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A Look Inside the Renovated Concert Hall at Lincoln Center
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, ...
How Working Musicians Try to Make Themselves Recession-Proof
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 ...
American Apparel Slams Woody Allen's Sex Life
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 ...
Memories Fading on Vegas icon Liberace
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 ...
Famous Record Producer Must Serve at Least 18 Years of a Mandatory Life Sentence
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 ...
Bill Evans, Rachmaninoff and Van Cliburn
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, ...
Spector Jury Has Reached a Verdict/ Guilty of second-degree murder
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 ...
Improv, Techno-Tricks and a Bach Framework
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 ...
Devotional and Experimental Jazz with a Norwegian Accent
Avant-garde jazz has almost always had its sacramental side. There’s a reason for the devotion that some listeners bring to the mid-1960s music of John Coltrane, or to the output of his fellow saxophonist Albert Ayler. The spirituality in these performances wasn’t subtext or suggestion; it radiated out from a fervent core. Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, an ...
Life-Time Recording Agreement Reached Between Grammy Winning Jazz Pianist Hal Galper and Origin Records
In an unprecedented move virtually unheard of in the recording business, Origin Records CEO John Bishop has announced an exclusive agreement to release all future recordings by veteran pianist Hal Galper. Says Galper, “I warned John Bishop that my mother is 96 and still going strong, and I have her genes. That being the case, now ...
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