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...Before It Hits Home” is the intensely powerful story of the last months of the life an African-American bisexual jazz musician and the dangerous double life he leads. The play’s broad range of sexual, cultural and medical themes will be sure to move anyone. The winner of the Helen Hayes Award for best new play is be presented by BlackCAST and will run for only one weekend. Tickets available from the Harvard Box Office. $6; $8 at the door. 8 p.m. Shows also Friday, Nov. 5 and Saturday, Nov. 6. Adams House Pool Theatre...
...success of the Electras. “He was the essential ingredient,” he says. “We, as a band, had tremendous fun together and that would not have been possible if we hadn’t worked together. John was a very resolute, dedicated musician...
...most naggingly catchy tunes in pop music--and, it turns out, one of the most controversial. The Lion Sleeps Tonight, featured in Disney blockbuster The Lion King, is based on the 1939 song Mbube, written by South African musician Solomon Linda. But Linda, a cleaner at a Johannesburg record company when he wrote the song, received virtually nothing for his work and died in 1962 with $25 in his bank account. His family is suing Disney for $1.5 million. Disney says it will fight the suit, but it's already paying off. Though not named in the suit, U.S. music...
...performance of Smile itself (and other Beach Boys hits, including one from Pet Sounds) was more equivocal than the concert’s sloganeering: Brian Wilson is clearly a more constrained musician than he once was. Where the Smile album succeeded in cloaking Wilson’s vocal limitations behind other singers and an excellent production, the live show necessarily did not. He ran out of breath during “Surf’s Up.” He was flat during “Vegetables.” Often, he simply delegated lyrics...
...group Nickel Creek, is almost certainly the most virtuosic mandolinist in the entire modern American roots scene, earning comparisons to David Grisman and other similarly luminary pickers. Especially on Not All Who Wander Are Lost, Thile’s 2001 solo album made with the help of such respected musicians as Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas, listeners were captivated by the mesmeric and natural quality of the tracks. However, Thile’s greatest strength—his mandolin chops—are far less well-represented on this album. Given that he plays every instrument on the album this...