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...perhaps the most simplistic song, but it’s also the most straightforwardly beautiful. The lines are literally punctuated by sighs. Strings swell to the song’s climax, piano tinkles in the background, and the whole song seems to swoon. In this same vein, the Yo La Tengo-esque “My Favorite Year,” with its pulsating drone, high-pitched echoes, and swirling piano, proves that Bejar can still write a six-minute epic that doesn’t sound a second too long.Closing track “Libby’s Sunrise?...
...Yahoo! Music soundstage, where they’re taping an acoustic set. Wallach sports a self-consciously edgy pair of red Levi’s, and when Drummey appears in the exact same pair of jeans, I take it as an attempt at color coordination a la The Hives. Then I recognize the pants from the swag booth of the previous night’s Levi’s–sponsored performance. In truth, the jeans aren’t a fashion statement; they’re an example of the spoils awaiting those who work hard and have...
...that "respect" is often a cover for pervasive corruption. Last month, police arrested a member of Calabria's regional council, Franco La Rupa, for alleged connections to 'Ndrangheta (he denies the charges); according to local reports, he is the fifth regional politician to be arrested for alleged Mob ties since...
When McGregor started work on Chroma in 2006, he had just finished directing Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas at La Scala in Milan. At the same time, New York choreographer Mark Morris had been directing another Purcell opera at London's Coliseum Theatre. Commissions like these illustrate the regard in which the world's top choreographers are held. Until very recently, choreographers were subcontracted to set the steps of the ballets that were traditionally inserted into operas, but never consulted as to wider direction. "The thinking had already been done," says McGregor. "You were just there...
OPERA IN MILAN One of the world's most renowned conductors comes to the world's most famous opera house when Daniel Barenboim leads the orchestra in a new production of Prokofiev's The Gambler at La Scala from June 16 to June 30. It starts with Alexei (played by Ukrainian Misha Didyk, hailed as "one of opera's most exciting young lyric tenors" by the BBC) gambling away diamonds belonging to his love Pauline (Latvian rising star Kristina Opolais), and things get magnificently tragic from there. www.teatroallascala.org by Mimi Murphy...