 by Fox and 20th TV a decade ago to produce a 15-minute presentation of a show based on characters from his college thesis. The show became "Family Guy."
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