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Music News Reviews Mass at California's Cabrillo Music Festival

Mass, subtitled" one legitimate stage add for of singers, players and dancers," what constituted by Yohanes F. Kennedy Memusat for Carrying Out Arts in Washington in 1971. Bernstein infuse approximant score every style possibly, from atonalas fully until pop song as he test issue from believe in the troubled time.
BSO music director and Bernstein protege Marin Alsop will conduct the Carnegie performance Oct. 24, as well as another concert the next day at the United Palace Theater, a restored vaudeville/movie venue in the uptown New York neighborhood of Washington Heights. The second performance will involve hundreds of New York City public-school students.
Critical reaction tended toward the negative, if not downright hostile, but the work gradually won champions over the years, among them Alsop, who studied conducting with Bernstein.
"I think it's a terrific piece," she said yesterday from her Colorado home. "It feels to me far more topical than when it was written. The themes really are universal. It asks: What does religion mean? What does faith mean? Why are we so divided, and how can we come together? It's a very healing kind of piece."
Carnegie Hall's citywide music festival, "Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds," commemorates the 90th anniversary of the conductor/composer's birth and the 50th anniversary of his appointment as music director of the New York Philharmonic.
The Philharmonic, which Bernstein led for 11 memorable years, will be led by music director Lorin Maazel and music director designate Alan Gilbert. The San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, will open the music festival, which runs from Sept. 24-Dec. 13 and includes a wide range of performances, lectures and more throughout New York.
Shortly after becoming BSO music director designate in 2005, Alsop began discussing the prospect of producing the Bernstein work in Baltimore and New York. Local performances of Mass will take place a week before the New York ones. (The BSO will announce its full 2008-2009 season in February.)
Alsop's 1999 presentation of Mass at California's Cabrillo Music Festival, where she is music director, played to sold-out houses. In 2005, she won praise from the British press for a performance of the work with the London Music Symphony Orchestra, although Mass itself still generated some carping - one critic called it "tripe."
"People who respond to it like that aren't listening with fresh ears," Alsop said.
For more information on Carnegie Hall's Bernstein music festival, go to Carnegiehall
Balanced budgetAn official audit of the BSO's 2007 fiscal year, to be released later this week, will confirm what board chairman Michael Bronfein announced at the orchestra's annual gala in September: a successfully balanced budget. The audit will even show a surplus.This achievement follows years of accumulated deficits. The BSO's annual budget is about $25 million.
There is similar good fiscal news elsewhere around the country. In recent weeks, the San Francisco Symphony (annual budget $58 million) and the Minnesota Orchestra ($31 million) announced balanced budgets and unexpected surpluses.
Holiday treatsIf you're looking for classical holiday CDs with a local connection, two former BSO music directors can oblige.From RCA comes Karolju, a collection of Christmas works by Christopher Rouse, Witold Lutoslawksi and Joaquin Rodrigo, all with David Zinman conducting the BBC Music Symphony Orchestra.
Baltimore-based Rouse wrote Karolju (he made up the word) for the BSO in 1991. Brilliantly orchestrated, the score strings together short pieces in a variety of languages. Rouse wrote the texts, which he describes as "not intelligibly translatable for long periods of time" (sure enough, no translations are provided). Instead, the mere sound of the words is meant to evoke Christmas, which is exactly what happens. The music, too, seems almost as familiar on first hearing as well-worn carols.
Zinman leads a charming performance in this premiere recording of Rouse's seasonal salute (the fine Philharmonia Chorus does the singing). Rodrigo's Retablo de Navidad and selections from Lutoslawski's Polish Christmas Carols likewise prove endearing.
Yuri Temirkanov and his powerhouse St. Petersburg Philharmonic offer Tchaikovsky's beloved Nutcracker Suite on a new EMI release clearly aimed at holiday shoppers. I wish they had done the compete ballet score, given how Temirkanov's affinity for this music is so strong and the playing here so vivid. But the suite certainly sparkles.
The recording is filled out with non-Christmasy works - flavorful, virtuosic accounts of Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije and a warhorse not necessarily associated with Temirkanov, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas.Baltimoresun

Sues The Romantics Band

The Romantics Band have founded a federal lawsuit against Activision Inc., the maker of "Guitar Hero,". This case are sues about popular video game infringes on the band's rights by featuring a soundalike recording of its 1980 hit "What I Like About You."

Information from Baltimoresun, that The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in the group's hometown of Detroit, seeks unspecified damages.

The song is one of about 30 songs featured on "Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the '80s." The band also is seeking an injunction that could take the best-selling game off store shelves.

A copyright claim isn't the issue for the Romantics. The band's attorneys tell the Detroit Free Press that Activision properly secured permission to use "What I Like About You," allowing it to record a cover version.

They very disappoint this matter. They hope this occurence will not be recurred again. And they hope this case immediately be handled swiftly.

Led Zeppelin Tour Around The World

At 2008 informed from group of this rock band will do concert in various state. This statement informed to public for state to in visiting. MTV.com reports that Ian Astbury, lead singer of the Cult, announced the band would be opening for Brit rock gods Led Zeppelin on their tour next year. Astbury let the cat out of the bag during a club show in Cincinnati. “We'll be back next year,” Astbury said halfway through the Cult’s gig at Bogart's nightclub Saturday night. “Because we're opening for a band you may have heard of ... the name starts with an ‘L’ and has a ‘Z’ in it.” Stunned looks bounced around the room until one sweat-drenched show attendee shouted, “Led Zeppelin!” When asked about Astbury's seeming confirmation of the world tour, says MTV, spokespeople for the Cult and Zeppelin both declined to comment.

Zeppelin's spokesperson added that no decision has been made on any Led Zeppelin tour and the band is simply focusing on its appearance at the Ahmet Ertegun tribute concert in London on December 10; a Cult spokesperson declined to answer questions about Astbury's comment.

But not surely lay open state to be made a first visit. And what song are they to play.

The Cranberries Hits

Customer Review that Stars is the best album of the cranberries. The most helpful favorable review from 48 reviews, 33 reviews choise starts is the best album version. But from opinion cranberries fans in Ohio, USA that favorite song is probably "Ode To My family" which I have always found sort of endearing for some reason. Zombie is a greatest hits hard-rocking rate among it best and it must have thought so too. Cranberries zombie music video controversy, many people called it. I don't know why, but this is opinion public about zombie music video.

The Cranberries Biography

Combining the melodic jangle of post-Smiths indie guitar pop with the lilting, trance-inducing sonic textures of late-'80s dream pop and adding a slight Celtic tint, the Cranberries became one of the more successful groups to emerge from the pre-Britpop U.K. indie scene of the early '90s. Led by vocalist Dolores O'Riordan, whose keening, powerful voice is the most distinctive element of the group's sound, the group initially made little impact in the United Kingdom. It wasn't until the lush ballad "Linger" became an American hit in 1993 that the band also achieved mass success in the U.K. Following the success of "Linger," the Cranberries quickly became international stars, as both their 1993 debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, and its 1994 follow-up, No Need to Argue, sold millions of copies and produced a string of hit singles. By the time of their third album, 1996's To the Faithful Departed, the group had added distorted guitars to its sonic palette and attempted to make more socially significant music, which resulted in a downturn in the band's commercial fortunes.

Originally, the Cranberries were a band called the Cranberry Saw Us. Brothers Noel and Mike Hogan (guitar and bass, respectively) formed the band in Limerick, Ireland, with drummer Fergal Lawler in 1990. Following the departure of the group's original singer, Niall, the trio placed an advertisement for a female singer. Dolores O'Riordan responded to the advertisement and auditioned by writing lyrics and melodies to some of the band's existing demos. When she returned with a rough version of "Linger," the group hired her on the spot. Shortly after she joined, the band recorded a demo tape that they sold in record stores throughout Ireland. After the original run of 300 copies sold out, the group truncated their name to the Cranberries and sent another demo tape, which featured early versions of both "Linger" and "Dreams," to record companies throughout the U.K. The tape was made at Xeric Studios, which was run by Pearse Gilmore, who would later become their manager. At the time the tape was made, all of the members were still in their late teens.

The demo tape earned the attention of both the U.K. press and record industry, and there soon was a bidding war between major British record labels. Eventually, the group signed with Island Records. The Cranberries headed into the studio with Gilmore as their producer to record their first single, "Uncertain." The title proved to be prophetic, as the band did indeed sound ill at ease on the single, leading to poor reviews in the press, in addition to tensions between the group and Gilmore. Before they were scheduled to record their debut in 1992, the Cranberries discovered that Gilmore had signed a secret deal with Island to improve his studios. The tensions within the band became so great they nearly broke up. Instead, the band severed all relations with Gilmore, hired Geoff Travis of Rough Trade as their new manager, and hired Stephen Street, who had previously worked with the Smiths, as their new producer.

The Cranberries' debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, was released in the spring of 1993, followed by a single of "Dreams." Neither the album or the single gained much attention, nor did a second single, "Linger." In the summer and fall of 1993, the band toured the United States, opening for The The and Suede, respectively; frequently, the Cranberries were given a friendlier reception than either of the headliners. The strong live shows led to MTV putting "Linger" into heavy rotation. By the end of the year, the single was on its way to becoming a crossover hit. Eventually, the single reached number eight on the U.S. charts, while the album went double platinum. Everybody Else and "Linger" began to take off in Britain in early 1994; the album eventually peaked at number one during the summer.

O'Riordan married the band's tour manager, Don Burton, in a much-publicized ceremony in July 1994. The marriage, as well as the group's videos, emphasized the singer as the focal point of the band. O'Riordan's position in the group continued to rise with the fall release of the group's second album, No Need to Argue. Boasting a slightly harder, more streamlined sound, yet still produced by Stephen Street, the record debuted at number six on the U.S. charts and eventually outsold its predecessor; within a year it went triple platinum, spawning the number one modern rock hit "Zombie" and the number 11 "Ode to My Family."

During the tour for No Need to Argue, rumors began to circulate that O'Riordan was going to leave the band to pursue a solo career, all of which the band vehemently denied. Nevertheless, the rumors persisted until the band began recording their third album with producer Bruce Fairbairn, who had previously worked with Aerosmith. The resulting album, To the Faithful Departed, was a tougher, more rock-oriented album. Upon its spring 1996 release, the album entered the charts at number six, but its first single, "Salvation," failed to become a hit on par with "Zombie," "Linger," or "Ode to My Family." Consequently, the album slipped down the charts relatively quickly and only went platinum, which was slightly disappointing in light of its two predecessors' multi-platinum status.

During the fall of 1996, the group canceled their Australian and European tour, sparking another round of rumors of whether O'Riordan was about to launch a solo career. In 1999, the group released Bury the Hatchet, and in 2003, shortly after the release of a greatest-hits compilation, Stars: The Best of 1992-2002, the Cranberries officially declared that they were taking a break. This finally gave O'Riordan the time she needed to work on her long-talked-about solo album, and Are You Listening hit shelves in 2007. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide.

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Biography Britney Spears

More than any other single artist, Britney Spears was the driving force behind the return of teen pop in the late '90s. The blockbuster success of the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys certainly paved the way for her own commercial breakthrough, but Spears didn't just become a star -- she was a bona fide pop phenomenon. Not only did she sell millions of records, she was a media fixture regardless of what she was (or wasn't) doing; among female singers of the era (many of whom followed in her footsteps), her celebrity star power was rivaled only by Jennifer Lopez. From the outset, Spears' sex appeal was an important part of her image; the video for her debut single, "...Baby One More Time," outfitted her in full Catholic-school regalia, and sent her well on the way to becoming an international sex symbol. Yet Spears' handlers seemed to be trying to have it both ways -- there was a definite tension between the wholesome innocence Spears tried to project for her female audience, and the titillating sexuality that enticed so many male fans. Those marketing tactics made Spears a somewhat controversial figure, the subject of endless debates concerning appropriate role models for teenage girls. Early on, Spears tried to defuse the controversy by preaching abstinence until marriage, and even denied that she was consciously cultivating such a sexualized image. Of course, the more provocative and revealing her on-stage wardrobe became, the less plausible that claim seemed. But apart from her ability to tiptoe the line between virginal coquette and brazen tart, Spears had a secret weapon in Swedish pop mastermind Max Martin, who had a hand in the vast majority of her hits as a writer and/or producer. With Martin crafting the sort of contemporary dance-pop and sentimental ballads that made stars of the Backstreet Boys, Spears kept on delivering the goods commercially, as her first three albums all topped the charts.

Britney Jean Spears was born December 2, 1981, in the small town of Kentwood, LA, and began performing as a singer and dancer at a young age. With a nationally televised appearance on Star Search already under her belt, Spears auditioned for the Disney Channel's The New Mickey Mouse Club at age eight. The producers turned her down as too young, but one of them took an interest and introduced her to an agent in New York. Spears spent the next three years studying at the Professional Performing Arts School, and also appeared in several television commercials and off-Broadway plays. At 11, she returned to The New Mickey Mouse Club for a second audition, and this time made the cut. Although her fellow Mouseketeers included an impressive array of future stars -- *NSYNC's Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, Christina Aguilera, and Felicity actress Keri Russell -- the show was canceled after Spears' second season. She returned to New York at age 15 and set about auditioning for pop bands and recording demo tapes, one of which eventually landed her a deal with Jive Records.

Spears entered the studio with top writer/producers like Eric Foster White (Boyzone, Whitney Houston, Backstreet Boys) and Max Martin (Ace of Base, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC). In late 1998, Jive released her debut single, the Martin-penned "...Baby One More Time." Powered by its video, in which Spears and a troupe of dancers were dressed as Catholic-school jailbait, the single shot to the top of the Billboard charts. When Spears' debut album of the same title was released in early 1999, it entered the charts at number one and stayed there for six weeks. Once the ubiquitous lead single died down, the album kept spinning off hits: the Top Ten "(You Drive Me) Crazy," the near-Top 20 ballad "Sometimes," and the Top 20 "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart." By the end of 1999, ...Baby One More Time had sold ten million copies, and went on to sell a good three million more on top of that. Its success touched off a wave of young pop divas that included Christina Aguilera, Pink, Jessica Simpson, and Mandy Moore. Spears was a superstar, drooled over in countless magazines, including a Rolling Stone cover that prompted immediate speculation about the still-17 year old having gotten breast implants.

By the time ...Baby One More Time finally started to lose steam on the singles and album charts, Spears was ready to release her follow-up. Oops!...I Did It Again appeared in the spring of 2000, and the title track was an instant smash, racing into the Top Ten. The album entered the charts at number one and sold over a million copies in its first week of release, setting a new record for single-week sales by a female artist. Follow-up singles included "Lucky," the gold-selling "Stronger," and "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," which was co-written by country diva Shania Twain and her producer Mutt Lange. A year after its release, Oops!...I Did It Again had sold over nine million copies. Rumors that Spears was dating *N Sync heartthrob (and fellow ex-Mouseketeer) Justin Timberlake were eventually confirmed, which only added to the media attention lavished on her.

For her next album, Spears looked ahead to a not-so-distant future when both she and much of her audience would be growing up. Released in late 2001, Britney tried to present the singer as a more mature young woman, and was accompanied by mild hints that her personal life wasn't always completely puritanical. It became her third straight album to debut at number one, although this time around the singles weren't as successful; "I'm a Slave 4 U," "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman," and "Overprotected" all missed the Top Ten. In early 2002, Spears' feature-film debut, Crossroads, hit theaters, but its commercial performance was somewhat disappointing; moreover, her romance with Timberlake fizzled not long after. Spears next made a cameo appearance in Mike Myers' Austin Powers: Goldmember, and contributed a remix of "Boys" to the soundtrack. Meanwhile, sales of Britney stalled at four million copies, perhaps in part because a new breed of teenage female singer/songwriters, like Michelle Branch and Avril Lavigne, was emerging as an alternative to the highly packaged teen queens. Spears took a break from recording and performing for several months, and began work on a new album in early 2003. The results, In the Zone, reflected a wish to be taken seriously as a mature (though still highly sexualized) adult. Predictably, it topped the charts and launched several singles into orbit, including the musically adventurous "Toxic," "Everytime," and "Me Against the Music."
In the Zone hit number one on the Billboard 200, and "Toxic" snagged a Grammy for Best Dance Recording. But by 2004 there were no longer any illusions of Britney's personal life being all wholesome candy canes and kisses. First there was the star's bizarre two-day marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander, followed by the controversial, highly sexualized Onyx Hotel tour, which was eventually canceled (allegedly because of a knee injury) despite positive financial numbers. Starbucks and cigarettes were Britney's constant accessories in the endless paparazzi photos, and the revelation of her relationship with former backup dancer Kevin Federline made the tabloids even more ravenous. Spears and Federline married in September and were tabloid regulars in the months after the ceremony. (A photo of a barefoot Britney leaving a dingy gas station bathroom made the Internet rounds.) The couple also starred in Chaotic, a UPN reality show consisting mostly of their own home videos that was met with howls from the critics and blogs.

2005 was no less eventful for Spears. She released Greatest Hits: My Prerogative that January, but it was the announcement of her pregnancy that really garnered the headlines. Sean Preston Federline was born in September, and a bidding war ensued for first rights to the baby photos. As the hubbub surrounding Sean's birth continued, Britney released a remix album just in time for the holiday season. In 2006,Spears discovered she was pregnant again; shortly after the birth of her second son, Jayden James Federline, she divorced Federline. Early in 2007, Spears went to Malibu, CA's Promises Treatment Center; when she left, she began working on her comeback album and performed a few small shows at House of Blues locations in Los Angeles, San Diego, Anaheim, and Las Vegas that May. Later that summer, however, plans to release an album were pushed back to 2008. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

Written by Steve Huey.

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