Working through a measure of George Walker’s “Lyric for Strings,” conductor Scott Speck cautions members of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra to think about the cues they take from one another: “You have to watch as much as listen, with this distance,” he says. It is the evening of Friday, Oct. […]
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Mark Gilbert is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering asset management. He previously was the London bureau chief for Bloomberg News. He is also the author of “Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.” Read more opinion Follow @ScouseView on Twitter Let’s hear it for the children. Photographer: […]
Salvation in a parking lot sounds like the name of a heartland rock anthem by Meat Loaf or Bruce Springsteen, not the unofficial 2020 theme song for Mainly Mozart. But after the coronavirus pandemic forced Mainly Mozart to postpone its annual June festival and all its April and May concerts, […]
Courtesy Aoife O’Donovan As America transitioned to “working from home,” musicians took up songwriting sessions on Zoom, live shows on YouTube, jam sessions uploaded to SoundCloud, and recording via a Dropbox full of LOGIC files—but is it truly working from home if you’re not getting paid? Nicole Atkins and her […]
For those of you who are curious or just want to relive the rockin’ adventure’s epilogue, we’ve broken down exactly what happens after the credits in Bill and Ted 3. Otherwise, click away now! The bodacious threequel is out now in cinemas and on-demand in the U.S. (check out our […]
Iconic UK music brand NME has launched in Asia, even as the entertainment industry is hit by the coronavirus. NME says its new Singapore-based website will deliver a fresh approach to the South East Asian music scene. The company says it will initially focus on Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines […]
What better way to celebrate the first Bill & Ted movie in 29 years than with a band that took the Nineties by storm? “My head is spinning, it’s the beginning of the end,” Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo sings in the hook of just-released song “Beginning of the End.” The […]
CLOSE Rainbow City in Caddo Common Park Shreveport Times Caddo Common Park’s spring, summer, and fall programming will launch this month, announced The Parish of Caddo Parks and Recreation Department and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council. Caddo Common Park is the city’s first programmable greenspace, located in the heart of Shreveport Common […]
In 2008, the year Kings of Leon dominated airwaves with one-two punch of ”Sex on Fire” and “Use Somebody,” a mysterious figure named Satoshi Nakamoto appeared online with an obscure idea for the first-ever truly digital form of money: bitcoin. More than twelve years later, the Southern Rock band is now […]
Brian Marcum, right, Music Theatre Wichita’s artistic director, will teach dance as part of the company’s online academy. He and Wayne Bryan are shown attending the National Alliance for Musical Theatre in Seattle in 2019. Courtesy photo As much as Music Theatre Wichita is known for its flashy mainstage shows, […]
Joe Walsh is available for all of your virtual concert needs. “If you ever wanna do a big event on the Internet, call us,” jokes the legendary Eagles guitarist, who was given a crash course in digital concert promotion when his annual VetsAid fundraiser moved online last month due to […]
Missing those live concerts? Louisiana’s Laine Hardy and Justin Garner both have scheduled online performances during the next two weeks. Country artist Hardy, of Livingston, will present virtual tour shows at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and on Jan. 28. Expect 2019 “American Idol” winner Hardy to sing his newest cover single, […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – When it comes to music education, there’s no such thing as a year off. Not in Cleveland. Convinced that the need for music now is greater than ever, the Cleveland Orchestra is finding new ways to comply with pandemic restrictions and meet Cleveland’s children safely where they […]
The Telegraph Stella Tennant wasn’t just another ‘fashion casualty’ The world of fashion is filled with beautiful people draped in luxurious clothes, photographed in desirable settings. Should you pass through the golden gates, you will live an especially feted life, millions of miles from the ordinary and mundane existence most […]
The story of a domestic violence survivor building her own house in Dublin, “Herself” captures a “moat of human connection that is as protective of the heroine as the walls they raise together,” Burr writes in a 3-star review. In co-screenwriter (with Malcolm Campbell) Clare Dunne’s “nuanced and heartfelt performance […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Charley Pride, country music’s first Black star whose rich baritone on such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” helped sell millions of records and helped make him the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. He was 86. Pride died […]
After growing up in Carbondale, singer-songwriter Andy Hackbarth spent time writing and performing between Nashville and Denver. For the past six years, he’s been gigging on cruise ships, which took him to fifty countries. While he probably won’t be playing at sea in the near future, he’ll have more time […]
Battle Creek — The exterior has signage for the Kendall Electric Inc., a couple of campaign yard signs and a black mailbox reading “131 Studios.” Co-owners Trenel Tatum and Derrick Freeman are photographed at 131 Collective Studios on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020 in Battle Creek, Mich. Travon Tatum, with older […]