Music : By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
In his mission to reinvigorate the Metropolitan Opera, Peter Gelb, who completed his second season as general manager on Saturday night, has inaugurated outreach campaigns and digital-media ventures that are the envy of the opera world. There have been the enormously popular live high-definition transmissions of broadcasts to movie theaters worldwide, […]
Posted on May 21st, 2008 by admin
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Music Review | Erykah Badu : By JON PARELES
Between songs at Radio City Music Hall on Friday night Erykah Badu leaned over a computer and some electronic equipment to set off burbling, swooping noises straight out of sci-fi B movies, as if she were tuning in the concert from another dimension. Maybe she was.
Ms. Badu’s […]
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by admin
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By JEFF LEEDS : In an unusual nod to the popularity of free music online, the rock act Nine Inch Nails is offering its new album, “The Slip,” through its Web site — for nothing.
In a post on the band’s Web site, www.nin.com, the band’s leader, Trent Reznor, said, “Thank you for your continued and […]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by admin
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Music Review : By BEN RATLIFF
It’s a good thing that Dolly Parton has written songs about her Smoky Mountain homeland, and that she can flash pictures of the house and the landscape in her shows. It gave a pleasant frame to her show at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday. Love your home, love your […]
Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin
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By BEN SISARIO : Halfway through her 32-minute set on Wednesday night at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan, Madonna offered a message of sympathy.
“All you people I saw sleeping in the street last night,” she said, “this song is for you.”
It was “Hung Up,” about the agony of waiting. And as she finished the song, […]
Posted on May 1st, 2008 by admin
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By MELENA RYZIK
“I love you, oh my God, you my idol!” Ashley Smellie, a Long Island high school student, gushed as the young Brooklyn rapper Lil Mama emerged from a tour bus outside of a club in Queens last week. It was near midnight, and Lil Mama had been scheduled to perform for an audience […]
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin
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