Word: concertizer
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...recordings and in concert, her low, tremulous instrument is backed by a band consisting of a 12-string Portuguese guitar and a Spanish guitar, the traditional fado instruments, and a bass guitar. The 12-string guitarist, Custodio Castelo, is Branco's husband as well as her chief collaborator in songwriting. She presents him with a poem she likes, usually Portuguese, and the two of them craft it into song...
...covered in warm blankets of shadows. It has been a season of heat--the sugarcane crop is shriveling for lack of rain, the streets are dusty and dry, and tensions are simmering. Last month there were riots as citizens clashed with police. Last night, at a Montego Bay concert, there was gunfire, a stampede, injuries...
Resistance's sales are strong overseas, where hate movements--and hate music--are on the upswing. Among the label's top markets: France, Greece, Poland and Germany--despite German hate-speech laws. The Resistance website reflects the label's internationalist bent, promoting a concert in Bologna, Italy, with hate-rockers from across the Continent, and an "Adolf Hitler Memorial Gig" in Serbia...
...House through their windows in part because four of the sophomores live in what they like to call the Eliot Four Man Suite. Lino Pertile, co-master of the House, welcomed the band, along with Invisible Downtown and Second Act (also Eliot affiliates), after attempts to organize a larger concert on the steps of Memorial Church were foiled by a seemingly un-hip (or tragically constrained) dean...
...haven for terrorists. But that would require tens of thousands of allied troops deployed in an open-ended commitment to keep a heavy troop presence in an extremely unfriendly environment. If the decision is made to take down the Taliban, that may be more likely to be attempted in concert with its regional enemies - including Russia and possibly even Iran - in support of the Northern Alliance opposition forces...