• AARP Jukebox
  • Tour the Country with Tony Bennett
  • What is your music IQ?

More Music

Music

This blogger, Richard Gehr, is not an employee of AARP. The opinions expressed in the blog are not necessarily the opinions of AARP and AARP assumes no liability for the content posted by Mr. Gehr or any other participant

Richard Gehr | June 22, 2007

1 Comments

  • A German court has directed the heirs of composer Richard Strauss to share royalties for Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, and other works with the family of librettist Hugo von Hoffmansthal The Hoffmansthals sought 25 percent of royalties they estimated at a considerable half-million dollars per year in 2001 and 2002.

  • Guitarist John McLaughlin brings his new electric band 4th Dimension to North America this fall for his first non-acoustic tour here in nine years. The group includes Allan Holdsworth keyboardist-percussionist Gary Husband, Jeff Beck drummer Mark Mondesir, and bassist Hadrien Feraud. The tour begins September 13 in Durham, North Carolina.

  • The great Mexican ranchera singer Antonio Aguilar died of pneumonia Tuesday in Mexico City. The eighty-eight-year-old recorded some 150 albums and appeared in 167 films. He performs "Un Puño de Tierra" with his raucous traditional mariachi group here.

  • The dorkily named Hippiefest tour, which begins in Toronto on June 25, sounds like a blatant attempt to cash in on the hype surrounding the fortieth anniversary of the Summer of Love. Which doesn't mean the music won't be enjoyable, nostalgic, laughable, or some combination thereof. The changing lineup includes the Turtles, Felix Cavaliere's Rascals, the Zombies, Mitch Ryder, Mountain, Country Joe McDonald, Badfinger, Iron Butterfly, Denny Laine, and Melanie.

  • Milan's La Scala opera house has canceled its cancellation of a production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide that included a scene depicting President Bush, Tony Blair, and Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi dancing in their underwear.

    • Comments

    Jim Dandy says:

    Hello! I've been trying to promote music for seniors...primarily newer music for seniors (not the "golden oldies"), for several years. I've developed and refined my blog
    http://www.jimsdotcom.blogspot.com
    and perhaps your forum can boost my exposure. You'll be glad to know that I link to this AARP site on my blog. Jim Dandy

    06/22/07 03:28 PM

    Post a comment

    (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

    Disclaimer: You are fully responsible for the content that you post, and AARP assumes no responsibility for the messages or content of others. We also reserve the right to remove or edit postings because of length or other reasons in our sole discretion. Please do not post commercial messages. Please behave respectfully to other members of this blog community. We reserve the right to delete or edit comments that may be inflammatory, abusive, off-topic, obscene, sexually explicit, use excessive foul language, are of a personal nature, or are otherwise inappropriate. You agree that AARP, its affiliates and sublicensees can use your comment and derivative works based on your comment on this blog and in any other media. Please do not post personal contact information and do not impersonate other members of this blog community or anyone else. We reserve the right to change these rules at any time.