Results for "Michael Ricci"

Ambassador, University Fellow & World Traveler Julie Fowlis Releases 'Uam' on March 9th

February 21, 2010

Whispers from the Islands: The World of Gaelic Singer Julie Fowlis Comes of Age on Uam The shushing that leads a cow to give bountiful milk. The beat and pounding of tweed on the table. The whisper of a wry lover trying to sneak in his beloved's window. These sounds, once endangered, lie at the heart ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Nina Simone

February 21, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Nina Simone's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Nina SimoneEunice Waymon was born in Tryon, North Carolina as the sixth of seven children in a poor family. The child prodigy played piano at the age of four. With the help of her music ...

Correspondence: Post-Katrina Videos

February 20, 2010

Rifftides reader Lauren Kesner O'Brien writes from New Orleans: I'm the founder of a new video magazine, telegraph21.com, and am contacting you because all week we are featuring great videos about jazz and New Orleans. In particular I thought today and tomorrow's video feature, The Sound After the Storm, featuring well known musicians Lillian Boutt and ...

Under Your Skin Interviews: Ron Carter

February 20, 2010

Celebrating Chopin's 200th Birthday at the Zipper

February 20, 2010

Evening of Music and Poetry celebrating Chopin's 200th Birthday The Paderewski Music Society and Modjeska Cultural Club present an all Chopin program. Poetry about the composer and his music will be recited by actress Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle"). February 27th : 7 p.m. Zipper Concert Hall 200 S Grand Ave., ...

Riccardo Chailly and the World's Oldest Orchestra at Disney Hall

February 20, 2010

The sunny Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly has a knack for landing where youd least expect him and making a go of it. He is music director of what used to seem the eternally starchy Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. They began a U.S. tour with a Beethoven date in the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday night. This ...

Ted Nash - Portrait in Seven Shades

February 20, 2010

We are thrilled for Ted Nash and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for presenting Jazz & Art II at the Rose Theater on February 4-6, featuring Nash's Portrait in Seven Shades. The concept of fusing jazz & art is used as the basis for this multi- media experience. These iconic paintings are reinterpreted through seven ...

Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie Pass 'We Are the World' Baton

February 20, 2010

Producer Quincy Jones, singer Lionel Richie and producer Rickey Minor gathered for the We Are the World: 25 for Haiti recording session at Jim Henson Studios in Hollywood. A changed planet, new orbit and bigger galaxy of stars. For Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie, the second revolution of We Are the World, launched Friday, easily matches ...

A Night in Berlin the Jazz Age at Royce Hall

February 20, 2010

Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester. It's the sound of romance. Horns sing with reeds and strings, seeming to set the very air dancing to the rhythms of waltzes, fox trots and pasodobles. A man, dressed impeccably in tie and tails, steps up to a mike and, in a focused, rounded falsetto, completes the close, perfect ...

Please Rob Me: The Dangers of Online Oversharing

February 20, 2010

The Dangers of Online Oversharing. Think before you tweet. You might not be aware of how much information you're revealing. That's the message from the founders of Please Rob Me, a website launched on Tuesday that illustrates just how easy it is to rob people blind on the basis of the information they're posting on the ...