The integration deepens. Electric viola da gamba player Jenny Eriksson’s Elysian Fields project gave six players of diverse backgrounds a chance to excavate a unique collective sound, and the artistic success always partly depended on how successfully its disparate elements – classical, folk, jazz and early music – could fuse, rather than being parallel streams. The band here achieves that goal on a repertoire of Scandinavian folk music: pieces that readily accommodate the eccentric instrumentation, …
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SaigonDance marked its 10 years ceremony with a memorable night of the show ’10 years of Saigon and Dance that has received …
It’s been a long, tough road for jazz vocalist Emma Pask to get back to the stage, doing what she loves after so many months of uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’d love to be able to say, ‘Oh, I did so many things and I wrote so many songs and I sang every day’,” she says.
“I just didn’t. I was really devastated and I felt the weight of the world on my …
When imam Abu Hamzah saw a group of young men protesting against the lockdown near his Broadmeadows mosque, he called them in for pizza and a chat.
Key points: Experts say community leaders are key in curbing the coronavirus pandemic in the next few months Combatting misinformation online and helping get health messages across language and cultural barriers have been major challenges Engaging more culturally diverse communities could be a lesson learnt to avoid future…A SPANISH flamenco guitarist once taught Leonard Cohen a sequence of six chords.
Learning these chords – upon which many flamenco songs are based – formed the basis of his compositions, the veteran singer-songwriter and poet revealed during his acceptance speech for a top Spanish literature prize, the Prince of Asturias Award, in 2011.
Cohen spoke of finding his voice, and his song, in a moving personal speech, and with a humility that is characteristic …
NEWPORT adventurer Richard Parks’ latest challenge is delving into what it means to be Welsh and black.
After beating his own British record for reach the South Pole earlier this year, Mr Parks has now embarked on what he views as hie “most ambitious challenge yet”.
The special hour-long film features sporting stars Ryan Giggs and Ashton Hewitt, Professor Charlotte Williams – an expert in Welsh identity – and some of Wales brightest creative artists …
Departing for Jakarta, 1963.
While at Yale, he wrote the monograph, Religion, Politics and Economic Behaviour in Java: The Kudus Cigarette Industry, which received a glowing accolade from Clifford Geertz, then the most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States:
“Seeing heaven, or some less attractive cosmos, in a grain of sand is not a trick everyone can accomplish. But in less than a hundred pages Lance Castles has managed to bring an extraordinary number …
Departing for Jakarta, 1963.
While at Yale, he wrote the monograph, Religion, Politics and Economic Behaviour in Java: The Kudus Cigarette Industry, which received a glowing accolade from Clifford Geertz, then the most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States:
“Seeing heaven, or some less attractive cosmos, in a grain of sand is not a trick everyone can accomplish. But in less than a hundred pages Lance Castles has managed to bring an extraordinary number …
