The Live Music Report
March / April 2009 |
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| Les Jeunes Soloistes |
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... All parts and all languages are sung simultaneously as the piece goes along at prosodic speeds ...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Routes to Peace |
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... As the stage erupted freely with the sounds of hope and of love through music, a world of peace did not seem that far away ...
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| by Laila Boulos & Mike Colyer |
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| Soul Stew Volume Two CD release |
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... “I was born by the river in a little tent / And just like the river / I've been running ever since / It's been a long time coming ..."
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Jeremy Pelt Quintet |
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... Pelt's blistering trumpet lines came out of the virtuoso tradition of people like Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, and Terence Blanchard ...
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| by David Fujino & Mike Colyer |
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| Roger Reynolds and his Protégés |
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... suddenly the musicians put down their instruments and the music kept happening behind us ...
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| by Zoë Guigueno |
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| Janelle Monique You Go to My Head |
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... The petite Janelle Monique danced, smiled, sang and scatted her way through a wide range of rhythms, languages and moods ...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Sergei Babayan |
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... Unheard of harmonies, dark percussive figures somehow release vibrations of ethereal overtones ...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Mountains |
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... Cacophony ruled, while the music retained its melodic base. Textures were rich, but never glistened with useless trickery ...
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| by Tom Sekowski |
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| Multimedia |
Poetry |
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| Bob Dylan and the Poetry of the Blues |
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... For nearly two hours, Mr. Gray shared with us his compendious knowledge and sensible enthusiasm for Dylan ...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Toronto Poetry Slam |
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On Saturday, April 25 the top eight amateur spoken-word poets of Ontario came together at Hugh’s Room to speak their words ...
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| by Tova G. Kardonne |
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| Theatre |
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| Letters to My Grandma |
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... Good theatre is made from this, and the physical and vocal-based theatre of writer and actor Anusree Roy was clearly good theatre ...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Katherine Mansfield |
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... 'Smith-Gilmour' have again achieved a watchable and personal theatrical reflection of Katherine Mansfield's worlds ...
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| by David Fujino |
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