“Throughout a fruitful musical career he worked almost exclusively with artists outside of traditional classical institutions – in particular with Dutch and American groups, freelance musicians and especially his own Steve Martland Band. … His works are frequently intended to be played amplified and their muscular and rhythmic forms led to many dance commissions.”
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Helen Mirren Wants To Make Up With Youths She Yelled At Outside Theatre
“I would love to track them down and invite them to see the play. I felt rotten but on the other hand they were destroying our performance so something had to be done.”
Turning Buffalo’s Grain Elevators Into Luminous Public Art
“The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation just rolled out a four-stage plan to illuminate the grain elevators along the city’s waterfront. It’s an attempt to attract more visitors and, perhaps more importantly, to put to rest the negative association grain elevators have with Buffalo’s economic decline.”
Why Pulitzer Winner Ayad Akhtar Wrote Disgraced
“I was at a dinner party in 2006 with some friends and talk turned to Islam and a couple of European friends were there … who I don’t think had identified me as Muslim, at least not in any operative sense. And I noticed in a very subtle way how that evening shifted their idea of me and it always – after that night, it always struck me that this would be a great idea for a play.”
Watching Gemze De Lappe Choreograph Oklahoma! At Age 91
Hedy Weiss finds that de Lappe is “still fleet, disciplined, razor-sharp and funny.”
ILL-Abilities: Disabled B-Boys Got The Right Moves
“They have overcome deafness, joint disorders, amputation and cancer to compete against the best b-boy dancers on the planet.”
Who Was Moms Mabley? The First Successful Female Stand-Up Comedian, That’s Who
“Born Loretta Mary Aiken, she was a pioneer in her field – a black woman who pushed the boundaries of taste, politics, and race as far back as the 1920s, while performing on the Chitlin’ Circuit. … Her career extended well into the ’70s, leaving behind a legacy of over 20 albums, and memorable appearances” on Ed Sullivan’s, Johnny Carson’s and the Smothers Brothers’ television shows. Yet most people born after 1970 have never heard of her.
Street Art Booms In São Paulo
There are painted murals, crochet coverings for tree trunks, conceptual art “microscripts” pasted around construction sites – there’s even a service that connects graffiti artists with the owners of buildings with empty walls.
Richie Havens, 72, Folk Musician And Icon Of Woodstock
“From the beginning, when he played Village folk clubs in the mid-Sixties, Havens stood out due to more than just his imposing height (he was six-and-a-half feet tall) and his ethnicity (African-American in a largely white folk scene). He played his acoustic guitar with an open tuning and in a fervent, rhythmic style, and he sang in a sonorous, gravel-road voice that connected folk, blues and gospel.”
Psy’s Latest Video Banned By South Korean Network (You Won’t Believe Why)
“South Korea’s KBS, a state-funded broadcaster, said Thursday it was banning the video because it shows Psy kicking a traffic cone with a ‘no parking’ sign on it. The TV network says it has a policy prohibiting the showing of videos that abuse public property.”