The News Review:
- A Series That’s Music to Your Ears
- Music – ‘American Idol’ Finale Gives Power to the People – Review -…
- Comedy Music and More: Friday May 23
- More Chicago blues; blues photography
- Opera to disco: 3 Divas sing it all
A Series That’s Music to Your Ears
Washington Post – May 23, 2008
The 17-episode series originally broadcast in Britain in 1977 tackles the seemingly impossible and pulls it off with elan. Palmer a noted music journalist and filmmaker pulls together rare footage such as Billie Holliday performing a few weeks before her death and informative interviews with a wide range of people to tell the story. Blues country rock Tin Pan Alley protest music vaudeville Broadway musicals jazz and more all receive their due. Acquainted with legends as diverse as. The idea for the series reportedly came about at the suggestion of.
Music – ‘American Idol’ Finale Gives Power to the People – Review -…
New York Times – May 23, 2008
Archuleta even humorously as enemies plays into the prevailing ethos of pop music as a gladiatorial sporting event. The overall quality of music is much the worse for having been turned into spectator sport. Except for the two Davids this season’s contestants were an uninspiring group of singers whom Jimmy Kimmel during his brief pungent roast of the show and its judges on Wednesday accurately described as “19 weeks of karaoke. ” What’s right about “American Idol” is the way it holds up a mirror to American mass culture. Not since the heyday of… If pop music as reflected in “American Idol” resembles flavors of ice cream melting into a sweet milky soup the show’s vision of a mass culture in which rock pop country rhythm and blues and the conservative fringes of hip-hop and jazz blur is profoundly reassuring. The television pundits who thrive on conflict may wish otherwise but the show’s performers and audiences demonstrate that the American people are not at one another’s throats 24 hours a day. The show reveals the same deep-seated longing for agreement and consensus that can be felt in electoral politics nowadays underneath that cynical talking-head level. Because each show ends with a national election in which the audience can override the judges’ opinions it gives power to the people. It may all be bread and circuses but it is still democracy in action.
Comedy Music and More: Friday May 23
Providence Journal – May 23, 2008
$18 62+ $15 children 12 and younger $11. The Music Man Deering Middle School Players West Warwick High School Auditorium Webster Knight Drive West Warwick. Meredith Willson’s musical about a fast-talking con man who organizes a marching band… Mac Odom and Chill rhythm and blues and Motown Camille’s 71 Bradford St. (off Atwells Avenue) Providence. Joe Parillo jazz The Rhumbline 62 Bridge St.
More Chicago blues; blues photography
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 23, 2008
5em;’>By the way every once in a while someone asks why I don’t list shows by local bands thereby promoting the local scene a little more. I’d love to do just that especially since there are so many fine blues bands toiling in and around the city mostly because they really love the music. And that’s just the problem — there are too many. Alas there is but one BlueNotes and he has a day job. Plus his entire staff consists of.
Opera to disco: 3 Divas sing it all
Denver Post – May 23, 2008
” ’3 Mo’ Tenors’ was originally intended to be performed by African-American males but after that I just grew. I was like ‘Well what if there is a South African woman who can sing this or a Nordic woman? “The truth is more African-American women have been able to negotiate this minefield of music than any other women” Caffey added referring to soul blues and R&B. “But this show has always been open to anybody who walks into the room. ” So to Caffey smashing barriers is all about the music. “It’s a barrier that actually surrounds a lot of classical artists” he said. “They can probably venture as far as singing spirituals but that’s about it because the vocal technique for those is basically the same.