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A Look Inside the Renovated Concert Hall at Lincoln Center
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Michael Ricci
With giddiness and glee, musicians tested the acoustics of the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, less than a month before it reopens after a $159 million, 22-month upgrade, a major milestone in Lincoln Centers $1.2 billion remaking.
The musicians, acoustical experts and Lincoln Center officials in attendance all proclaimed the hall much more present, alive and reverberant than the old Tully, which had been widely faulted for its dry sound. That was the initial impression, but a highly ...
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How Working Musicians Try to Make Themselves Recession-Proof
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All About Jazz
The bitter reality of a tough economy is a been-there, done-that obstacle to most working musicians. Making a living out of playing music has never been an easy road, and hunger (both literal and figurative) is a big part of the job description.
People who play music are better able to handle whatever the economy throws at them because theyre always on a tight budget, says Katie Tuten, co-owner of the Hideout, a North Side club that books hundreds of ...
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American Apparel Slams Woody Allen's Sex Life
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Michael Ricci
A clothing company known for its racy ads is fighting a $10 million lawsuit brought by Woody Allen, arguing that it can't have damaged his reputation by using his image because the film director has already ruined it himself.
The 73-year-old Allen started the fight against American Apparel Inc. when he sued the company last year for using his image on the company's billboards in Hollywood and New York and on a Web site.
Allen, who does not endorse products ...
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Memories Fading on Vegas icon Liberace
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Michael Ricci
A town that lives in the present has little use for its past. We blow up the buildings, rename the theaters and replace the marquees.
Of course, at any given time, Las Vegas had performers who in different ways came to symbolize the Las Vegas of a certain period, Old Vegas is best captured by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and, of course, Liberace. Of those three, only Liberace has failed to leave an extensive legacy that attracts new generations of ...
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Famous Record Producer Must Serve at Least 18 Years of a Mandatory Life Sentence
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Michael Ricci
A Los Angeles jury convicted Phil Spector of second-degree murder Monday, making the legendary record producer who worked with the Beatles and a host of other pop stars the first celebrity found guilty of murder on Hollywood's home turf in at least 40 years.
The verdict read in a tense, standing-room-only courtroom came six years and two trials after police found Lana Clarkson, a statuesque blond actress, shot to death in a chair in Spector's 30-room Alhambra mansion.
As a ...
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Bill Evans, Rachmaninoff and Van Cliburn
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Mike Harris is the Bill Evans devotee who surreptitiously recorded the Evans trio performances that comprise the music in the eight-disc boxed set Bill Evans: The Secret Sessions. Mr. Harris is a classically trained pianist who, long before he became addicted to Evans, learned to play the works of Sergei Rachmaninoff. In this article for Rifftides, he discloses that Evans, too, was a Rachmaninoff fan.
REVIEW OF NEW VIDEO ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL" SERIES VAN CLIBURN IN MOSCOW
By Mike ...
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Spector Jury Has Reached a Verdict/ Guilty of second-degree murder
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Michael Ricci
Phil Spector has been convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of actress Lana Clarkson six years ago.
An L.A. Superior Court jury reached its decision against the legendary music producer after nine days of deliberations. An earlier jury deadlocked 10-2 in favor of guilt.
The decision means the 69-year-old Spector, famed for his work with musical acts such as Tina Turner, the Beatles and the Righteous Brothers, faces at least 18 years in prison when he is ...
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Improv, Techno-Tricks and a Bach Framework
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Michael Ricci
Soon after the conductor Kristjan Jarvi founded the Absolute Ensemble in 1993, it quickly became established as one of New York’s most versatile and important contemporary-classical groups. But Mr. Jarvi’s tastes ran wider still, taking in jazz, rock, hip-hop and various strains of world music; accordingly, the Absolute Ensemble morphed into an electro-acoustic band better suited to expressing his inclusionary aesthetic. When these musicians last played the city in August 2007, their program combined jazz and Arabic styles. While the ...
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