By Steve Jansen Earlier this week, the group formerly known as the Phoenix Bach Choir announced that they have changed their name to the Phoenix Chorale. Along with the more contemporary-friendly sounding moniker comes a slick new logo (as seen above) and a cool redesigned Web site that is still...
By Benjamin Leatherman DJ William Fucking Reed will be doing an after-hours spin session at Modified Arts tonigh...err, Saturday morning starting at 1:30 a.m. There’s gonna be plenty to see and do at the monthly First Friday art walk. As Lilia Menconi wrote earlier today, Chaos Theory 9 will be...
One Thursday last spring, Ted Myers was stuck in a cubicle, trying to figure out his future. He'd graduated from ASU with a degree in communications the year before, and got a job selling ads for a local newspaper (coincidentally, the one you're reading), where he dressed business casual and...
On a recent First Friday, I dispensed with the art early to take in some music. But instead of the folk singers, experimental rock acts, and hip-hop I usually catch on Roosevelt Row during one of these chaotic art-walk nights, I was headed to hear the Grammy Award-winning Phoenix Bach...
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of tagging along with the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale at the 50th annual Grammy Awards . At the end of the day, they took home one phonograph statuette for “Best Engineered Album, Classical” during a star-studded affair in Los Angeles. (For a full list of winners, go to http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/50th_show/list.aspx)
Name a Phoenix-based musical act that’s been nominated for five Grammys in the same year. Alice Cooper? False. CeCe Peniston? Uh, no. Jimmy Eat World? Gross, dude. Phoenix Bach Choir? Say what? Say yes to the following nominations for the choral group: • Best Classical Album • Best Choral Performance...
Name a Phoenix-based musical act that’s been nominated for five Grammys in the same year. Alice Cooper? False. CeCe Peniston? Uh, no. Jimmy Eat World? Gross, dude. Phoenix Bach Choir? Say what? Say yes to the following nominations for the choral group: • Best Classical Album • Best Choral Performance...
Name a Phoenix-based musical act that’s been nominated for five Grammys in the same year. Alice Cooper? False. CeCe Peniston? Uh, no. Jimmy Eat World? Gross, dude. Phoenix Bach Choir? Say what? Say yes to the following nominations for the choral group: • Best Classical Album • Best Choral Performance...
Name a Phoenix-based musical act that’s been nominated for five Grammys in the same year. Alice Cooper? False. CeCe Peniston? Uh, no. Jimmy Eat World? Gross, dude. Phoenix Bach Choir? Say what? Say yes to the following nominations for the choral group: • Best Classical Album • Best Choral Performance...
Okay, okay. What’s New Times doing reviewing a choral group? It’s gotta be some stale, pretentious stuff, accessible only to blue-haired old geezers, high-brow music connoisseurs, and aristocrats, yes? You’ve even heard that there are tea and crumpets during intermission like at an English cricket match at the Sussex County Cricket Club, right?
Listen up, P-Town peeps. When it comes to holidays, Halloween is the shizzle. What other day on the calendar allows you to transform yourself into a pimp, priest, or politician without getting glares from onlookers? Back during your juvie delinquent days, you spent most of the year agonizing over which...
Disney's Beauty and the Beast is exactly the kind of entertainment I deplore: a corporate-inspired translation of a cutie-pie musical cartoon adapted from classic literature. It's peopled by actors dressed in character costumes that all but swallow their performances, which are anyway built on attempts to ape the motion picture...
Admit it. The moment you hear the name ABBA, or see it in print, a jangly bit of one of the band's hit songs begins playing in your head. Maybe you hear the chugging intro to "Waterloo." Or the a cappella choral bridge from "Super Trouper." Probably it's the piano...
Fri 4/11 At first glance, the worlds of rock 'n' roll and golf couldn't be more disparate. One represents rebellion; the other remains the domain of gentlemanly comportment. On certain occasions, however, a dash of leather with your polyester, and a three-wood with your six-string, can be just what the...
With the arrival of Santa/Hanukkah Harry/Y2K still a couple of weeks off, the festive season is at its height this week, and, as a result, holiday concerts are abundant. Here's a run-down of a few of the possibilities: Phoenix Symphony -- Despite all the seasonal sounds around the Valley this...
Dance lovers with eclectic appetites can gorge on three very different dance performances in the Valley this weekend. The tops in jazz dance, ballet and the Brazilian martial arts/dance form Capoeira could all be on your plate. River North Dance Company takes its name from a tony Chicago neighborhood bordering...
Stories often wind up in the trash. But this one begins there, with letters I found in a Tempe alley two years ago. They were dumped among heaps of books, files and envelopes stuffed with bills and receipts. The discards were too dated to be those of a college roomie...
Dot Allison Afterglow (Deconstruction/Arista) From the vantage point of this side of the pond, Scottish outfit One Dove's early-'90s brief arc, yielding but one album (1993's Morning Dove White), may have seemed a mere blip emanating from the UK rave/house scene of the time. Same old story, y'know: DJs and...
thursday april 15 Lanford Wilson's influential play Balm in Gilead, set in the bustle of a Lower East Side coffee shop among, in the author's words, "the riffraff, the bums, the petty thieves, the scum, the lost, the desperate, the dispossessed, the cool," is presented by the Arizona State University...
thursday may 13 Athens, Georgia-based instrumental-surf-rockabilly-pop-punk blend The Woggles, touring in support of their Telstar Records CD Wailin' With the Woggles, hit the Valley on Thursday, May 13, at Mustang Sally's, 1212 East Apache in Tempe. Doors open at 9 p.m.; the 21-and-over show starts at 10. Erector Set, and...
Language Lessons I liked Michael Kiefer's lengthy article on the bilingual education issue in Arizona, which I found quite evenhanded, and much more in-depth than anything that had yet appeared in the dailies ("Bilingual Blues," March 18). Much of the most detailed and thorough coverage of the California initiative occurred...
thursday february 4 Probably the single greatest American contribution to the canon of world opera, George Gershwin's 1935 Porgy and Bess, is presented in a full concert version by Phoenix Symphony, with the ASU Choral Union and several distinguished soloists: James Butler as Porgy, Priscilla Baskerville as Bess, Theresa Hamm-Smith...
