Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sadly, however, the venue in which most of the world's hip hop listeners live the music is at the shows where signed artists come to a town near you to perform their album material. Put simply, next to the cozier, more covert settings of what we can loosely term the "underground," such shows are just weak-wack. Typical rap artists either stand on stage with nothing entertaining to deliver except the mere presence of their stardom (e.g., Jay-Z), or they riddle their acts with gimmicky stage props or too many cohorts (e.g., Nas, Wu-Tang). Or they repeat...
Richard III is not by any means an easy play to perform, and the dedication of this cast and production crew to stretching its complexities even further must be admired. However, in the end one feels that perhaps the entire production is overdone and would have been more effective in choosing one or two of the three twists on the traditional play instead of all three...
Richard III is not by any means an easy play to perform, and the dedication of this cast and production crew to stretching its complexities even further must be admired. However, in the end one feels that perhaps the entire production is overdone and would have been more effective in choosing one or two of the three twists on the traditional play instead of all three
Last Friday evening Krystian Zimerman played before an audience that was suspicious of his tendency to cancel at the last minute. In the fall he bailed on an engagement to perform a Rachmaninoff concerto with the BSO and left many ticketholders scowling and cursing. This time around, playing explosively, he left ticketholders smiling and cursing the absence of a second encore...
...there are so many aspects of the cultural movement, the perpetuation may simply be the emphatic: I am hip hop. To excel in the industry, to perform well, to be critical--all are challenges to the gloomy view of hip hop's future. KRS-One has collaborated with Puffy, he has performed with Zoch de la Rocha from Rage Against the Machine, he encourages material and commercial success as well. He begins I Got Next with the lines "it's not a novelty, you can love your neighbor, without loving poverty...