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Influences: Composer Philip Glass
Culture MonsterComposer Philip Glass talks about his major influences.... -
Fifteen suppositions from John Maus on art, music, blowing up cities on film and Ariel Pink
Pop & HissJohn Maus, the synthpunk artist based in Minnesota, is a thinking man’s musician, spouting off theory gleaned from his years studying music composition at CalArts and politics and aesthetics at the European Graduate School, where both filmmaker Atom... -
Dispatch from New York: John Lennon and Karlheinz Stockhausen, together at last
Culture MonsterWhen I tell you that "1969," an evening of music, video and theater performed Thursday at the Zankel Hall in New York, and based on the prospect that John Lennon and iconoclastic German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen planned to stage a...... -
Book review: 'Frank: The Voice' by James Kaplan
Los Angeles TimesSome years ago, I shared a barber with the late Mel Tormé. It was a small, low-key shop where the talk was usually sports and the music on the radio was always jazz or vocals from the American Songbook. One morning, Tormé and I found ourselves pausing...Tags: Jerry Lewis, The Godfather (movie), Jazz (genre), Tommy Dorsey, Poetry
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Dispatch from Fez: Sounds and scenes from the World Sacred Music Festival
Culture MonsterThe labyrinthine Arab-style medina of Fez, Morocco’s historical capital of trade, culture and religious life, was a remarkable space for the 16th Annual World Sacred Music Festival June 4-13. The expansive and diverse event, with about 60 performances,... -
A lively, good time in Bisbee
Reporting from Bisbee, Ariz.About 100 miles southeast of Tucson is the historic gold and copper mining town of Bisbee. The once-bustling city has been transformed into an artisan community, with an almost cult-like following among returning tourists. In a town historically...Tags: University of Cincinnati, Education, Dining and Drinking, Stock Broking, Stock Market
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'Dollhouse': Alexis Denisof, and yeah, we're still tracking it
Show TrackerThe first time I spoke to Alexis Denisof, he was walking down the streets of New York City ... and we got cut off. Despite the hustle and bustle around him, he tried to answer questions, but was silenced as...... -
Live review: Dirty Projectors at Disney Hall
Pop & HissLeading his band Dirty Projectors on Saturday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, David Longstreth kept folding his long, gangly frame toward the floor, as though he were trying to avoid being noticed. The Brooklyn group released one of last...... -
New CDs: Bun B, Flobots, Abigail Washburn, Danielia Cotton
Bun B
"II Trill" (Rap-A-Lot/Asylum)
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IN THE months since the death of rapper Pimp C, Bun B, his partner in the legendary Southern rap group UGK, has popped up on nearly every high-profile remix to hit the Internet, with each of his verses...Tags: Death, China, Iraq War (2003-2011), Wars and Interventions, Led Zeppelin (music group)
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Yo-Yo Ma takes listeners to Brazil, Argentina and beyond
Was it jazz? Classical? Tango? Folk? All the above – and then some – probably comes closest to describing the rush of soft-spoken sounds that cellistYo-Yo Maand a small group of similarly open-eared, open-minded musicians played Sunday...
Tags: Culture, Concerts, Brazil, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Nicholas Payton's daring big-band experiment
Nicholas Payton long ago established his hyper-virtuosity as trumpeter, as well as his prowess on an array of musical instruments.
But no performance project has illuminated the breadth of his vision as dramatically as the flawed but fascinating big-band...Tags: Culture, Concerts, Music, Entertainment, Duke Ellington
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Fulcrum Point music series kicks off in Harvard crimson
With four of the city's leading contemporary music ensembles — the Fulcrum Point New Music Project, MusicNOW, eighth blackbird and Contempo — all affiliated with the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the underground concert hall at...Tags: Concerts, Samuel Beckett, Music, David Foster, Entertainment
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