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Birthdays on the Tube: 30 January-6 FebruaryFriday, 29 January 2010
This week's birthdays include a trio of incandescent rock legends – Axl Rose musing about recording a triple album and sacking his drummer, Alice Cooper on corrupting the youth, and Nigel Tufnel, lead guitarist of Spinal Tap, pushing the amp up to... Read more... |
Vox Pop: The V&A - Musical Instruments or Fashion?Thursday, 28 January 2010
The Victoria and Albert Museum intends on 22 February to disperse its collection of musical instruments to other venues, to allow more room for fashion and textile exhibits. Conductor Christopher Hogwood and composer Oliver Knussen are two more... Read more... |
BBC joins opera talent huntMonday, 25 January 2010The BBC launched today its own popular opera talent hunt (details below), while ITV's Popstar to Operastar has suffered heavy critical attack and disappointing public ratings. The BBC's Commissioning Editor for Music and Events, Jan... Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube: 24-30 JanuarySaturday, 23 January 2010
This week, the great Brazilian songwriter Tom Jobim, in a duet with Elis Regina, as well as teaching jazzer Gerry Mulligan bossa nova and in a version by Ryuichi Sakamoto. It's also the birthday of songwriter Robert Wyatt, and trip-hop pioneer... Read more... |
Kate McGarrigle, 1946-2010Friday, 22 January 2010
I’m no folky but I fell for the songs of Kate and Anna McGarrigle the moment I first heard their album Dancer with Bruised Knees, and it’s remained a companion ever since. It never struck me that their songs and the eclectic backing music was "folk... Read more... |
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Birthdays on the Tube: 17-23 JanuarySaturday, 16 January 2010
An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. This week's include gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhart, who would have been 100 this week, Simon Rattle enthusing about Mahler and talking about the Berlin Philharmonic going digital, Roy Plomley... Read more... |
Edward Hall, new artistic director of Hampstead TheatreWednesday, 13 January 2010
Hampstead Theatre today revealed the identity of their new artistic director. Edward Hall will take over at the end of this month when Anthony Clark steps down after seven years in the post. “Hampstead Theatre and I share a passion for finding new... Read more... |
Eric Rohmer 1920-2010Monday, 11 January 2010
Eric Rohmer, who died yesterday in Paris aged 89, was famed for elegant, literate, yet profoundly romantic and erotic dramas such as La Collectionneuse, My Night With Maud and Claire's Knee; and for a style that helped define the French Nouvelle... Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube: 10-16 JanuarySunday, 10 January 2010
An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. This week Don Van Vliet, also known as Captain Beefheart, in a fascinating 1997 documentary made by John Peel, master drummer Gene Krupa, singer Long John Baldry on a TV special hosted by the... Read more... |
Lhasa de Sela 1972-2010Tuesday, 05 January 2010
The singer Lhasa de Sela passed away from breast cancer in her Montreal home on 1 January just before midnight, at the age of 37. Since this news emerged my email box has had numerous messages about this tragic loss, including from theartsdesk... Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube: 3-9 JanuarySunday, 03 January 2010An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. 7 January 1907: This week, by cosmic or other coincidence, has the birthdays of four composers who wrote some of the most interesting 20th-century music for the piano. Francis Poulenc here plays... Read more... |
