The New York Times
The theater director Robert Wilson has been faithful to his artistic obsessions for more than four decades. Starkly arresting visual tableaus, dramatically beautiful lighting and deliberately stylized gesture are among the tools with which he has created a repertory of epic-scale theater, opera and dance works. (15/08)
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The British dance-pop duo the Ting Tings are having the kind of year most musicians dream about: hit singles in the UK, a buzzed-about showcase at South ...
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I HAVE often railed at the fact that music has become more about the visuals than the song itself. Yet, in hypocritical fashion, I'm going to tell you ...
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The first project of its kind in the history of Iraq. Young Iraqi artists will soon have an opportunity to shine their talents through the fog of war, ...
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It's 7.17pm on the platform of Paddington station, on a typical grey winter night. I glance up nervously at the clock, desperately thumbing the controls ...
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Bihu is synonymous with music, dance and festivities. So, when a group of experienced and young artistes got together for a music album, they decided to ...
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A short piece for six cellos to be given its world premiere in Manchester this week attempts to recreate the sound of a dance band made up of a bunch of ...
Read
Ministry of Sound has started round three in its public campaign against AIM, in protest at Impala's agreement with Warner Music Group. The dance music ...
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About 5,000 people danced in a trance outside a Balinese temple on Friday in a colossal show aimed at reviving the Indonesian island's tourism industry, ...
Read
Europe's largest independent record label, dance music imprint Ministry of Sound, has resigned from the UK independent music trade body in protest at ...
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Earlier this month, Babs performed a humorous skit on her tour that featured a George Bush impersonator. After eliciting a few jeers from the crowd, Streisand ...
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For those whose first contact with rock'n'roll was in the mid-1950s, Jerry Lee Lewis was a god. His frenetic piano playing, wildly raucous vocal delivery ...
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Astrid Varnay, the Swedish-American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut _ without rehearsal _ in a nationally broadcast performance and went ...
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David Gockley unveiled a different sound and look for the San Francisco Opera on Monday, announcing a season -- the first he's planned as general director ...
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Anna Netrebko, as you might expect from one of the hottest divas in the world, is hopelessly late. I spend the time chatting to the doorman at the opera ...
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