Archive for the 'Concerts' Category

Jazz in Montreal

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

“Festival International de Jazz de Montréal ” - June 26 – July 6, 2008

I’ve always liked Montreal, Canada. Beautiful and graceful, this city always seems to have something going on – regardless of the weather. ( Montreal has finessed the whole concept [...]

A Glimpse of Belize & Andy Palacio

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I have to say a glimpse because I was in Belize for only one week and wasn’t even aware of the trip until two days before (not much time for researching). So, this past week, I had the pleasure and honor of working on Nyasha Liang’s documentary “Punta Rock”, about the musical culture in Belize. [...]

Yo-Yo * That Face!

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

As Yo-Yo Ma played, Joy, Passion, Rapture, all danced across the face of this great musician as he attacked Dvorák’s Cello Concerto during the “Live From Lincoln Center” gala on PBS last week. Intense.Then, when all done, he stood, the audience is released from his hold and a beautiful smile spreads across his face. Amazing.
Ma [...]

I Remembered Why I liked Him - Brian Stokes Mitchell

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” was running on PBS during their pledge weeks. It wasn’t the Mary Martin film of 1950’s, but a musical done “in concert”, all in character and full voice w/o sets, at Carnegie Hall. He starred as Emile the estate owner. The cast was great, but as always, Brian [...]

Yeah! Annie Yeh!

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

The best part about going to college was being introduced to a whole new crowd of people. Just as smart & fun as friends back home but with an entirely different background. When I was in college, I lived in a great big house with 6 other house-mates. One day, a bunch of us came [...]

Barbara Cook Sings Sondheim

Saturday, November 25th, 2006

Barbara Cook and Stephen Sondheim – amazing septuagenarians.
Ms Cook continues to sing, interpret and represent Broadway and its’ composers. Some famous, some not, but, “Broadway” nevertheless with all the marquee lights blazing.
When she sings Sondheim, who continues to create, she weaves the listener into the fabric of his bittersweet little song stories with such feeling [...]

Prince in Las Vegas - A New Frontier

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

The artist formerly known as, currently known as “Prince” will be performing in Las Vegas starting in November and thru 2007. Rather than see this as a sell out or commercialization of an esteemed performer - a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, tons of gold records – I was thrilled. [...]

The British Invasion

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Last night the Rolling Stones played to another packed crowd out in Glendale Arizona. It looked like some of the fans needed to be assisted in order to get to the concert and there were others that could easily have been Mick Jagger’s great great grand children. In a recent book about the Beatles, John Lennon [...]