Teen pianist fills his whole life with music
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Conrad Tao cannot remember a time when he was not playing an instrument.Music review: Lexington Singers rises to challenge
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Classical music audiences are so oriented to hearing works that are decades, if not centuries old, it can be easy to forget the thrill of hearing something brand new.
Singing in the new
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
A 50th-anniversary concert is often a chance to hit the archives and pull out grand old pieces that have sustained and been landmarks for a group over the decades. That's not what the Lexington Singers is doing, though.
Mates of State makes an instrumental change
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer
Let's address the seemingly biggest shift in Mates of State's music right off the bat. Since the duo's inception more than a decade ago, Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner constructed their luminously bright indie-pop songs almost exclusively on drums and keyboards. And not just any keyboards, but a 1970s organ with a huge, swelling and marvelously organic sound.Hot tickets: Juliana Hatfield, Bryan Adams, Rascal Flatts
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Critic's picks: Harold Budd and Clive Wright, Fripp & Eno
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Critic
While wading through Pensive Aphrodite, the hypnotic 32-minute opening suite on A Song for Lost Blossoms, keyboardist and ambient-music pioneer Harold Budd and guitarist Clive Wright unexpectedly peel back the years.
Album review: Taylor Swift
By Tom Gardner Associated Press
When an unknown teenage artist and an upstart label both come from nowhere to sell well over 3 million albums, the question is: What do you do next? With Taylor Swift’s sophomore album, Fearless, the answer is: You get even better.
Wiggle Anthony Field started out as a rocker
By Mary Meehan mmeehan1@herald-leader.com
It's fun to make a Wiggle giggle. Confronted with the information that, according to the group's publicist, he was the "hot" Wiggle, Anthony Field began to laugh. A low rolling giggle. "Well it's not like I wear a T-shirt or anything" proclaiming it.
Soweto Gospel Choir at home around the world
By Walter Tunis Contributing music writer
As he speaks from his hotel room in Vancouver, British Columbia, Kevin Williams is half a world away from home. As a three-year member of the Soweto Gospel Choir, he has become a versed global traveler.Teen sensation Taylor Swift is expanding boundaries
By Jon Camamanica New York Times News Service
CHATTANOOGA — By now, Taylor Swift knows how to work all the various digital cameras, all the various camera phones. When surrounded by a group of fans clamoring for pictures, as she was on a Saturday night in mid-October after a sold-out show at McKenzie Arena, she warmly appropriated the camera of each one, struck a cute pose, snapped the picture and then handed it back, usually followed by a hug. All in all it was a fair trade: intimacy for control.
Cabaret singer adds than her voice to every show
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Critic
The most permanent of many performance homes for Andrea Marcovicci is a midtown New York supper club at the Algonquin Hotel called the Oak Room. It's a comfortable and intimate setting where the veteran actress and cabaret singer performs for audiences that, given the club's modest size, seldom number more than 80.
Critic's pick: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
By now, Ryan Adams' place in the pantheon of new-generation rocker-songwriters is secure.
