Music – Page 2 – All Across the Arts

culture and tradition, Music, Performing Arts

NEW OWNERS PERPETUATE LEGACY

Sir Ernest Hall didn´t simply buy a property here on Lanzarote and retire quietly. He bought a somewhat neglected and ramshackle old-fashioned Camel House and turned into a beautiful home surrounded by newly landscaped land. He converted a room into a magnificent sunset-trap and musical auditorium, with a 180 degree vista of the sea.

culture and tradition, education, Music

LED ZEP’S MOST ICONIC SONGS,…

Em Casalina, writing recently in American Songwriter, picked three particular songs from the entire Led Zep catalogue as being cuts that typify the group and their attitude to their music, which she rightly reminds us,. is loaded with rich lore. but these three songs are particularly interesting. She then took a quick look at the lore behind three of Led Zeppelin’s most famous songs that every diehard fan should know!

culture and tradition, Music, Performing Arts

A CONCERT OF ANGELS AND DEMONS

Natalia played three of his sonatas, and these also carried Angels and Demons side by side, leaving the audience continually looking out for the demons and then being gathered back in by the angels, a theme Natalia´s style reflected throughout the rest of the evening.

cinema, culture and tradition, Music

A SUITCASE FULL OF DREAMS

Who knows whether the definitive biography of Kris Kristofferson is yet to be written?

culture and tradition, dance, Music

tuned in to BOOM

Nanci Grifith wrote and recorded a great song that was not only a tribute to pioneering ´country´ singer writers like Loretta Lyn and Emmylou Harris, but also a celebrfation of the radio.

cinema, Music, Performing Arts

KRISTOFFERSON

Kris Kristofferson, who died Saturday at age 88 in Maui, Hawaii, had not one but two successful careers: the first as a country-music songwriter and the second as a movie actor.

culture and tradition, dance, Music

FUNMI ONONAIYE: OMNIPRESENT

Funmi Ononaiye, the regal, omnipresent music connoisseur, who was an inspiring ray of light in his capacities as A&R director, event producer, artist manager, performing musician, and mentor to many people, died on December 18, 2023, at Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City.

cinema, Literary, Music

A DANGLING CONVERSATION

It began with Larry telling me he had been watching a music documentary series on Sky Arts about how so many black musicians and writers were paid only a pittance for their catlogues, because of signing contracts that they didn´t realise were offering royalties that were less than one per cent of what recording companies were offering to white musicans.