Remixing a symphony for the TSO to perform? There's an app for that (sort of). Innovative composer Tod Machover is creating a brand new classical composition inspired by Toronto that incorporates actual sounds from the city and submissions by its residents.
Category: Live Performance
Getting hands on with TSO's interactive symphony app
Categories: Live Performance, Music, Social Media
Tags: app, A Toronto Symphony, interactive, public, social, Tod Machover, TSO
Jem Cohen's We Have an Anchor
Categories: Live Performance, Movies
Tags: film, hybrid, Jem Cohen, music, We Have an Anchor
Jem Cohen doesn't call We Have an Anchor a film, but it's certainly an intriguing cinematic experience. A multi-screen film project accompanied by a live rock band, Anchor is an epic tone poem -- an ode to Cape Breton and Nova Scotia by an American filmmaker who fell in love with the place. Eli Glasner gets swept away.
Bonnaroo: a musical education
Categories: Live Performance, Music
Surviving sweltering heat and rain storms alike, dusty crowds as well as friends gone M.I.A., Laura Thompson concludes that attending the Bonnaroo festival gives one an invaluable musical education in just a few days. She outlines personal highlights from the latter end of the fest and thoughts about her experience in Manchester, Tenn.
Decisions, decisions at Bonnaroo
Categories: Live Performance, Music
Taking in Radiohead's wild, two-hour sonic journey at Bonnaroo is a no-brainer, but how to decide what else to see in the festival's jam-packed slate of amazing acts? Will it be Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings or Two Door Cinema Club? The Avett Brothers or Fitz and The Tantrums? Then, there's also Feist to consider. Arts journalist Laura Thompson tackles this musical dilemma.
Bonnaroo's rappers and shakers
Categories: Live Performance, Music
Arts journalist Laura Thompson reports from the 2012 Bonnaroo music festival in Manchester, Tenn. She's inside, has her tent up and is ready to hear some tunes. Up first: rapper Kendrick Lamar and things just get better with Alabama Shakes.
Bonnaroo, here we come!
Categories: Live Performance, Music
Tags: Bonnaroo Festival, festival, live, Manchester, music, outdoor, Tenn.
What started as an innocent idea between friends -- a trek down to Tennessee to camp out at the 2012 Bonnaroo music fest -- quickly revealed itself as an enormous undertaking. Arts journalist Laura Thompson outlines her prep, last-minute concerns and the musical acts she can't wait to see.
Memories of Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie
Categories: Books, Live Performance, Music, Television
Tags: Carole King, children, Maurice Sendak, musical, Really Rosie, song, stage
You know those songs, movies or stories that take you right back to being a kid? Those invoking the tastes, the feelings, the smells of that precise time and place in your life when you first heard, watched or read them? For arts producer Ilana Banks, it's Maurice Sendak and Carole King's musical Really Rosie that sparks that nostalgia.
Our reviewer Anna Asimakopulos was in the audience with high expectations for the debut of Cirque du Soleil's Amaluna in Montreal. Amazons, flying bats, a singing moon goddess, a charming Miranda and a juggling pet lizard enliven the heavily female production, but there are a few sloppy moments and some segments should be dropped altogether. Send out the clowns!
Fans of the tender Irish indie film Once -- described by some as a "musical for people who don't like musicals" -- can rest easy. The newly opened stage adaptation, which celebrated its opening night Off-Broadway on Tuesday, is winning over critics and has secured a berth on Broadway.
Sketch troupe Picnicface tackles the mainstream
Categories: Books, Live Performance, Movies, Television
Tags: comedy troupe, halifax, picnicface
Comedy troupe Picnicface, the "Halifamous" internet sensation, is making a three-pronged attack on the entertainment world mainstream with a self-titled TV show, a satirical guide to Canada and the feature-length movie Roller Town -- not bad for a bunch of twenty- and thirty-somethings best known for an energy drink spoof.
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