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Concert Review
Tchaikovsky Competition cello winner amazes audience
Narek Hakhnazaryan, the Armenian cellist who emerged victorious in the cello division of the last Tchaikovsky Competition, performed Tuesday in the Ramsi P. Tick Memorial Concert Series, bringing this year’s season to a beautiful close. Accompanying him was pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera.
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Artpark unveils Tuesday concert lineup
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Listening Post /Brief reviews of select releases
Classical Berg, Beethoven, Violin Concertos, Isabelle Faust, violin, the Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado, conductor (Harmonia Mundi).
BPO showcases 2 of Ellington’s orchestral scores
The Buffalo Philharmonic’s two-week Duke Ellington Festival concludes this weekend with the performance of two of Ellington’s major orchestral scores, a suite from a 1970 ballet score “The River,” and the 1943 “Black, Brown and Beige.”
Consider the Source serves up a stew of transcendent Middle Eastern funk
One half-expected Gabriel Marin to levitate halfway through Friday evening’s Consider the Source show in the Tralf Music Hall. Dressed head-to-toe in loose-fitting white cotton, his long hair tucked beneath a fez, the guitarist appeared like some otherworldly ascetic, a deity inhabiting a human form, perhaps, or at least a swami of some sort. His playing only added to the aura of otherness his appearance cultivated. Favoring Eastern and Middle Eastern modalities, Marin was a whirling dervish of virtuosity, his fretless double-neck guitar evoking sounds more akin to an Indian sarod or a tenor saxophone than to the standard output of electric guitar. The combined effect made the listener feel compelled toward a semi-mystical state.
Jeff Miers: Sound Check
Mikel Doktor crafts guitars from cigar boxes
Local musician Mikel Doktor has launched Medicine Man Cigar Box Guitars, a homegrown independent company specializing in instruments constructed “primarily from recycled cigar boxes, but also from things like old olive oil or motor oil cans, washtubs, hubcaps . . . really, anything that will resonate.”
Jeff Miers Sound Check
Jeff Miers: Sound Check
Mikel Doktor crafts guitars from cigar boxes
Local musician Mikel Doktor has launched Medicine Man Cigar Box Guitars, a homegrown independent company specializing in instruments constructed “primarily from recycled cigar boxes, but also from things like old olive oil or motor oil cans, washtubs, hubcaps . . . really, anything that will resonate.”
Tuned In
Tuned In
If you have not yet had the opportunity to see Consider the Source during one of its many Buffalo tour stops over the past few years, please do consider attending the show at 8 tonight in the Tralf Music Hall (622 Main St.).
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Concert Reviews
Concert Review
Tchaikovsky Competition cello winner amazes audience
Narek Hakhnazaryan, the Armenian cellist who emerged victorious in the cello division of the last Tchaikovsky Competition, performed Tuesday in the Ramsi P. Tick Memorial Concert Series, bringing this year’s season to a beautiful close. Accompanying him was pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera.
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alk about spending time in the belly of the beast. SANTIGOLD, the renowned singer/rapper and songwriter, spent a few terms as an A&R person for Epic Records, before emerging as a composer for the likes of Lily Allen, Christina Aguilera and Ashlee
Entertainment Calendar
Best bets:
- Thu 5/17: Tyler Perry's Madea Gets a Job
- Fri 5/18: An Evening with Yanni
- Fri 5/18: Michael Feinstein presenting the Sinatra Project
- Fri 5/18: Lee "Scratch" Perry
- Sat 5/19: Collective Soul
- Sat 5/19: Louis Prima Jr.
- Sat 5/19: Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
- Wed 5/23: Jazz vocalist Jane Monheit
- Thu 5/24: North Sea Gas
- Fri 5/25: An Evening of Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake and Serenade
- Sat 5/26: Rich Little
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