I was eleven when I saw Skid Row for the first time. They were on the tour promoting their third album, Subhuman Race, and they were still with their former lead singer, Sebastian Bach. The band played an arena in Seoul, Korea and the arena was packed with thousands of people singing along their popular tunes like "I Remember You" and "Youth Gone Wild.
0 CommentsI shall begin this review of the musical Hairspray (now playing at the Bushnell until Oct. 5) with two definitions essential to understanding my point of view. In my own performance art, I am primarily an expressionist, which simply means that my artwork is motivated by my own feelings and my desire to express them publicly.
0 CommentsIt takes an almost daring ambition to name an album The Greatest Story Ever Told, and it seems that only a band like Lawrence Arms, with their blend of honest tales-in-song and lack of self-importance might achieve this. Though the Lawrence Arms fall somewhat short of weaving the greatest story ever told, what came out was an impressively accessible album of dirty, but emotional punk rock.
1 Comments"It is difficult to arrange every phenomenon into its place and oneself remain un-deranged," reads German puppeteer Michael Vogel from the diary of composer Robert Schumann, the subject of Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel's Toccata. It is equally difficult to arrange every aspect of Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel's Toccata into a cohesive analysis without deranging the meaning of the piece.
2 CommentsHow would you sum up your life in a single sentence? Would you try to pass on wise words, or scribble down a phrase in a fit of emotion? Browsing any local cemetery you might discover some interesting epitaphs that make you laugh, cry, or run away in fear.
0 CommentsLost in Translation is the story of the relationship that forms between two people who could not be more disparate. Bill Murray plays Bob, a washed up actor who is in Tokyo to complete the dehumanizing task of being a whiskey spokesperson. Charlotte, played by Scarlett Johansen, is a 25-year-old who has just finished graduate school.
I like to close my eyes when listening to live music. Ryan Brodeur's performance in the Underground reminded me why. Closing my eyes makes me a better listener. We normally depend so heavily on visual stimulants to give us information about our environment, closing my eyes makes me more aware of my other senses.
This season's first Twilight Tuesday concert in the Trinity College Chapel begins with a performance by the celebrated young American organist, Paul Jacobs, on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 5 p.m. A graduate of the Curtis Institute and Yale, Mr. Jacobs is currently on the organ faculty of the Juilliard School in New York.
