Word: concert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the crowd that filled the Orpheum Theatre looked like a combination of displaced Phish followers and graying Deadheads still mourning the death of Jerry, they brought a kind of enthusiasm that is only found in smoke-filled concert halls. As Victor Wooten, legendary bassist for the Flecktones, threaded his way through the masses outside the enterance unnoticed, I began to wonder if anybody knew exactly what they were there for, or if what they were smoking was really that good. Of course, it could have something to do with the fact that Wooten is about 5'4" and just...
...formed during our own disjointed renditions of The Twelve Days of Christmas and O Come All Ye Faithful in primary school. As the Vienna Choir Boys performed a sophisticated repertoire of Haydn, Isaak, Bruckner, Schubert, Salieri and Mozart, they brought fifth graders to rare musical heights. But while the concert was supposed to promote the talent of child singers, it might have inadvertently done something else--and affirmed the supremacy of adults...
...early bird catches the worm, and in this case, rising early on a Saturday will yield its own rewards. Tickets for Billy Joel's concert at the Fleet Center on December 3rd go on sale at 10 a.m. Though they'll cost a pretty penny, who wouldn't put their last dollar down to hear a live rendition of "We Didn't Start the Fire" from the Piano Man himself? Call 931-2000 for ticket information...
...party party boy," brought her modest renown, mostly in her native Canada and mostly (one presumes) among people there who don't read lyric sheets. After her uninspired 1992 follow-up, Now Is the Time, which included a wistful song about standing in the rain outside a Rod Stewart concert, her career stalled. But Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill (1995), her first for Madonna's Maverick records, was her breakthrough. On it she no longer portrayed herself as a peppy pop princess but as a brash young woman with demands, demons--and desires. This new Morissette craved "intellectual...
Gene Simmons, the bassist for Kiss, is kicking off the band's new tour with a Halloween-night concert...