Artist: Machine Men
Genre(s):
Metal
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Circus of Fools
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
Elegies
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Machine Men
Artist: Machine Men
Genre(s):
Metal
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Circus of Fools
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
Elegies
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Twisted Drive
Artist: Twisted Drive
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
The Endless Fall Of Dead Birds
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Liza Minnelli collapses during concert
Friday, 6 June 2008
Preview : Playing a fugue of his favourite things
Piers Lane is a familiar figure to concert-goers and the Australian pianist returns next week under the happiest possible circumstances, to give a recital."You don't have to make any compromises with a recital," he says. "You can play just as you want to. You are always fitting in with others for concertos and chamber music but, in a recital, you can be yourself and that's a great joy."Lane's Tuesday programme is what one might expect from a pianist who is an indefatigable traveller on the highways and byways of Romantic music. Liszt is there, but as much for his spirit as for his own music - all you will be hearing is his arrangement of the slow movement from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.Eugen d'Albert, whose arrangement of the great Bach C minor Passacaglia opens the evening, was Liszt's favourite pupil. "Liszt used to call him Albertus Magnus," Lane says. "And d'Albert went on to transcribe all the Bach organ works that his teacher didn't."Considering Lane has recorded a number of CDs of d'Albert's music for the Hyperion label, we can expect a definitive interpretation.
The Australian is thrilled to include Quasi-Faust by the eccentric Charles-Valentin Alkan. Again, this is a piece with crucial connections. "Alkan was Chopin's neighbour," Lane says, "as well as being a great friend of Liszt. In fact, the Quasi-Faust must have inspired the Liszt Sonata. It was written five years before the Liszt and shares some of the same melodic and rhythmic ideas."As for difficulty, the piece's title is a give-away. "It's demonic," he laughs. "It even has an eight-voice fugue."The second half of Tuesday's programme will be the complete cycle of Chopin Preludes, a rare privilege in this part of the world. "Everybody knows certain of the Preludes, but there are others that people won't recognise, as you don't get to hear them apart from as part of the whole set," Lane says. "They are a wonderful kaleidoscope of ideas and emotions and it's extraordinary to hear how Chopin feels about each major and minor key on the piano because he goes through all 24 just as Bach did in his Well-Tempered Clavier."Lane says he likes stories about the composers he plays and has thought about how Chopin might have played his own music. "Later in his life, he was frail. When he played in England towards the end, they complained they couldn't hear him at the back of the concert hall. In fact, his main criticism of other pianists was that they made the piano bark like dogs. He didn't like big-scale playing. His style was an intimate one; he drew people in rather than going out to meet them."PERFORMANCE Who: Piers LaneWhere and when: Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Epsom Girls Grammar School, Tuesday, (June 10), 7.30pm
The Australian is thrilled to include Quasi-Faust by the eccentric Charles-Valentin Alkan. Again, this is a piece with crucial connections. "Alkan was Chopin's neighbour," Lane says, "as well as being a great friend of Liszt. In fact, the Quasi-Faust must have inspired the Liszt Sonata. It was written five years before the Liszt and shares some of the same melodic and rhythmic ideas."As for difficulty, the piece's title is a give-away. "It's demonic," he laughs. "It even has an eight-voice fugue."The second half of Tuesday's programme will be the complete cycle of Chopin Preludes, a rare privilege in this part of the world. "Everybody knows certain of the Preludes, but there are others that people won't recognise, as you don't get to hear them apart from as part of the whole set," Lane says. "They are a wonderful kaleidoscope of ideas and emotions and it's extraordinary to hear how Chopin feels about each major and minor key on the piano because he goes through all 24 just as Bach did in his Well-Tempered Clavier."Lane says he likes stories about the composers he plays and has thought about how Chopin might have played his own music. "Later in his life, he was frail. When he played in England towards the end, they complained they couldn't hear him at the back of the concert hall. In fact, his main criticism of other pianists was that they made the piano bark like dogs. He didn't like big-scale playing. His style was an intimate one; he drew people in rather than going out to meet them."PERFORMANCE Who: Piers LaneWhere and when: Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Epsom Girls Grammar School, Tuesday, (June 10), 7.30pm
Friday, 30 May 2008
Ageing Beauties Team Up For Mature Model Challenge
Top models Beverly Johnson and Kim Alexis are joining forces to give the catwalk a more mature look as the hosts of a new reality TV contest for ageing beauties. Alexis will host She's Got The Look, while Johnson will serve as one of the show's three judges looking for new models aged 35 and older. Alexis tells the Los Angeles Daily News, "It's a chance to enhance women over 35 who still look good and feel good about themselves and want a second chance at something. "They may have stepped aside for family or for love, but always wanted to try it." She's Got The Look debuts on America's TV Land network on 4 June .
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Paul Winter Consort and Friends
Artist: Paul Winter Consort and Friends
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Discography:
Silver Solstice (Disc 2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Silver Solstice (Disc 1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 17
Suzette Leblanc - soprano, Daniele Forget - sopran
Corporations Cutting Back Pbs Funding
With corporations cutting back on sponsorships of public television broadcasts, NewsHour With Jim Lehrer is facing a possible funding crisis, the New York Times reported today (Monday). The recent loss of Archer Daniels Midland as a corporate sponsor removed $4 million from the show's budget, which varies from $26-28 million per year, the newspaper observed. Moreover, it added, other PBS programs may face similar funding challenges as corporations cut back on all forms of advertising and no longer make endowments to public TV. Recently, the Times reported, NewsHour sought and received four international reporting grants. Executive producer Linda Winslow insisted that the grants had been "a great success story," allowing the program to extend its overseas reporting. However, she conceded, "I would not pooh-pooh the fear that it becomes something that steers you to something you wouldn't already do."
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Spears getting more time with sons
The judge in the custody battle involving Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline has granted the singer more time with her sons as she continues to make progress in rebuilding her life.
Reuters reports that lawyers representing Federline told reporters that Spears' visitation rights had been extended but did not give further details.
At yesterday's closed hearing, a mental health expert gave an assessment of Spears.
Federline's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said: "We all see indicators of progress by Ms Spears."
"What was a seemingly daily state of extreme flux has been stabilised," he added.
The 26-year-old singer appeared at the court on time yesterday.
In a statement, her parents said: "We are so pleased at Britney's progress and we are very appreciative of the court's recognition of this progress."
Federline's spokesman, Elliott Mintz, told reporters that his client was pleased with yesterday's hearing.
Mintz said: "At the end of this saga he is hoping and believing that there will be two children who are raised in the company of the two people who love them."
Reuters reports that lawyers representing Federline told reporters that Spears' visitation rights had been extended but did not give further details.
At yesterday's closed hearing, a mental health expert gave an assessment of Spears.
Federline's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said: "We all see indicators of progress by Ms Spears."
"What was a seemingly daily state of extreme flux has been stabilised," he added.
The 26-year-old singer appeared at the court on time yesterday.
In a statement, her parents said: "We are so pleased at Britney's progress and we are very appreciative of the court's recognition of this progress."
Federline's spokesman, Elliott Mintz, told reporters that his client was pleased with yesterday's hearing.
Mintz said: "At the end of this saga he is hoping and believing that there will be two children who are raised in the company of the two people who love them."
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