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Richard Gehr | July 20, 2007
Alan Gilbert, the forty-year-old son of two Philharmonic violinists, will be the New York Philharmonic's new musical director. His pedigree also helps makes him the first native New Yorker to hold the job. He will succeed Lorin Maazel in 2009.
The provenance of this alleged 1973 Sausalito, California, Bob Marley & the Wailers radio broadcast may be a little iffy, but it's still a terrific show.
Los Lobos, who once told me that it was a band policy to return home at least every two weeks on the road, will be touring for the next few months beginning today in Reno, Nevada. And lo and behold, note the several-day gaps in their schedule....Lucinda Williams continues her trek up and down the East Coast tomorrow in Pittsburgh....Merle Haggard spends the first half of August alone on the road, beginning August 2 in Owensboro, Kentucky, before rejoining Willie Nelson and Ray Price to continue the "Last of the Breed" tour August 17 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
I heard laughter during Sunday's BBC Proms Broadcast of the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, but I didn't realize there were pillow fights involved. As Jessica Duchen writes,
It would be so easy for an event like this to become portentous and preachy, but that was never going to happen: the Compagnie Roussat-Lubek, founded by two dancers who trained in mime, circus and acrobatics as well as ballet, offered such quirky imagination, from orange frock coats to pillow fights to a ballerina in a false nose tossing glitter over the tenor, that joyousness remained uppermost for its own sake. Then in came their secret weapon: a cherubic, curly-haired little boy, who we reckoned couldn't be more than 4 years old yet performed with the assurance of all the adult dancers on the stage with him. Imagine the noise in the RAH [Royal Albert Hall]!
Led Zeppelin—The Ride, a sixty-five-miles-per-hour heartbreaker recently completed at the Hard Rock Park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, joins the pantheon of musical roller-coasters alongside Dolly's Iron Butterfly at Dollywood.
Architect Frank Gehry will transform the stage of Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall into an intimate Portuguese bar for the October 28 performance of the fado singer known simply as Mariza. That sounds like the opposite of saudade.
