Tuesday, April 6, 2010

“Performing arts from the Netherlands in İstanbul - Today's Zaman” plus 3 more

“Performing arts from the Netherlands in İstanbul - Today's Zaman” plus 3 more

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Performing arts from the Netherlands in İstanbul - Today's Zaman

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:23 PM PDT

06 April 2010, Tuesday

TCC 2010 Literary Festival - HamptonRoads.com

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:31 PM PDT

FROM THE PROMOTERS

Four dynamic American poets who have helped shape the literary landscape of the nation will highlight Tidewater Community College's ninth annual Literary Festival – April 5-8.

 The free, public festival launches with Kay Ryan, U.S. Poet Laureate, as the keynote speaker at 7 p.m. on opening night, April 5, in the TCC Roper Performing Arts Center in downtown Norfolk.

 With a theme of "Four poets – four voices," this year's festival showcases landmark writers, diverse and profound in their acclaimed styles and presentations. (Please see http://www.tcc.edu/LiteraryFestival.)

Kay Ryan has written six books of poetry including Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends, Say Uncle and The Niagara River. Her writing, often compared to that of Emily Dickinson because it illuminates the ordinary, has been selected four times for The Best American Poetry and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review and The American Scholar. She was named to the "It List" by Entertainment Weekly, and one of her poems has been permanently installed at New York's Central Park Zoo. Her poems have been widely reprinted and internationally anthologized. Since 2006, she has been a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

If you go
Admission to all events is free.

Monday
Kay Ryan, keynote speaker, ninth TCC Literary Festival, with reception and book signing.
7 p.m. Monday , TCC Roper Performing Arts Center, 340 Granby St., Norfolk. (757) 822-1122; www.tcc.edu. 

Tuesday
12:30 p.m.: Norfolk, New Portsmouth, Virginia Beach campuses: readings by students and faculty.
7 p.m.: Performance poetry by Taylor Mali, who studied drama at Oxford with members of the Royal Shakespeare Acade my, is one of the first poets on HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry" and was in the documentary "SlamNation." TCC Roper Performing Arts Center, 340 Granby St., Norfolk. Books: "The Last Time as We Are," "What Learning Leaves ."

Wednesday
2 p.m.: Readings by students and faculty: Chesapeake Campus
7 p.m.: Readings by Charles Wright, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. An Army veteran and Fulbright Scholar, he now teaches at U.Va. Books include "Black Zodiac," "Country Music" and, now, "Seste ts."   Whitehurst Building, Room 2057, Chesapeake C ampus.

Thursday
12:30 p.m.: Nikki Giovanni, Advanced Technology Center, Virginia Beach
7 p.m.: Nikki Giovanni, Building A, The Forum,  New Portsmouth Campus

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Eclectic Schneider a delight at WAMC - Times Union

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:59 PM PDT

 ALBANY -- It's difficult to know where to start with Austin singer-songwriter Bob Schneider. He's got his fingers in so many musical pies that it's nearly impossible to tell what musical genre he'll be plowing through next.

And that's what it was like Friday night in the near-capacity crowd at the WAMC Performing Arts Studio. One moment, he's rattling off a laid-back, jazzy rap song like "Bullets," and the next minute he's charging through a churning, chugging ready-for-the-radio pop song like "40 Dogs (Like Romeo and Juliet)." (OK, the song is ready for the radio, not the title.)

Backed by the compact, workman-like trio of electric guitarist Bill Cassis, bassist Harmoni Kelley and drummer Conrad Choucroun, Schneider shifted gears from reggae to ska during "Big Blue Sea," and served up some steaming salsa sounds for "Bambanaza."

As Schneider switched back and forth from keyboards to guitar, he kept the audience guessing as he delved into jazz, blues, Latin, hip-hop, rock and more -- sometimes all within the same song. "Slower Dear," for instance, was a kind of snaking, south-of-the-border, jazzy Tex-Mex blues -- with the band beefed up by the addition of Jay Thomas on steel drums, while Schneider played trumpet.

After the throwaway novelty song, "Beatomatic," Schneider looked out at the crowd with a slightly inquisitive head-tilt and asked, "What was that? Country bossa nova swing?" Apparently sometimes, he's not even sure where he's going.

"We try to bring a lot of different musical flavors to our show," he explained before launching into "Till Somebody Catches a Feeling," a bouncy, little pop ditty. "But some of them aren't really all that tasty."

But it was an adventure, and a rewarding one, at that. Schneider is an excellent performer brimming over with dry wit and a willingness to experiment and even be silly. He made up an impromptu pseudo-jazz ode to the band mascot, Ricky the Raccoon, and he donned a Mexican wrestling mask for the rousing Latin-rock sing-along "Tarantula."

Schneider is also an excellent songwriter, his upbeat pop tunes often masking a dark, cynical outlook on life. For instance, the second song of the evening started out, "It was a beautiful day, the sky was blue" and ended by repeating the lyric, "God will destroy everything you love if you live long enough." And during the final encore of the night, he concluded with the line "The end of the world is on its way." Maybe so, but the way Schneider tells it, it almost sounds inviting.

Greg Haymes is a freelance writer from Castleton.

Concert review

Bob Schneider with the Steve Palmer Band

When: 8 p.m. Friday

Where: The WAMC Performing Arts Studio, 339 Central Ave., Albany

Length: Schneider -- 105 minutes; Steve Palmer Band -- 45 minutes

Highlights: "Piggyback," "Bullets" and the encore of "Ready, Let's Roll"

Upcoming: The WAMC Performing Arts Studio pulls out all the stop for a full-blown rock and roll show at 8 p.m. Wednesday with the Hold Steady. The Oranges Band opens the show.

Thanks for helping with concert - Newburyport Daily News

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:31 PM PDT

To the editor:

TMPO (Triton Music Parents Organization) would like to thank everyone who helped to make the Benefit Concert a week ago a success, from the students who took care of lighting and sound along with helping out backstage keeping everything organized to the parents who made and served snacks, set the tables and sold tickets. We would also like to thank Chris Walsh for his help making sure we had chairs, tables and anything else we needed to make things run smooth.

This wouldn't have come together without the work and talent of Wayne O'Blenes, David Fuller along with all the very talented Triton students and the impressive music from the students of Zach Field Drum Studios.

We would also like to thank everyone who came to support the arts, its people like you who give us the drive to keep our organization going for all the students in the performing arts.

Larry Buckless for the members of the Triton Music Parents Organization

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