Enthusiasm and loyalty inspired by musical festivals; Composers participating in the Proms event from July 21 to September 16, 1995; Composer Maxwell Davies' fame as member of the `Manchester Group' composers; Benjamin Britten's creation of the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts. INSET: ...
Enthusiasm and loyalty inspired by musical festivals; Composers participating in the Proms event from July 21 to September 16, 1995; Composer Maxwell Davies' fame as member of the `Manchester Group' composers; Benjamin Britt...
But Land of Hope and Glory could be banned from one city's festival of remembrance - and replaced by the Rod Stewart hit Sailing. A senior Labour councillor is proposing the switch to the 1975 pop song - written by a Scot - after saying the classic by composer Sir Edward Elgar is to...
But one of my favorites was seeingArthur Millercrossing Third Avenue near my apartment on 70th Street. I was going one way and he was coming the other and I looked up and, “Oh my gawd, that’s Arthur Miller!” He was kinda looking at the ground and seemed lost in thought, so as ...
It is a huge production with amazing talent telling the story of the first American composer. The story is of a young man from Pittsburg who felt deeply the suffering and anguish of the enslaved people. His love of music drove him to paint the picture of those torments in song at a ...
The 20-years-old Jagger and Richards, still in their songwriting infancy, stretched to using their “Nanker Phelge” pseudonym on two lesser fillers but were justly proud of the gorgeously simple Tell Me, the first Stones track to bear their soon-to-be imperial composer credit. No less ...
Dorothy was also interested, and so we all trotted along to join the crowd under the open sky to listen to a program that included a new work by a Sicilian composer, George Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, and finally the centrepiece of the concert, his Piano Concerto. The performances were ...
This was Adele’s first ever arena concert on her first proper concert tour. She started the evening nervous but quickly found her stride. Her humour is infectious and she proved yet again that she really is one of us, totally unaffected by fame. ...
This oval-shaped tower with a window to the sky is the brainchild of American artist James Turrell, whose work reveals an obsession with light and space. Sphaera Salzburg A real attention-grabber on Kapitelplatz, this gigantic golden globe by German artist Stephan Balkenhol is topped by a stat...
You should be able to recount the plot, the arc, lots of key scenes, the actors, and parts of the dialog in detail. The movie should give you chills or goosebumps, or make you laugh yourself silly, or cry at some point — and in the best cases, several of the above....