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...year ago, at age 64, with more than 40 years in the record business and a dozen Top 40 hits under her sequined belt, former Motown star Martha Reeves arrived at the moment every professional entertainer dreads. The phone didn't ring as often as before, and the concert bookings were thinning out. So Reeves did the same as millions of people in their 50s and 60s who are facing the end of a career they love: she looked around for a new one that could put to work the skills she had honed in her first. And that...
...reflection of life on any movie set. Or in any political campaign (Tanner '88, the TV series he concocted with Garry Trudeau, plays now like a prophetic parody of media manipulation by such masters as James Carville and Karl Rove). Or any reception (A Wedding), convention (H.E.A.L.T.H.), concert (Nashville), casino spree (California Split), couture opening (Ready to Wear), country weekend (Gosford Park) or old-time radio show (A Prairie Home Companion). Any social gathering, in fact, where people advance the friendly fraud of being themselves, where politics and showbiz overlap, where the action spills fro> m the stage into...
...choice is yours: catch the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs’ annual collaboration, or scope out the Harvard Krokodiloes and the Yale Whiffenpoofs at Memorial Church. Post-game, don’t fret: the Harvard Din and Tonics, the Radcliffe Pitches, and the Yale Spizzwinks perform in one concert, the Harvard-Yale Jamboree (clever title no additional charge). Glee Club Concert Fri., Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $8 for students. Kroks Concert Fri., Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. Memorial Church. Tickets $5 for students. Dins and Pitches Concert Sat., Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...much fun, and we got such a good response from the French community last year,” says Billings of last year’s HEMS concert of works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a well-known French baroque master who is, more or less, the musical “father” of Clerambault...
...Bhosle's modus operandi is still pretty much a game of hide-and-sing, but on Dec. 9 the graceful septuagenarian will step out from behind the silver screen to give a performance in Belgium, at the Centre for Fine Arts (Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles) in Brussels. The concert is part of a festival of Indian art and culture organized by bozar with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and it runs in Brussels through January. The festival also includes a rare retrospective of master filmmaker Satyajit Ray and ends with a performance from renowned tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain...