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Grande improvvisazione ad Angelica
by Libero Farnè
Angelica Festival Bologna Teatro San Leonardo 21-22.05.2016 All'interno di un festival che programmaticamente non privilegia nessun genere musicale, ma che dà spazio ad autori delle più svariate provenienze e alle modalità più disparate del fare musica, è possibile imbattersi in alcune esperienze significative dell'improvvisazione assoluta. È quello che è capitato nell'edizione in corso, la ventiseiesima, di Angelica momento maggio," apertasi il 5 maggio con la prima italiana della sorprendente Ellen Fullman alle prese con il ...
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by John Kelman
As challenging as free improvisation can be, the truth is that while it may appear to be an aimless mixture of sounds found or otherwise, in the right hands it is something that--best absorbed as a whole rather than a collection of individual parts--can be as beautiful as it sometimes is jarring and off-putting. Spunk pushes the limits of acoustic and electronic instrumentation, as well as voice; but with an injection of humorous absurdity that may, perhaps, be best experienced ...
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by Eyal Hareuveni
The third studio disc by the Norwegian all-female quartet Spunk suggests a new perspective on free collective improvisation. Free improv does not have to be cerebral and dead serious. Spunk likes to push the music into absurdist extremes, to load the music with eccentric ideas, almost to the brink of anarchy, but always with a quirky humor and subtlety and an emphasis on how individual voices can become one.
En Aldeles Forferdelig Sykdom ("An Absolutely Terrible Disease") is ...
read moreKelli O'Hara No Cartwheels (for Now), but Oodles of Spunk
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Michael Ricci
Americas sweetheart: inside the hothouse of the Broadway musical that label, applied to movie stars from Mary Pickford to Julia Roberts, would surely belong to Kelli OHara.
Her winsome portrayal of Nellie Forbush in the revival of South Pacific cinched the title for her. On Wednesday this radiant, wholesome singing actress from Oklahoma with one foot in country music and the other in opera brought her spunky all-American charm to the Caf Carlyle for two weeks.
Kelli OHara has started ...
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