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Story Archives of 'music'
Not Your Grandpa's Lute
By John Diliberto on Thursday, November 19, 2009.The lute brings to mind images of Medieval royalty, slowly promenading across a decadent ballroom floor. For lutenist Ronn McFarlane, this couldn’t be further from reality.
Docs Who Rock
By Jen Nathan on Tuesday, November 17, 2009.These funk meisters are more than guitar heroes. They’re also soon-to-be doctors and orthodontists from Philadelphia’s most prestigious medical schools. The band Freaks of Nurture pick up their guitars, horns, and electric bass when they’re not learning how to perform surgery or treat hypertension.
Sadly, there was no winner at this year’s Med School Battle of the Bands. The Aerosmith and Black Eyed Peas covers were too compelling to pick just one stand-out band.
Tim Crouch's Vision of England
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, November 10, 2009.
British playwright and performer Tim Crouch enjoys challenging our notions of theater. His latest play, England, is transplanted from the typical theater setting into an art gallery. He and actress Hannah Ringham play one character – not identified as male or female - who desperately needs a heart transplant. As the character travels to a foreign country to receive a new heart, the play provokes questions about the commercial value of art, and of human life.
As Time Out magazine wrote in a review of England, "Tim Crouch is... conceptual without being obscure; experimental without losing the plot, or indeed faith in the power of words to move you." Tim Crouch joins us from the studios at Dartmouth College, where he’s performing England tonight and tomorrow at the Hood Museum of Art.
Watch an excerpt from the second act of England, as performed at the Fruitmarket Gallery during the Edinburgh Festival 2007:
Ben Neill: Mutantrumpet Ninja
By John Diliberto on Tuesday, November 10, 2009.
Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and electronics. Neill deploys this contraption in electronica forays full of morphing rhythms and melodies that shift through timbral voices as if they were injected into a kaleidoscope.
Echo Locations: Karda Estra
By John Diliberto on Thursday, November 5, 2009.
Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. Wileman started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for chamber ensembles and electric guitar. His imagery tends toward the gothic and his music to the dramatic.
John Diliberto talked to him about his sound as part of the "Echolocation" series.
