Nice to see Dave Brubeck get a well-deserved honor yesterday…the legendary jazzman came to Washington DC to honored with the Ben Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy – a sort of “lifetime achievement” award for Americans going abroad…and he plays a moving Chopinesque piece, inspired by a long-ago trip to Poland..
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Bravo for Brubeck
Posted in Arts & Culture, Composers, Cultural Diplomacy, Jazz, Milestones, Musicians, Pianists, Politics, tagged Chopin, Condoleeza Rice, Dave Brubeck, Jazz on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Play in Subway, Win Pulitzer…
Posted in Arts & Culture, Classical Music, Composers, Culture, Literature, Milestones, Music Media, Musicians, Print Media, Recordings, Vocalists, tagged Bob Dylan, Carnegie Hall, David Lang, Gene Weingarten, Hans Christian Andersen, Joshua Bell, Pulitzer Prizes, Washington Post on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not quite one year to the day it was published, funnyman writer Gene Weingarten’s celebrated story about Joshua Bell busking in the Washington Metro wound up as one of six Pulitzer Prizes won by the Washington Post today – an impressive and near-record haul. Even though the little social experiment was in [...]
When Bad Names happen to Good Bands
Posted in Comedy, Humor, Movies, Musicians, Pop Music, Rock'n'Roll, blogging, tagged All Songs Considered, Bob Boilen, Death Cab for Cutie, Eric Idle, Monty Python, Neil Innes, The Dodos, Toad The Wet Sprocket on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Funny blog post today by Bob Boilen of All Song Considered about Bad Band Names…a perpetual source of amusement for musicheads. What got Bob going was a band called The Dodos, whowere DOA until he heard them play at South by Southwest in Austin.
Of course, poorly-named bands have been around since [...]
Miscellaeneous Musings: the NY Phil, Howard Theatre, WYPR, No Depression, Pete Seeger…
Posted in Arts & Culture, Baltimore, Classical Music, Critics, Cuba, Cultural Diplomacy, Digital Media, Gaming, Music Media, Musicians, Politics, Pop Music, Print Media, Public Television, Talk Radio, Washington DC, orchestras, public radio, technology, tagged All Things Considered, Cuba, Digital Cafe, Howard Theatre, John Schaefer, Marc Steiner, Milwaukee Symphony, New York Philharmonic, NPR, PBS, Pete Seeger, Radio One, Video Games, WHYY, WYPR, Youth Radio on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Any resemblance to Mike “I Was Just Thinking….” Barnicle is purely coincidental….
Kind of amazing to hear the wall-to-wall media coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea….startling and gratifying to hear snippets of the New World Symphony in the middle of network newscasts. Worth reading: Anne Midgette’s column in the WaPo on this [...]
Life imitates….Video Games? The Guitar Zeroes
Posted in Digital Media, Gaming, Musicians, Pop Music, Rock'n'Roll, technology, tagged Guitar Hero, Guitar Zeroes, sacred harp, shape note, technology on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am perhaps the only person in the blogoverse to look at this and think immediately of the shape-note singing tradition that was developed in America in the 19th century. Back then, they used differently-shaped notes to teach people who couldn’t read music to sing; today, thanks to Guitar Hero, all [...]
Concert Previews for Winter/Spring 2008
Posted in Classical Music, Concert Previews, Conductors, Musicians, Pianists, Washington DC, orchestras, tagged Concert Previews, Gilmore Festival, WPAS on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the most fun I have is doing a number of Concert Preview conversations for the subscribers to the Washington Performing Arts Society and other performing-arts organizations in the D.C. area. Here’s what I’ve got on tap so far for the Winter/Spring of 2008:
Sunday, February 3, 3:00 pm Kennedy [...]
Avant Gershwin
Posted in Digital Media, Holidays, Jazz, Milestones, Music Media, Musicians, Radio, Vocalists, public radio, tagged Bruce Springsteen, George Gershwin, Junior Senior, Kennedy Center, Michael Abene, Mike Ricchiutti, New Year's Eve, NPR, Patti Austin, Toast of the Nation, USA Today, WDR Big Band on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WASHINGTON – The reason I’m posting from downtown D.C. this morning has to do with the lady on the left — jazz vocalist Patti Austin, who helped to usher in the New Year with a dynamic all-Gershwin concert at the Kennedy Center last night. Patti’s two-set show, backed by a crackerjack octet [...]
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