Moliner is a gripping storyteller, creating a sense of suspense at the beginning and then moving in several unexpected directions, swerving from Ligeti-like whimsy (musicians doubling on harmonicas feature among the sound world, along with whistles and birdcalls) to dead-serious intensity as if ...
Although he had been in treatment for some years, she recalls that her husband anticipated being able to complete Shing Kham up until his last bout of illness, which arrived suddenly and unexpectedly. Several other projects on the horizon – including an orchestral song cycle he planned to ...
had her first son,, last October, and now she is sharing her personal struggle about conceiving her son. In a picture of a note, the 35-year-old actress writes that she struggled for 8 years and had 5 miscarriages before her pregnancy with James. ...
before, but he has a pretty intuitive understanding of the phenomenon, the all-purpose internet descriptor for what happens when a marriage becomes a part of a meme. “i feel like i’ve seen some of those, and some of them make me really cringe,” the singer, born thomas rhett akins,...
Happy new year 2008 from South Africa. My wife and I decided to fly south for the winter and visit our good friends Mark and Sarah in Cape Town. We spent the stroke of midnight in an airplane somewhere over the ocean west of Brazzaville, Congo and south of Sao Tome. After our 22 hou...
It is also possible for that same consumer/fan to hear an early Aaliyah song—say, for example, “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number”—and recall how they felt at the time and place of first listen, whether they were happy, sad, in love, or at risk. Likewise, a celebrity sighting ...
Also known as the “squat and squint” meme, the photo showing a squinting woman staring at something in the distance actually came from an outtake of a Instagram shot thatwent viral in March2018. Since then, the picture has been applied to any circumstance that the poster finds unbelievable...
friends. I guess you can kind of over-collaborate sometimes, but I love it. There’s nothing like getting into the studio, and recording a song with a good friend. I’ve gotten to watch Danielle grow into an amazing artist and entertainer, and it’s been great – especially on th...
Music of Remembrance’s next live concert at Benaroya Hall on March 19, 2023 features mezzo soprano Sasha Cooke in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’sIntonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope, a dramatic song cycle that was inspired by these historic instruments. The songs imagine the stories th...
“All we do is sing songs,” says Taylor Mac about Bark of Millions, the new show he and composer Matt Ray have created together with their team of like-minded collaborators. “But there’s something about the ritual of song after song after song inspired by different queer people from wo...