YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and Microsoft chief Satya Nadella were skedded to join 2,500 politicians, business and nonprofit leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week as the annual gathering kneecapped by Covid is back in person. It reconvenes, a bit subdued, at a critical moment with the world staggering under food scarcity, raging fuel prices and war.
There’s usually a sprinkling of snow on the pines at the tony mountain resort, about a seven-hour drive from the Cannes Film Festival. The showbiz presence is also scant at an event that over the years has hosted Hollywood and music royalty like Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Sharon Stone, Goldie Hawn, Bono, Peter Gabriel and Will.I.Am.
Davos is the place where assembled dignitaries tittered and booed a boastful speech by former President Donald Trump in 2018, but weren’t laughing when he returned in 2020. In 2021, the event was virtual.
There’s usually a sprinkling of snow on the pines at the tony mountain resort, about a seven-hour drive from the Cannes Film Festival. The showbiz presence is also scant at an event that over the years has hosted Hollywood and music royalty like Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Sharon Stone, Goldie Hawn, Bono, Peter Gabriel and Will.I.Am.
Davos is the place where assembled dignitaries tittered and booed a boastful speech by former President Donald Trump in 2018, but weren’t laughing when he returned in 2020. In 2021, the event was virtual.
- 5/23/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The 64th Grammy Awards moved from January in Los Angeles to April in Las Vegas this year thanks to another Covid surge. Trevor Noah, who made his Grammy debut last year, returned to host a show that included performances by Silk Sonic, Lady Gaga, Chris Stapleton, Billie Eilish, BTS, and Olivia Rodrigo. Here’s a rundown of all the Grammy winners.
Best Pop Vocal Album: Sour — Olivia Rodrigo
Best R&b Album: Heaux Tales — Jazmine Sullivan
Best Rap Performance: “Family Ties” — Baby Keem feat. Kendrick Lamar
Best New Artist: Olivia...
Best Pop Vocal Album: Sour — Olivia Rodrigo
Best R&b Album: Heaux Tales — Jazmine Sullivan
Best Rap Performance: “Family Ties” — Baby Keem feat. Kendrick Lamar
Best New Artist: Olivia...
- 4/3/2022
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Deadline reports that Amazon will premiere season two of its Mozart in the Jungle TV show, December 30, 2015. All ten episodes of the second season of Mozart in the Jungle will be available to stream on Amazon Prime. Per Deadline, the series will be available to Prime members in the Us, UK, Germany and Australia.
The cast of Mozart in the Jungle includes Gael Garcia Bernal; Lola Kirke; Saffron Burrows; Malcolm McDowell; and Bernadette Peters. According to Deadline, Gretchen Mol, Dermot Mulroney, and Esai Morales, will guest star in season two, which will also include appearances from Gustavo Dudamel, Lang Lang, and Emanuel Ax.
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The cast of Mozart in the Jungle includes Gael Garcia Bernal; Lola Kirke; Saffron Burrows; Malcolm McDowell; and Bernadette Peters. According to Deadline, Gretchen Mol, Dermot Mulroney, and Esai Morales, will guest star in season two, which will also include appearances from Gustavo Dudamel, Lang Lang, and Emanuel Ax.
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- 12/3/2015
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
For lovers of classical music, the above trailer for "Mozart in the Jungle" Season 2 offers a taste of what's to come. The series will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in the Us, UK, Germany and Austria on December 30. Read More: 'Mozart in the Jungle' Showrunner on Why The Amazon Original Is Unlike Anything Else Based on the memoir by Blair Tindall, the second season will bring viewers returning stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Lola Kirke, Saffron Burrows, Malcolm McDowell and Bernadette Peters, as well as classical music veterans like acclaimed conductor Gustavo Dudamel, world-renowned concert pianist Lang Lang, classical pianist Emanuel Ax, New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert, and opera composer and conductor Anton Coppola. Violinist/conductor Joshua Bell also returns this season. The latest trailer for the upcoming season showcases a tidbit of the chaos, as well as the exotic locales visited (from La’s Hollywood Bowl.
- 12/1/2015
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
Born to humble beginnings, Sir Patrick Stewart has worked his way up to become one of the most recognizable stars today.
The veteran stage actor was prolific as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for over a decade. However, it wasn't until the late 1980s that Stewart broke out on screen, portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Riding that wave, he was cast as the iconic Professor Charles Xavier in the film adaptation of the "X-Men" comic books. This summer, Stewart reprises the role of the mutant Xavier once again in Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
From the actor's early work as a journalist to his "bodacious man" award, here are 27 things you probably don't know about Patrick Stewart.
1. Stewart was born in Yorkshire, England to Gladys Barrowclough, a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army.
The veteran stage actor was prolific as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for over a decade. However, it wasn't until the late 1980s that Stewart broke out on screen, portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Riding that wave, he was cast as the iconic Professor Charles Xavier in the film adaptation of the "X-Men" comic books. This summer, Stewart reprises the role of the mutant Xavier once again in Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
From the actor's early work as a journalist to his "bodacious man" award, here are 27 things you probably don't know about Patrick Stewart.
1. Stewart was born in Yorkshire, England to Gladys Barrowclough, a weaver and textile worker, and Alfred Stewart, a Regimental Sergeant Major in the British Army.
- 5/23/2014
- by Jonny Black
- Moviefone
A classicist using Romantic harmonies, Johannes Brahms (1833-97) was hailed at age 20 by Robert Schumann in a famous article entitled "New Paths." Yet by the time Brahms wrote his mature works, his music was thought of as a conservative compared to the daring harmonies and revolutionary dramatic theories of Richard Wagner. But in the next century, Arnold Schoenberg's 1947 essay titled "Brahms the Progressive" praised Brahms's bold modulations (as daring as Wagner's most tonally ambiguous chords), asymmetrical forms, and mastery of imaginative variation and development of thematic material.
The son of a bassist in the Hamburg Philharmonic Society, Brahms was an excellent pianist who was supporting himself by his mid-teens. His first two published works were his Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2, and throughout his career he penned much fine music for that instrument, not only solo (including the later Piano Sonata No. 3) and duo but also his landmark Piano Concertos Nos.
The son of a bassist in the Hamburg Philharmonic Society, Brahms was an excellent pianist who was supporting himself by his mid-teens. His first two published works were his Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2, and throughout his career he penned much fine music for that instrument, not only solo (including the later Piano Sonata No. 3) and duo but also his landmark Piano Concertos Nos.
- 5/8/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
As always, there are biases at play here; my greatest interests are symphonic music, choral music, and piano music, so that's what comes my way most often. There are some paired reviews; the ranking of the second of each pair might not be the true, exact ranking, but it works better from a writing standpoint this way.
1. Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Tragic Overture, Op. 81; Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a; 3 Hungarian Dances; 9 Liebeslieder Waltzes; Intermezzi, Op. 116 No. 4 & Op. 117 No. 1 Gewandhausorchester/Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
It is not easy, at this point in recording history, to match the giants of the baton in a Brahms cycle, but Chailly has done it (this is my fiftieth Brahms cycle, and I have more than another fifty Brahms Firsts, and upwards of thirty each of the other symphonies outside those cycles, so I've got some basis for comparison...
1. Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4; Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Tragic Overture, Op. 81; Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a; 3 Hungarian Dances; 9 Liebeslieder Waltzes; Intermezzi, Op. 116 No. 4 & Op. 117 No. 1 Gewandhausorchester/Riccardo Chailly (Decca)
It is not easy, at this point in recording history, to match the giants of the baton in a Brahms cycle, but Chailly has done it (this is my fiftieth Brahms cycle, and I have more than another fifty Brahms Firsts, and upwards of thirty each of the other symphonies outside those cycles, so I've got some basis for comparison...
- 1/6/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Associated Press Hyung-ki Joo, left, and Aleksey Igudesman.
Here’s how violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo perform Bach. With blissful expressions on their faces, they start with the gentle strains of Prelude in C—then John Malkovich interrupts, Igudesman falls to his knees in prayer and the piece somehow erupts into tango master Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango.”
Known as Igudesman & Joo, the duo lampoons the perceived stuffiness of classical music using daffy comedy skits and genre-blurring music mashups.
Here’s how violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo perform Bach. With blissful expressions on their faces, they start with the gentle strains of Prelude in C—then John Malkovich interrupts, Igudesman falls to his knees in prayer and the piece somehow erupts into tango master Astor Piazzolla’s “Libertango.”
Known as Igudesman & Joo, the duo lampoons the perceived stuffiness of classical music using daffy comedy skits and genre-blurring music mashups.
- 4/17/2012
- by John Jurgensen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
The Oscars may be entertainment’s most glamorous night, but no awards show is more entertaining than the Kennedy Center Honors. Taped earlier this month, they finally air tonight at 9 p.m. Et on CBS.This year’s honorees include Meryl Streep, Neil Diamond, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins, and singer and Tony winner Barbara Cook. If finding out how Anne Hathaway ends up in a split while honoring her Devil Wears Prada costar Streep (who is also feted by Robert De Niro, Mike Nichols, Kevin Kline, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and Tracey Ullman) isn’t enough...
- 12/27/2011
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary Concert with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic is coming to Great Performances Tuesday, May 31, 2011, at 8 p.m. Et on PBS. On May 5, 2011, Carnegie Hall commemorated its 120th anniversary with an all-star gala concert featuring conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic and special guests: pianist Emanuel Ax, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Gil Shaham, and the four-time Tony Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald. The event features the works of Ludwig von Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Antonin Dvoøák, and George Gershwin -- will air as part of Great Performances on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 from 8-9:30 p.m. Et on PBS (check local listings). Great Performances is a production of...
- 5/21/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
At a press conference in Tokyo today, New York Philharmonic Music Director Designate Alan Gilbert and President and Executive Director Zarin Mehta announced the details of Asian Horizons: Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, October 8?24, 2009. This will be the Orchestra?s inaugural international concert tour under the leadership of Alan Gilbert, who will begin his tenure as Music Director in September 2009. Asian Horizons will consist of eleven concerts, spanning five Asian countries, with performances in Tokyo, Japan (a destination of special significance in light of Mr. Gilbert?s Japanese heritage); Seoul, Korea; Singapore; and the Philharmonic?s debut performances in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Pianist Emanuel Ax and violinists Frank Peter Zimmermann and Ye-Eun Choi (Philharmonic debut) are the featured soloists on the tour. Asian Horizons marks the fourth New York Philharmonic concert tour under the aegis of Credit Suisse, the Orchestra?s Global Sponsor,...
- 6/3/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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