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 A Veteran Of Funk And Soul Turns To Klezmer
(August 28, 2008)
Fred Wesley
has had a varied career.
The 65-year-old Alabama native played piano and trumpet before
making his professional debut on trombone with a local big band
at age 12. He cut his teeth with Ike and Tina
Turner, Hank
Ballard and U.S. army bands before launching his own R&B/ hard
bop band, the Mastersound, in 1967. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com - Ashante Infantry,
Pop & Jazz Critic |
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.gif) More Than Coffee At This Canadian Music
Café
(August 30, 2008)
So it was no big surprise to Toronto-based film and TV music
supervisor Michael Perlmutter – he built the soundtracks for the
TV series Queer As Folk and DeGrassi: The Next
Generation, and helped put the music together for the
Gemini-nominated Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame gala – that
more
than 200 Canadian songwriters and artists responded to the
industry-wide call for submissions to participate in the
fourth-annual
Canadian Music Café,
now a permanent musical showcase at the Toronto International
Film Festival. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com - Greg Quill,
Entertainment Columnist |
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Grammy Award Winning Soweto Gospel Choir's New Project
(August 25, 2008) On Sept 16 the
Soweto Gospel Choir
will
simultaneously release their new CD/DVD 'Live at the Nelson
Mandela Theatre.'
It comes just in
time for their Oct. 3rd 48-city North American
tour kick-off, which will run through the holiday season - a
first for the Choir in America.
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In The End, Her Voice Will Go On
(August
29, 2008)
One of the most obvious trends in the music scene
over the past couple of years has been the aggrandizement of the
live concert experience.
And somewhere in the middle of this visual cacophony is Celine
herself, moving energetically from side to side (to side to
side) of the stage, and down the
runways to the smaller stages,
until keeping up with her movements becomes a sort of Where's
Waldo? exercise (if Waldo had a five-octave vocal range, that
is). |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
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Alan Neister |
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Michael Jackson Turns 50, Shadow Of Superstar Self
(August
29, 2008)
LOS
ANGELES– Singer
Michael Jackson
turned 50
Friday, a shadow of the superstar once known as the "King of
Pop" whose records thrilled
millions before his bizarre personal
life eclipsed his musical brilliance. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
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Jill Serjeant,
Reuters |
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Latest Pop Sensations Are Anything But Stationary
(August
29, 2008)
Mason Musso has only been a pop star for a couple of
months, but that doesn't mean the 19-year-old isn't capable of
nostalgia.
"It was different when we were just making music in my basement
... I kinda miss it," says
Metro
Station's
Musso from the road, en route to Toronto. "There's (people) in
my family who are getting older and I'm kinda missing out on
that." |
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Source:
www.thestar.com
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Garnet Fraser,
Toronto Star |
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New Courses Help Kids Tune In To Language
(August 30, 2008) Like the arresting mix of music, movement and
imagery during the opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics,
the
Royal Conservatory of Music
is trying to help us tell our stories in new ways.
For the first time, the Royal Conservatory's course calendar is
not printed, but available online, at
rcmusic.ca.
The website lays out three streams of instruction: for children,
adults and the professional development of artists and teachers. |
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Source:
www.thestar.com -
Classical Music Critic |
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Tunes For The Head And The Hips
(August
29, 2008)
The rise of
digital technology
has impacted
musical genres across the spectrum, but none more so than hip
hop, R&B and electronic music,
styles that were born and bred in
urban centres. With that in mind, Toronto's Urban Music Week has
booked the subject's pre-eminent scholar - and noted
party-rocker - DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid. |
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Source:
www.globeandmail.com
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Joshua Ostroff |
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Columbia Announces New Mary Mary
(September 03, 2008) *NEW YORK -- Columbia Records is proud to announce
the upcoming release of The Sound, the avidly awaited new studio album
from
the platinum-selling chart-topping award-winning R&B/gospel duo
Mary Mary.
The Sound will be available online and in stores on Tuesday, October 14. |
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Students Sing Her Praises
(September 03, 2008) She will always picture her sitting at the piano.
"Her bifocals are halfway down her nose and she has this way of cocking
her head
just so," soprano Adrianne Pieczonka says of her
celebrated vocal coach,
Mary Morrison.
"After I sing a passage she says, 'Now, there's a sound!' " |
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Source:
www.thestar.com -
Joanna Smith |
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