Beautiful notes, beautiful thrills
Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 09:41
Last update: about 9 years ago
Maltese soprano, Claire Debono graduated with an MMus from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with Laura Sarti. Her stellar, international career has also featured a...
Tosca - splendidly baroque
Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 08:54
Last update: about 9 years ago
Puccini's 'Tosca' is not the grandest and most spectacular of operas. It is a story of lust, love, a thirst for power in every sense of the word. It is an opera where, most typically of...
Vulnerability key to country singer Brett Young's breakout
Monday, 29 October 2018, 14:13
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
"In Case You Didn't Know," a love ballad by country singer Brett Young, has been added to a lot of wedding playlists since it came out in 2017, but it has put Young in an awkward position for his own...
'Life Itself' is star-studded, earnest but lacking
Monday, 29 October 2018, 12:38
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Hallmark sentimentality, passionate defenses of Bob Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" and horrific head traumas are thrown together in Dan Fogelman's "Life Itself ," a curious cocktail of a movie from the...
'Small Fry' more than a Steve Jobs story
Monday, 29 October 2018, 12:11
Last update: about 9 years ago
"Small Fry: A Memoir" (Grove Press), by Lisa Brennan-Jobs The ghost of Steve Jobs haunts "Small Fry," the memoir by his first daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs. He looms larger than life even on the...
Underwood struggles to get personal on 'Cry Pretty'
Friday, 26 October 2018, 14:11
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Carrie Underwood, "Cry Pretty" (Capitol Records Nashville) For the first time in her career, Carrie Underwood took over co-producing duties on her new album, "Cry Pretty," and co-wrote nine of...
Quincy Jones at 85: 'I'm too old to be full of it'
Friday, 26 October 2018, 12:36
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Quincy Jones holds out his hands. Like Jones, an easy raconteur, they tell stories. There's a small scar from when he, as a youngster in 1930s Chicago, accidently wandered into a gang's...