Word: concertized
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...working. Fewer than 200 radio stations around the country played Christian pop 10 years ago; now there are more than 500. According to some estimates, the sale of Christian pop concert tickets and record sales generated between $750 million and $900 million in revenues last year. Fans are young and old; many are religious, but some just like the music. "There's more money and better distribution than there was two or three years ago," says Billy Ray Hearn, chairman and CEO of EMI Christian Music Group. "We're reaching more audiences through mass marketing at Wal-Marts...
Audiences cared for him, though. He had been a star since 1946, when he and Lewis teamed up in a musical-comedy act. For a decade they dominated nightclubs, concert stages, films and TV, while Dean's record--That's Amore, Memories Are Made of This--went gold. When the duo split, Martin rebounded as a solo movie star and, for a few years, a fine actor. He had more hit tunes in the '60s and '70s, anchored a nine-year TV franchise, appeared whenever he felt like it in casinos with his Rat Pack pals. Last week, after...
DIED. SHURA CHERKASSKY, 84, classical concert pianist; in London. The Odessa-born prodigy brought emotional fire and interpretive panache to the Romantic repertoire of Chopin and Rachmaninoff...
...days before a highly publicized concert that despite featuring mimes was supposed to give a much needed shot in the arm to his career, it was MICHAEL JACKSON himself who was getting medical help. The singer collapsed while rehearsing and was rushed to the hospital, where his doctors diagnosed a viral infection; diarrhea had led to severe dehydration, which in turn caused an irregular heartbeat and dangerously low blood pressure. Wife Lisa Marie, sister Janet and mother Katherine rushed to the star's bedside, but it wouldn't be the Jackson family without sniping from LaToya, who first intimated that...
...highlight of Friday night's concert was undoubtedly the band's performance of Duke Ellington's challenging Far Fast Suite (1966, recorded on RCA-Bluebird). As anyone who has listened to the suite knows, the places referred to both in the titles of the movements and in the music itself are not in the Fat Fast at all, but rather in the Middle East Iran and India-places such as Amad, Istahan, Agra and Delhi. Only the last movement. "Ad Lib on Nippon" is a musical reaction to an East Asian region. Geographical discrepancies aside, the synthesis of Duke Ellington...