Archive for February, 2008
Piano man’s passion for work of Welsh composer
0 Comments Published February 29th, 2008 in General Music.Paris-based pianist Ivan Ilic is so taken by the music of Welsh composer John Metcalf that he is premiering his new work. Mike Smith enjoys a preview of Appassionata
FOR his first tour of Wales, award-winning star of the Paris music scene Ivan Ilic decided to alter his programme and include a solo piano piece by [...]
Since the 1980s the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco and its capital have generated some of Latin America’s most forward-looking popular music. Musicians from Recife, Olinda and rural Pernambuco have concocted rock laced with funk; reggae; the local beats of maracatú and frevo; old rural songs; and the beats, burbles and scratches of electronica. In [...]
With teak walls, antique jade carvings, dim lighting and neutral silk fabrics, our room at the Setai Hotel in Miami has a serene vibe, right down to the New Age music coming from a source we can’t determine and the do-not-disturb sign with a topless Asian figure embossed in gold metal, finger to lips in [...]
Pregnant women in Istanbul will have a rare treat: A concert dedicated to them and their babies this Sunday, Feb. 17 at Bogazici University. The concert will be given by Anjelika Akbar, the well-loved classical pianist, who is also an expectant mother due to give birth to her second son in two months. Even before [...]
Healing Music From Therapeutic Resonance Room
0 Comments Published February 12th, 2008 in General Music.For those accustomed to traveling to Boulder to experience the latest trends in mind/body therapy, it’s time to set your sights several miles to the east.
To Lafayette.
To the YMCA of Boulder Valley at 95th Street and Arapahoe Avenue, where the only sound-resonance floor in the country — and possibly the world — has just been [...]