Word: musication
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...past year has been a momentous one for American-Jewish-Taiwanese singer Alisa Galper. After her win on the Taiwan talent show One Million Star (the island's answer to American Idol), she was quickly signed by Universal Music Taiwan, who immediately began touting her as "Asia's Rihanna." The comparison isn't too fanciful, and what she lacks in the Barbadian singer's rhythmic ease, she makes up for in range and diversity...
Whenever FlyBy goes to symphony concerts, it is always distressing to see a slew of gray- and white-haired heads in front of FlyBy—and very few young people. It is also distressing to hear one's hometown classical music station begging for donations, explaining (subtly but not) that their fundraising base is literally dying...
...really can’t make it in time, you can always head to the Scullers Jazz Club (400 Soldiers Field) tonight to hear Kurt Elling sing the music of Johnny Coltrane and John Hartman. Tickets are $28, and there are shows at 8 and 10 p.m. Get the details here...
...Putting It Together” is the musical theater equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster. Just as Igor was dispatched to gather brains, arms, and legs from graves, so too does writer Stephen Sondheim pull together parts of other works to form a completely new whole. Opening tonight in the Loeb Experimental Theater, this revue of Sondheim’s work aptly combines songs from disparate musicals to form a “Reader’s Digest” of his oeuvre. For the director and cast, it’s simultaneously a simple, bountiful musical buffet...
...Emma, Forever Ago,” the 2007 debut album written, performed, and produced by Wisconsinite Justin Vernon. Part of the success of the album was the stark and at-times haunting instrumentation that supported his hymnal voicing. In Vernon’s newest project, an entirely new musical setting from the one established in “For Emma” surrounds these same vocal styles, yet it is just as moving. “Unmap,” is a collaboration with the Milwaukee-based instrumentalists Collection of Colonies of Bees (CoCoB), released under the name Volcano Choir...