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Archive for the ‘Music Types’ Category

June 20th, 2008

Artistic Fraud: Where Spectacle Meets Story

As we come back to following the progress of July 20th, the GREAT BLOG OFF around the globe, we come to Newfoundland, home of Artistic Fraud. Specializing in “chorus based work,” the group is directed by Jillian Keiley and Robert Chafe.
All About Numbers
As the video on their site will tell you, in the past 9 […]

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June 19th, 2008

North Korean Singer

A little bit of live singing from across the globe: we don’t get to hear much of the fine arts from North Korea, but I found this particular YouTube Video strangely compelling as the lovely waitress sang.

As part of the blog off, I think this is a good example of the value of the fine […]

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June 19th, 2008

Free Music from Julianne Hough of Dancing With the Stars

We all know and love Julianne Hough, the champion of Dancing with the Stars twice over. You probably are also aware that she has dipped her toes in the waters of recording stardom, with a debut album with tracks like

That Song in my Head
Jimmy Ray McGee
Hide Your Matches

You can hear excerpts and learn more over […]

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May 30th, 2008

An Inconvenient Truth: The Opera!

I swear, I couldn’t make this stuff up.
In the category of “stage to screen” I could probably somewhat justify Al Gore’s famous slideshow, An Inconvenient Truth. After all, it went on to become not just a book but also a Nobel-Peace-Prize winning movie. Well, ok, Mr. Gore got the prize, but it wasn’t for his […]

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March 6th, 2008

Classical Prudery: Vanessa Mae or Janine Jansen? Why not both?

This was going to be an entry about Janine Jansen, the virtuoso violinist reviewed in this article. I was excited by the fact that she seems to be leveraging the power of the web (”…downloads count for 75% of my Vivaldi recording’s sales.”) into supporting her career.
Then this statement caught my eye:
“…while Jansen won’t make […]

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February 12th, 2008

The Loss of a Friend

I’ve had the same guitar for about 13 years. Her name is Agemaki, after a kabuki character, appropriate for the Japanese-made Takamine guitar. I have ridden my bike miles with it to play at preschools with it strapped to my back; it has been my solace during breakups, and has been the source of joyous […]

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February 10th, 2008

The Ultimate Valentine: Slow Live Jazz

There’s a bit of a theme going in the B5Media entertainment community, where each blogger is supposed to write a valentine post. For people like the LOST and Soap bloggers, it’s a fun exercise of the imagination; you can just aske the question “Who would you like to be your valentine from the show?” The […]

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January 26th, 2008

Roller Derby with Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Gos

OK, this is stretching the “performance art” umbrella a little far, but I don’t get to do as much with the celebrity thing as my fellow bloggers here at B5Media, so I’ll take what I can get.
Tonight I’m going to be running a video camera for the Mad Rollin’ Dolls, the Madison Women’s Flat Track […]

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December 30th, 2007

Medicine Crow tonight at Magdalena’s Teahouse

I’m lucky enough to be in Lansing, MI tonight working with a web client, and she has invited me out to Magdalena’s Teahouse tonight to see Medicine Crow perform.
” Teaching himself the guitar at the age of twelve, Mike began playing earnestly, but being self-taught, it took him a lifetime to learn what theoried guitar […]

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December 28th, 2007

“The King Lear of Musical Scores”: Behind the Scenes of Sweeney Todd

I’m sure you’ll be able to hear this kind of thing on the DVD when it comes out, but meanwhile, here’s a nice treat: learning about the process of taking Sweeney Todd from stage to screen - including interviews with cast members, and more.
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