Journal
- Tuesday, November 19, 2024
"Here you have the guy who is speaking to the universality of the human experience in every molecule," Ken Burns tells Walter Isaacson on PBS's Amanpour & Co. about the subject of his latest film, Leonardo da Vinci. Sarah Burns, his co-director on the film with David McMahon, adds: "I think it's entirely central to who Leonardo was, that he had these interests across such a wide spectrum, and he didn't see those things as being separate. To him, all of these things were related and part of his larger effort to just understand the universe and everything he could about the human experience, the human body, and how all of these things are connected." You can watch their conversation here. You can watch LEONARDO da VINCI on PBS and hear Caroline Shaw's original score now.
Journal Topics: Television, Video
- Monday, January 28, 2019
Gaby Moreno once again sat in with the band on public radio's Live From Here with Chris Thile from Chicago this past weekend, joining Thile and guest Jason Isbell on vocals for a number of songs. She also performed a new song called "Nobody's Wrong," which you can watch here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Radio, VideoFriday, January 25, 2019Kronos Quartet showcases Fifty for the Future with Bay Area students in Berkeley … Sam Amidon is in Norway ... Laurie Anderson gives climate action event keynote in Houston ... Jeremy Denk plays solo in North Carolina and New York … Tigran Hamasyan tours UK … Gabriel Kahane brings Book of Travelers to San Francisco … Lake Street Dive concludes current US tour in New Orleans … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Chicago with Gaby Moreno …
Journal Topics: On Tour, Weekend EventsFriday, January 18, 2019Jonny Greenwood's acclaimed score to Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award–winning film There Will Be Blood, first released on Nonesuch in 2007, is now available on vinyl worldwide for the first time. Indiewire named it one of the 25 Best Movie Scores of the 21st Century. The LP was mastered for vinyl at Abbey Road Studios and pressed at Record Industry in the Netherlands with two additional tracks, and housed in an old-style gatefold jacket. The album is also available as an HD digital download for the first time.
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist NewsFriday, January 18, 2019Lake Street Dive will join The Avett Brothers as special guests on their US tour this summer, with shows in Kansas City, Salt Lake City, and Red Rocks in July, and out West in August with concerts in Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and California, including the Greek theaters in Berkeley and LA. Lake Street Dive is currently leading its own US headline tour and begins a European tour in April.
Journal Topics: Artist News, On TourFriday, January 18, 2019Gabriel Kahane brings Book of Travelers out West … Sam Amidon, Nico Muhly join Aurora Orchestra in London … Jeremy Denk is in Cleveland, Pittsburgh … Rhiannon Giddens is in Turin … Tigran Hamasyan joins Brussels Philharmonic, plays solo in Manchester … Lake Street Dive, Joshua Redman are in Florida … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Durham …
Journal Topics: On Tour, Weekend EventsFriday, January 18, 2019British rising country soul star Yola's debut solo album, Walk Through Fire, produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, will be released February 22, 2019, on Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound label, distributed by Nonesuch Records. "The moment I met Yola I was impressed," says Auerbach. "Her spirit fills the room, just like her voice … she has the ability to sing in a full roar or barely a whisper and that is a true gift." Videos for two songs from the album, "Faraway Look" and "Ride Out in the Country," can be seen here.
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist NewsFriday, January 18, 2019Laurie Anderson is among the jury members for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, which runs January 24 through February 3 in Utah. She will serve as a jury of one for the NEXT Innovator's Award. "Sundance Institute will gather 20 celebrated and revered expert voices across film, art, culture and science to award feature-length and short films shown at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival," say the organizers.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsThursday, January 17, 2019John Adams's Doctor Atomic has been nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Award for Opera. A jury of experts selected the nominees from recordings that received five-star reviews in the magazine. Winners will be chosen by public vote, which has begun, and announced at a ceremony in London on April 10.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsFriday, January 11, 2019John Adams leads LA Phil in world premiere of new Philip Glass symphony … Olivia Chaney performs in London … Jeremy Denk plays solo in Oregon … Tigran Hamasyan is in Tel Aviv … Emmylou Harris joins Willie Nelson celebration in Nasvhille … Kronos Quartet performs in San Francisco’s Exploratorium … Lake Street Dive plays US Southeast … Steve Reich’s Pulse receives Singapore premiere … Frederic Rzewski leads London residency … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Kansas City …
Journal Topics: On Tour, Weekend EventsTuesday, January 8, 2019A new track from pianist Jeremy Denk's forthcoming album, c. 1300–c. 2000, has been released: Brahms's Intermezzo in B Minor from Klavierstücke, Op. 119, No. 1. The piece can be heard here and is available to download now with album pre-orders, along with the previously released track, Binchois's Triste Plaisir.
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist NewsMonday, January 7, 2019Punch Brothers stopped by The Current not long after the release of their Grammy-nominated new album, All Ashore, last summer, to discuss and perform a few songs off the album. You can now watch them perform "Three Dots and a Dash" and "Jumbo" here. The band kicks off the next leg of its tour in March with Gabriel Kahane as special guest.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Radio, VideoFriday, January 4, 2019Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau were featured in this year's edition of NPR Music's Toast of the Nation, an annual New Year's Eve show of jazz performances. "These guys are great friends and have been playing together since the early '90s," says host Christian McBride. "A few years back, they decided to join forces once more to record a live album called Nearness. You can hear how well they connect musically." Hear it in their 2016 Blue Note Tokyo set via NPR here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Radio