Summer Guide 2009: Music

Written by admin on May 28, 2009. Posted in Special Sections

Bronx Underground Festival Hip-hop, indie rock, skateboarding, dancing and more will happen this summer as part of the Bronx Underground Festival, a series of events taking place in the fest’s namesake borough and beyond. Check out the June 21 outdoor concert at Orchard Beach or the May 29 dance parties where an ’80s outfit will
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Voigt Preps for a ‘Vocal Challenge’

Written by admin on May 21, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Music

Soprano Deborah Voigt has risen to the top of the opera world by singing the parts of the demanding, dramatic heroines in the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. So is taking on the title role in Alceste, a baroque work by Christoph Willibald Gluck that will be performed by The Collegiate Chorale on
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THE PIRATE'S RETURN

Written by admin on November 24, 2008. Posted in Arts & Film, Music

European cabaret legend Ute Lemper is making Joe’s Pub her second home for the last two weeks of November, headlining in her new show “Pirate Jenny Comes Back.” The chanteuse will be singing a pastiche of Kurt Weill’s works, Berlin Cabaret Songs, French chanson, contemporary American classics and a few selections from her self-penned album
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GIOVANNI'S 'TRUTH' COMES TO THE IRIDIUM

Written by admin on September 16, 2008. Posted in Arts & Film, Music

The hamburger is not good, the overflow crowd of tourists from Ellen’s Stardust Diner upstairs creates precisely the wrong vibe and the amplification seems excessive. But there’s a fantastic time to be had with the sweet combination of Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen, now playing at the Iridium Jazz Club. She’s a blow-’em-away Broadway musical
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