Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contemporary political battles. I do not possess the expertise to pass judgment on the meaning of the decade. But its legacy is an entirely different matter. It has less to do with what the decade actually meant, and more to do with what those 16-year-olds at the concert believe it meant. Those who remember the '60s favorably herald the decade as a triumph of progressive reform and popular empowerment. Maybe it was. But what are we left with...
Bailyn, will give a lecture entitled '"To Begin the World Anew': Politics and the Creative Imagination." The talk is scheduled for March 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington...
...together. This is healing music about magic and love, racism and reincarnation, late-night parties and Afro picks. Badu's voice is a natural wonder, sharp and metallic, wounded and sad, yearning for empathy in one song, decrying injustice in the next. Her brilliant companion CD, Live, which captures concert performances of the songs on Baduizm, shows she's more than another '90s studio creation. She's the most thrilling new voice...
...ever pragmatic Tibetan has responded to this predicament by taking his cause directly to the world, traveling almost constantly (on a refugee's yellow "identity certificate"), answering questions in 20,000-seat pop-concert halls about everything from Jack Kevorkian to TV violence, and letting his speeches be broadcast live on the floor of London dance clubs. This has led to the unlikely sight of a "simple monk" (as he always calls himself)--born and raised in a culture that had scarcely seen a Westerner when the century began--now seeming as visible, and even as fashionable, a figure...
...warmth with which it was sung added to the general feeling of joy among the singers, reached out to the listeners. And at last, after a joint audience/choir rendition of the old favorite, "Silent Night," the audience gave the singers and conductors the ovation they deserved for a superb concert and a lovely way to begin the holiday season...