As you read this, the 91st Annual Academy Awards are underway and it was an awesome surprise to learn that the legendary members of Queen + Adam Lambert were going to open up the ceremony. The band delivered their seminal hits “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions” from thei...
Known for their signature West Coast harmonies and love of melody, Wheatley had plans for the band to tour the USA — which they did in November 1976. He had cut his teeth as a musician in The Masters Apprentices before he moved into band ...
pianist, and flutist, as well as a hugely influential teacher and music figure, Karmanov was a member of the rock band Vezhlivy Otkaz from 2000 until 2017. This performance of Karmanov’s 1993 composition “Birthday Present For Myself”, recorded in ...
The rapper-turned-flutist isbeginning another tour this weekin support of his debut solo recording, last year’sNew Blue Sun. The two-month North American jaunt will feature André and his band — Carlos Niño,Nate Mercereau, Surya Botofasina, and Deantoni Parks — performing the kind of ...
As Opera Today’s Anne Ozorio wrote in her masterful review of a 2018 presentation by Dutch National Opera: … Géricault was painting when the wreck of the Medusa was still raw political scandal. The rich had left the poor to die. What Géricault depicted was not lost on audiences at ...
Every day for the past two weeks I have told myself, “Today’s the day I’m going for a walk in the woods” and then darkness falls, and I’m still sitting at my computer, writing or grading, or lying down nursing poor health, or dusting for the billionth time, and I think: ...
Along with being a composer, pianist, and flutist, as well as a hugely influential teacher and music figure, Karmanov was a member of the rock band Vezhlivy Otkaz from 2000 until 2017. This performance of Karmanov’s 1993 composition “Birthday Present For Myself”, recorded in Paris in ...