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...There is a stark kalimba prickle to “Feeling Good”, doing the work of the horns on Nina Simone’s definitive reading....
...It was 10 years ago, when they were working together on Tristan und Isolde at the Royal Opera House, that conductor Antonio Pappano, director Christof Loy and soprano Nina Stemme hatched the idea of joining...
...Can only a Japanese singer play Madama Butterfly or a black singer Otello? “It is a dangerous thing to say only one kind of person can understand a specific situation....
...Undaunted by the scale of Simone’s achievements as pianist, singer and civil rights icon, Ballet Black’s Mthuthuzeli November has created Nina: By Whatever Means, which premiered at the Barbican Theatre...
...“Mal Hombre” came next, first recorded by the Mexican-American singer Lydia Mendoza in 1934, delivered here in Spanish with a fine balance of theatricality and style....
...It was designed by Schak Bull, his architect cousin, in 1885, and it was here that the Norwegian pianist and leading Romantic-era composer lived and worked alongside Nina, his singer-soprano wife, for 22...
...David Linx, a Belgian jazz singer who lived for a couple of years with Baldwin in Saint-Paul, is still angry three decades later. “James Baldwin is a legendary writer....
...Coward’s extraordinary career — writer, actor, singer, songwriter, spy — is narrated by Alan Cumming and peppered with Coward quotes read by Rupert Everett who wisely (veddy wisely) avoids imitation....
...As a singer, you have to use your physical self. It takes a lot out of you. You can’t say to the audience “I was great last night.” They didn’t pay for last night; they paid for tonight!...
...Walking in the Dark derives its title from lyrics in another of its tracks, “One By One”, originally by 1950s NYC singer-songwriter Connie Converse....
...Stormzy headlines alongside The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Haim, with strong supporting acts Jayda G and singer-songwriters Angel Olsen and Tove Lo....
...Singer Richard Hadfield, the regular Sunday-lunch musical entertainment, has shared a stage with stars from Gregory Porter to Shirley Bassey....
...South Korean singer Gonne Choi played perfect folk songs....
...Recorded in Barcelona, it featured one of Rosalía’s heroines, the singer Pastora Pavón, aka La Niña de los Peines. This process of change acquires a turbocharged character in Motomami....
...It is a quip that reveals the singer, songwriter and pianist’s acutely tuned ear for the less ordinary....
...She loves the singer Andy Williams, JFK, may he rest in peace, and her guitar, which was a present for her 14th birthday....
...When they are not playing the score or singing from the score, singers act out raw parodies of Ring clichés while pages of the music are strewn around them....
...Nina Simone, the great American singer and civil rights activist, participates in an African-American music festival in Nigeria, unaware that it has been bankrolled by the CIA....
...The work of art that changed everything was Nina Simone singing “Cotton Eyed Joe”....
...Stylist Joel Traptow, 27, was more accustomed to the runways of Paris and Milan, working with brands such as Missoni and Nina Ricci, than spending hours threading lettered beads on strings....
...Suleiman, who moved to Paris 20 years ago and lives there with his Lebanese singer-songwriter wife Yasmine Hamdan, knows the city well but does not necessarily love it....
...The result was a candid yet poetic hymn that enshrined her as a praise-singer of urban isolation....
...The newest episode sees Canadian pop singer Betta Lemme collaborate with hip hop group THe Lyonz....
...Meanwhile, John Legend sang Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” at a grand piano by the Lincoln Memorial with an unseen big-band accompaniment....
...After a short group of songs by Stenhammar, Nina Stemme was joined by an orchestra for the “Liebestod” from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde....
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