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Motema Music Travels "Along the Silk Road" with Tomoko Sugawara
She plays an ancient harp invented nearly 4000 years ago in Mesopotamia. Variously named “angular harp," “chang," “kunghou," and “kugo," the instrument on which Tomoko Sugawara performs can be seen in centuries-old Buddhist cave paintings and in artists' depictions from countries along the trade route known as the Silk Road. On March 9th, the classically trained ...
DCist Preview: Joshua Redman Trio
Despite the success of artists like Wynton Marsalis, the 1980s were a somewhat dark period in jazz. There was no particular movement breathing new life into the music, as fusion had done in the '70s, and the masters who came up during the classic days were aging. Fortunately, jazz experienced a bit of a renaissance in ...
Stripling Remains True to Armstrong's Roots
"This music changed my life," said Byron Stripling, who paid homage to Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings from the Roaring '20s in an extraordinary concert last night in the Lincoln Theatre. Stripling, artistic director of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, led seven other musicians in 17 mostly great renditions of Satchmo's signature tunes from ...
Cirque Du Soleil 'Viva Elvis': It Has the Glitz, but Does It Capture Presley's Soul?
Like Cirque's Las Vegas take on the Beatles in “Love," “Viva Elvis" attempts to capture the magical spirit of one of rock 'n' roll's most mythic figures. But does the Canadian company succeed? Lewis notes that there are some striking musical numbers, including a military-themed treatment of “Return to Sender." He adds that Cirque made ...
Mr. Mellencamp Goes to Washington?
Singer's not likely to run for Senate seat, but Dems love his appeal In the wake of Evan Bayh's decision not to seek another term as a senator from Indiana, you could call it a sign of Democrats' dire need that some activists have launched a movement to draft singer John Mellencamp as a replacement candidate. ...
Manhattan Transfer Presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center
40th anniversaries are no longer a rarity in popular music, but they're usually accompanied by some degree of acrimony -- manifested in public sniping, separate buses and the like. But as they commemorate that milestone, the Manhattan Transfer haven't aired a shred of dirty laundry and -- as evidenced at the first night of their Gotham ...
Gordon Lightfoot Lives!
If you could read Gordon Lightfoot's mind right now, what a tale his thoughts would tell. On Thursday, the Canadian news media (not to mention the general population of the Twitterverse) was abuzz with apparent news that Mr. Lightfoot, 71, the smooth-voiced singer-songwriter of “Sundown" and “Carefree Highway," had died while on tour. But like the ...
Scorsese, Robertson Waltz on With 'Shutter'
Nontraditional score for dark thriller is longtime friends' latest collaboration “The Last Waltz" may have been a festive parting for the members of the Band, but for Martin Scorsese and Robbie Robertson, it was the opening number. Since directing Robertson and his bandmates in that famed 1978 concert film, Scorsese, 67, and Robertson, 66, have been ...
Trove of 68,000 Stolen Logons in Hands of 'Amateur' Hackers
A band of hackers who were recently discovered hoarding a trove of account logons pilfered from thousands of companies worldwide are garden-variety cyberthieves, security experts say. The gang most likely began by hiring spam specialists to send out e- mail and social- networking posts to lure recipients into clicking on a tainted Web link, says Don ...
Randy Newman at Royce Hall
Randy Newman's best, most pointed songs usually will come around again with enough time, timely once more either from history repeating itself, or mankind living up to his worst expectations. At his concert Friday for UCLA Live at Royce Hall, his quietly wounded and defiant “Louisiana 1927" told of another generation's devastating flood, but had new ...
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