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Archive for the ‘Music’ 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

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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April 11th, 2008

Darkness Breaks: A Sequel to Phantom? NO!!!

Say it isn’t so, Andrew.
Looks like Ben Elton, Glen Slater (of the Little Mermaid) and Sir Lloydd-Webber will be teaming up to pen a sequel - yes, that’s right, a sequel - to Phantom of the Opera.
While I have great faith in the talents of all three, this is much like Michael Bolton covering When […]

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February 17th, 2008

Presenting: Gray in Performance

I’ve mentioned several times that yes, aside from writing about performing arts, I do in fact perform in them as well. One of my venues is Foxy Veronica’s Peach Pies, where I do occasionally bawdy acts and songs (for example, I choreographed and perform “All I Care About” from Chicago with all the channeled Richard […]

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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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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

Missed in the Holiday Hubbub: Oscar Peterson, R.I.P.

Oscar Peterson, the legendary jazz musician, died on Sunday. He is special to me because it was hearing one of his pieces performed with his trio that made me understand, finally, what the big deal about Jazz was.
It was summer band camp, and I was taking, for the heck of it, a jazz piano class. […]

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December 25th, 2007

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day…

…their old familiar carols play…
Yesterday was a first for me. I’m no stranger to Christmas music - been singing it since I was a wee lad - but last night I accompanied my girlfriend to her church. Now, full disclosure here: by nature I am a Zen Buddhist, and the only reason I can say […]

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December 23rd, 2007

Review: Sweeney Todd

Ok, first things first: Yes, it’s Christmas, and yes, Johnny Depp has played Willy Wonka and Jack Sparrow and even Gilbert Grape and Benny and all manner of likeable characters.
This, however, is not one of them. So unless you are ready to see a musical with the graphic portrayal of a serial killer literally splattering […]

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December 22nd, 2007

Finding the Finale of Clash of the Choirs

Jennifer asked in the comments for ways to see the finale, and while I don’t know of any way to watch the whole thing (NBC.com doesn’t replay the show on the web as it will for a lot of other shows) you can go to Youtube and type in “Clash of the Choirs” finale and […]

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