The News Review:
- Ahmet Ertegun – Music – Appreciation – New York Times
- Music Review | ‘Lou Reed – Berlin’
- Barrie Marshall Tribute: The man behind music’s great stars.
- Music gets you talking.
- Soprano praises ‘best choir’
- Threat gang poses to police examined
Ahmet Ertegun – Music – Appreciation – New York Times
New York Times – Dec 16, 2006
Ertegun who died on Thursday at 83 was an old-school music mogul a self-invented character with the urge to start a record company. He was by all accounts a charmer: a man of wealth and taste who had stories to tell a shrewd business sense and a keen appreciation of all sorts of pleasure. He wasn’t a musician but he had an ear for a hit one that served him for half a century. Ertegun and a partner floated Atlantic Records in 1947 with a $10000 loan from a dentist it was one among many small independent labels trying to serve the taste of postwar America… In 2005 he told the online magazine Slate that he wanted his legacy to be that “I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music. ” Through the decades Mr. Ertegun never stopped visiting his beloved dives from R&B lounges to punk clubs. He always stood out dressed in his bespoke suits and expensive shoes; he never lost his Turkish accent. But he was an outsider who had become something more than an insider an American phenomenon who proved the best way to cross boundaries was with the promise of a good time.
Music Review | ‘Lou Reed – Berlin’
New York Times – Dec 16, 2006
Instead of the stripped-down rock that made punk archetypes of Mr. Reed’s best-known songs the sound of “Berlin” was not primal but theatrical with strings and horns and touches of cabaret. The album was either dismissed as pretentious and overwrought or hailed for its ambition; it didn’t sell but it garnered some lifelong fans. After 33 years it had its first staged performance at St. Ann’s Warehouse on Thursday night… Reed and the musicians performed in front of video projected on a patterned backdrop creating fragmented glimpses of characters in the songs and giving impressions of the narrative rather than enactments of it. The music stayed rightfully at center stage: close to the album’s original arrangements but with more room for guitar solos more clarity and the immediacy and dynamics of a concert. Reed wasn’t revisiting his songs as oldies or artifacts; he was reinhabiting them. The core of “Berlin” is the contrast between feelings love anger grief and the numbness of pills casual sex and depression. Caroline and Jim the couple whose story takes place in Berlin are not particularly sympathetic even among the many lowlife characters who have populated Mr.
Barrie Marshall Tribute: The man behind music’s great stars.
Free with registration – Music Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 16, 2006
–>CPYRIGHT 2006 CMP Information Ltd. Music Week pays tribute to the career of legendary concert promoter Barrie Marshall the man who for the past 30 years has transformed young hopefuls – such as The Commodores Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner through to Pink and Katie Melua among many others – into superstar box office attractions. Billy Sloan revisits his career high points The walls of Barrie Marshall’s office reflect his standing as one of rock’s top concert promoters. There are posters and plaques marking landmark shows by acts such as Paul McCartney Tina Turner Lionel Richie Stevie Wonder Bon Jovi Whitney Houston Pink and the Spice Girls. But there is one item of gig memorabilia which really underlines his reputation as a hands-on promoter. It is The Golden Mop which was presented to Barrie by Paul and Linda McCartney during their 1989-90 World Tour for services above and beyond the call of duty.
Music gets you talking.
Free with registration – Music Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 16, 2006
–>CPYRIGHT 2006 CMP Information Ltd. Peter Thompson managing director Vital “Being of a certain age I’m heavily influenced by music post 1976. Before this I was more bothered about Leeds United than I was music although like most other kids around me we all owned Led Zeppelin albums hence the inclusion of Immigrant Song.
Soprano praises ‘best choir’
Deseret News – Dec 16, 2006
“I am amazed at how the directors — Mack Wilberg and Craig Jessop — can control and guide all these voices. Sissel born Sissel Kyrkjebo in Norway is no stranger to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She first appeared with the choir in May 2005 for a broadcast of “Music and the Spoken Word” which honored the 100th anniversary of Norway’s independence. “I had heard of the choir before then” said Sissel. “And I knew many people who have performed with the choir. They always told me ‘If you get a chance to sing with the choir do it. It is the best choir in the world… They are the best-sounding choir I have ever heard. Throughout her career Sissel has performed with choirs orchestras bands and a variety of artists whose styles range from folk to jazz to rock to punk to hip-hop. Among those with whom she has appeared onstage are opera icon Placido Domingo rap star Warren G. Irish troubadours The Chieftains punk band Sort Sol Neil Sedaka and Diana Krall. However she said Thursday night’s dress rehearsal which was open to the public was a first — a rehearsal in front of 21000 people. “The conference center was filled” she said with another laugh.
Threat gang poses to police examined
CRegister – Dec 16, 2006
But it was neo-Nazism and methamphetamine that bonded their brotherhood. A highly organized and corrupt leadership helped Public Enemy Number 1 evolve over the past quarter-decade from music fans and casual drug users to a violent skinhead gang that has mauled and killed its way through the methamphetamine trade across much of Southern California. n Thursday hundreds of local state and federal investigators rounded up 57 members of the gang and affiliates law-enforcement officials said after threats were made to assault and kill several local police officers and at least one range County prosecutor who tried to crack down on the gang’s drug counterfeiting and white collar criminal operations. range County officials began planning a multi-agency assault on the gang which turned up illegal weapons drugs and dozens of parole and probation violations three weeks after word surfaced of a hit list aimed at law officers… But it was neo-Nazism and methamphetamine that bonded their brotherhood. A highly organized and corrupt leadership helped Public Enemy Number 1 evolve over the past quarter-decade from music fans and casual drug users to a violent skinhead gang that has mauled and killed its way through the methamphetamine trade across much of Southern California. n Thursday hundreds of local state and federal investigators rounded up 57 members of the gang and affiliates law-enforcement officials said after threats were made to assault and kill several local police officers and at least one range County prosecutor who tried to crack down on the gang’s drug counterfeiting and white collar criminal operations. range County officials began planning a multi-agency assault on the gang which turned up illegal weapons drugs and dozens of parole and probation violations three weeks after word surfaced of a hit list aimed at law officers. Gang investigators spent Friday sifting through evidence and talking to the dozens of people arrested to assess the threat. “At this point we’re still investigating whether it was a personal vendetta or whether it was an actual gangwide order” said Lt.