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...next album. “It really helps us when we’re working on new material to play [the songs] in front of a crowd first, because when we play them live, they develop into something different,” Donovan says in an interview before the concert...
With each new album, the band moves closer to capturing on record what they do in concert. Donovan says that the first record was “more experimental, and about us trying to find our sound and what we wanted to do. It’s the kernel for everything that comes after...
...Without her concert going on, the ice will probably be as good as it conceivably could be,” Mazzoleni said...
Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, one of the country's most prestigious conservatories, has nearly 50 alumni over 70 who still teach and perform on concert tours. "When Isaac Stern turned 70, we told him he was old enough to teach at Curtis," jokes the school's director, Gary Graffman, who at 75 remains a concert pianist...
Mann, on the other hand, thanks modern medicine and healthy practicing for the longevity of his career. He says he may be the only professional violinist still performing after undergoing two rotator-cuff surgeries. The great Jascha Heifetz ended his concert career when tendon weakness in his right arm prevented him from bowing properly. These days, medical specialists have myriad techniques for keeping performers in playing shape even as their bodies age and muscles weaken. Musicians with dystonia, for example, who often suffer from muscle spasms, now receive experimental new movement and drug therapies...