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...what's the Piano Man been up to lately? Writing classical music. Billy Joel's latest CD is a collection of 10 pretty solo-piano miniatures with such earnest titles as Invention in C Minor and Fantasy (Film Noir). Unlike Sir Paul McCartney's elephantine blunderings into the concert hall, these pieces are modest in scale, as well as unabashedly romantic, and pianist Richard Joo plays them as if they were spun gold. Alas, they sound like the work of a promising student so in love with Chopin and Liszt that he has yet to find his own voice...
...Yorkers wondered when they would ever have cause to party again. At the Robin Hood Foundation, executive director David Saltzman and his board organized both the party and the cause. The Oct. 20 Concert for New York City brought together an A list of performers that ran from Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger to Melissa Etheridge. In ticket sales alone, the televised concert generated $14 million; pledges from viewers are still being calculated...
...PAUL MCCARTNEY and rapper Jay-Z don't appear, at first glance, to have loads in common: one is the pushing-60 former Beatle who sang "Life Goes On"; the other is the thirtysomething former street hustler who sang Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem). But both performed without material reward Saturday at the Concert for New York City in Madison Square Garden, a benefit for Sept. 11 attack victims that McCartney headlined. A Woodstock's worth of musicians did their thing, including David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, the Who and Elton John. Short films by Woody Allen, Spike...
...Ralph Ellison to Jay McInerney, from the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley to current-day Big Apple hip-hoppers like Nas and Jay-Z. Some works help more than just artistic rebuilding, like the one taking place on October 20th at Madison Square Garden, where former Beatle Paul McCartney will headline "The Concert for New York City," an all-star musical celebration of the city (Elton John, Mick Jagger, Marc Anthony and David Bowie are also scheduled to perform). Pianist Thelonious Monk once said "Jazz is New York. You can feel it in the air." But there are also many...
MOVING ON This week TIME's pop-music critic, Christopher John Farley, looks at stars such as Paul McCartney who are doing benefits for the victims of Sept. 11, while senior editor Belinda Luscombe writes on how we need to laugh more. Read both, Tuesday, on time.com