An aimless tollbooth clerk takes on the suffering of Holocaust survivors in this edgy psychological thriller. Mark Webber (STORYTELLING), Rachel Miner (BLACK DAHLIA), and Jerry Adler (THE SOPRANOS) star in this provocative tale of obsession.
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Californication star devastated by husband's sudden death
Californication star devastated by husband's sudden death
Californication star Natascha McElhone has been left hand devastated by the sudden death of her husband.
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Auckland Choral at Auckland Town Hall
Auckland Choral at Auckland Town Hall
This Sabbatum night Peter Watts picks up his baton for the last time as Auckland Choral's euphony director.The quietly-spoken Englishman weighs language carefully when he looks back over 20 age at the helm of an organisation that has been providing Auckland with music for 153 long time.Isaac Watts settled here in 1973 and was coaxed into the Dorian Singers by his treble married woman, Katharine."It was exciting to come in to the other remainder of the humanity and find something so special," he says."We were discovering the repertory and everything seemed new."Watts has always been drawn to the unusual, gift us Prokofiev and Honegger alongside the perennial Messiahs.Auckland Choral has ever encouraged Fresh Sjaelland composers, commission Saint David Hamilton's Missa Pacifica for its 150th celebrations.He admires Hamilton's "ability to write something that is specific for a particular occasion only non so much so that it can't be used elsewhere".Hamilton's The Dragons ar Telling Tonight, which the choir revived last June, was a welcome change from the standard sacred repertoire.
"You can't be doing Carmina Burana entirely the time when you require to do something secular."The medicine of today matters."If we don't programme coeval music, what is on that point leaving to be?"Watts asks."Back in the 18th century, most of the medicine performed was contemporary but, since and then, the whole historical perspective of music has worked against the contemporary composer."Look endorse o'er his deuce decades, the choir's 2001 carrying into action of Elgar's The Pipe dream of Gerontius is a high spot. Back in England, as a educatee, Isaac Watts had song dynasty in the oratorio, conducted by Benjamin Britten, with St. Peter the Apostle Pears vocalizing Gerontius."It was a dream come true," he says. "I can buoy still get word Pears singing, 'Take me away"' - vocalising the Elgarian musical phrase in an uncanny imitation of Pears' somewhat strangulated tenor."I was fortunate in Auckland because the Sheffield Choral Union had done Gerontius here in 1911 as theatrical role of a domain tour. A grandson of one of the Sheffield consort members was singing with us and his grandfather's diary recalled totally the performances and the adventures that were to be had in Auckland. To make that connexion for the choir spell we were preparing it was in truth thrilling."With a number of smaller choirs established in the metropolis, what use does he see the 140-150 voices of Auckland Choral performing?
"We have got past the feeling that the big choir is a geriatric thing of the past tense," he says."A lot of larger choirs ar trying to whistle in a more chamber choir style, expiration for focused sound and commodity voice - things that give real lifetime to the singing ... the act of tattle itself goes very deep, to the whole use of our breath."Breathing space is a symbolization of creation," he continues."God breathed on the piss. And breathing together in that common sense is something amazing. The cooperation that it demands must be good for society."On Sabbatum, flanked by St. Andrew Carter's Benedicite, which the English people composer, Isaac Watts points out, "considers is one of his best works" and The Hoop of Words, peculiarly written settings of Henry M. Robert Louis Stevenson and Siegfried Sassoon by David Hamilton to fete the occasion, is Beethoven's great C major Mass."The consort hasn't done this Pile since 1867. It's manageable in the Haydn sense, simply it has a fresh feel. It's got the drama, Beethoven's rush crescendos."In that location are quaternity soloists simply no arias; it is team work and I've chosen it because I like working with teams."Execution What: Auckland ChoralWhere and when: Auckland Township Hall, Saturday 7.30pm
George Coleman; Joey DeFrancesco
Sunday, 4 May 2008
Obituary: Jimmy Giuffre
Obituary: Jimmy Giuffre
The Wind Coffee shop in London's Camden Town scarcely seemed the nonpareil setting for Jimmy Giuffre's intimate form of jazz - on that night in 1991, a wispy necromancy on clarinet and treble sax like bubbles drifting in still air. Merely Giuffre and his chamber jazz triplet (with longtime partners Paul Bley on piano and Steve Bury on bass guitar) brought a ordinarily animated venue to an awed silence as the then 70-year-old Giuffre, looking like a reduce bird of night, eased gently between a pastel-hued impressionism, hints of the blues, brief glimpses of a New Orleans-like raucousness, and soft doodling with double time bebop lines.
Giuffre, world Health Organization has died aged 86 of complications from Parkinson's disease, had been fashioning music this way for decades - long before the post-1960s north European motion that brought ambient sounds and spaciness into the lyric of nothingness. If he had been active longer as a participant, he would very in all likelihood have got joined the prestigious Electronic countermeasures label's roster of quietly contemplative jazz makers - the groundwork even existed, Electronic countermeasures having released its low reissue, in the too soon 1990s, of the landmark Giuffre/Bley/Swallow free-jazz academic session just titled 1961.Giuffre's afterward long time, however, were spent in comparative degree obscurity. All the same he had been a jazz fame from his late forties membership of Woody Herman's Minute Herd (along with Stan Getz, among others), through his iconic performance of the contrapuntal The Condition and the River in the 1958 Newport festival pic Malarky on a Summer's Day. His mature trend seemed to make several distinct timbral identities on his broad range of instruments: darkness, loose-pitched and from time to time even raw in a Charles VII Lloyd-like manner on tenor voice sax; poignant and pure-toned on soprano; airy and diaphanous on transverse flute; folksy, low-pitched and rather European-sounding on clarinet.Giuffre was max Born in Dallas, Lone-Star State, and took up the clarinet at nine-spot. He studied euphony at North Lone-Star State State Teachers College, worked in terpsichore bands and classical ensembles, and spent little Joe years in an air effect orchestra. He studied opus in Calif. in the late forties, and presently began arrangement for the innovative, Bartok-and-Debussy influenced dance band of Boyd Raeburn, and the swing orchestra of Jemmy Dorsey.His piece teacher was the poet and composer Dr Wesley La Violette, whose sympathy of counterpoint helped him conceive of a more melodically intertwined manner of improvising than the vertical, scales-over-chords glide slope of bebop. Giuffre made his first lasting contribution to jazz in 1947, when he arranged and composed the hit subject Four Brothers, to showcase the star saxophone squad of Getz, Zoot Sims, Herbie Steward and Serge Chaloff in Herman's Minute Herd. A toy masterpiece of section-writing and spurs to individual flights, Tetrad Brothers showed how distinctively he was already negotiating the tricky jazz compromise of exemption and organisation. Giuffre began his have recording career in the saame twelvemonth, joined drummer Sidekick Rich's band as tenor saxist and musical comedy managing director, and in 1948 replaced Sims in Herman's band.Acting tenor voice and baritone voice saxes and clarinet, Giuffre worked on the mae West seashore with Shelly Manne, Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse Allstars and Shorty Rogers' Giants. On the 1955 Capitol album Tangents in Jazz, he confirmed the counterpoint fascination by eschewing chord-playing instruments; he too made The Jemmy Giuffre Clarinet album in 1956 with various francis Scott Key West Coast figures including Manne, William Penn Adair Rogers and piano player Jimmy Rowles, and recorded a version of the Broadway hit The Music Man for Atlantic Ocean. He taught at the influential Lenox School of Idle words in 1957, significantly meeting the
Underwood pulls out of Dancing on Ice
Underwood pulls out of Dancing on Ice
'GMTV' sponsor Michael Undergrowth has been forced to draw out of 'Dancing on Ice' after breaking his articulatio talocruralis.
The idiot box presenter was eruditeness his fresh bit for the next subsist designate when he fell awkwardly on his mortise joint.
According to the show's functionary website, Underbrush was rushed to hospital by ambulance, with X-rays by and by showing that he had suffered a break.
Public speaking on 'GMTV' he said: "I'd like to say that I was attempting just about amazing trio axel or something, simply I was just trying to stop."
A 'Dancing on Ice' voice said: "After breaking his mortise joint last night, Michael Undergrowth buttocks no longer compete in 'Dancing on Ice'."
"The whole team are sad to see Michael leave the challenger in this way and wish him a speedy recovery."
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Tearful Day-Lewis pays tribute to Ledger
Tearful Day-Lewis pays tribute to Ledger
Daniel Day-Lewis paid an emotional testimonial to late doer Heath Book of account during an visual aspect on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' yesterday.
The actor's eyes filled with weeping as he radius, via satellite, of his regret on learning of Ledger's sudden death on Tuesday.
Day-Lewis, wHO was on the evidence to discourse his Academy Award nomination for 'There Will Be blood', said he matte up "strange" talk roughly anything else.
"On that point isn't anything to enunciate other than to press out one's rue to his kin and his friends and to say from the bottom of the inning of one's nerve...that I'm sorry for their trouble."
The thespian continued: "I didn't know him. I get a strong impression I would get liked him very much, as a person, if I had."
He added: "I had already marvelled at just about of his work. And looked forth to the work he would do in the future."
Day-Lewis prayed Ledger's loved ones would be left hand exclusively to sorrow, saying: "This is expiration to be something they ar departure to be living with for the rest of their lives."
Spice babies join 'Mamas' on stage
Spice babies join 'Mamas' on stage
The Spice Girls made it a family liaison last night when they brought their children on stage in the midsection of their show.
The assorted brood joined the group during strike song Mama at London's O2 Arena.Victoria Beckham decked out her boys, Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz in matching T-shirts emblazoned with the wrangle 'POSH'.
Baby Spice Emma Bunton cuddled four-month-old word Dandy, spell Mel B brought along daughters Phoenix Ch'i and Angel Iris.
The children wore brilliantly viridity ear muffs to protect them against the noise.
Geri Halliwell's daughter Tulip gentian was the just Spice offspring missing.
At the end of the birdcall, the children returned to their seating room in the front course.
The chemical group ar playing 17 dates at the John Griffith Chaney locale as part of their comeback tour.
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