28.09.11

Unbiased in case anyone hadn’t realized that Foster the People is a keyboard-oriented rig, five synthesizers and electronic pianos dominated the band’s setup Monday sundown at the 9:30 Club. That was more than the quintet’s members could trifle with at one time, since drummer Mark Pontius never left his kit, which was placed off to one side. But the abounding in keyboards (and a spare drum) allowed multi-instrumentalist Look at Foster to ricochet about the stage, pounding a beat here or tinkling a riff there. Three of the other players also regularly switched instruments and locations, adding pep to a show that was effectively all about a single song.

That song is “Pumped Up Kicks,” a bouncy hit that assumes the perspective of a guy who’s apparently about to perpetrate a mass murder. “You happier run, better run, outrun my gun,” the audience sang cheerily when the euphony finally arrived at the end of the band’s earlier set (the first of two sold-out Monday shows). Turning the amuck singalong into even more of a party, Foster and the people (the group’s unique name) interjected a dance-remix passage, sampling and looping the chorus into a clipped, lodgings-style groove. And the members of Reptar, the somewhat trippy outset act, rushed onto the stage, banging hand-held percussion instruments. This spun the well-planned set back to its hole number, “Houdini,” which began with most of the musicians banging or clanging on something.

Source: Washington Post

29.09.11

Tickets are already on yard sale for the fourth annual Sarasota-Manatee Bach Red-letter day, designed to highlight Baroque music and Bach in particular. 

The program opens November 4 at 7:30 p.m., at Christ Church, 4030 Manatee Ave. W. The November concerts, under the directing of Ann Stephenson-Moe and Richard Benedum, will include orchestral, keyboard, and choral music by J. S. Bach and his son, Johann Christian Bach.

Entertainment co-director Richard Benedum will offer a pre-concert lecture about a new manuscript reproduce of the Bach's "Chromatic Fantasy" that was authenticated within the past year.

Stephenson-Moe on harpsichord will depict the "Concerto in E-Flat" by Johann Christian Bach. She said the commemoration’s mission is “to keep the music of the Baroque period alive, including the music of Bach. We also aim to require access to Baroque music for young musicians and hope to see many inexperienced faces at these concerts.”

Her co-director said that the music for the concert will "show the consequential variety in Bach's repertoire."

Source: Patch.com

by leehiggins@annarbor.com

Twenty-five years ago, a teenaged Canadian pianist named Angela Hewitt won the Toronto Supranational Bach Piano Struggle. She went on to take in a magnificent profession, not straight in Bach — whose unreduced bigger keyboard works she recorded over 11 years for Hyperion, completing the undertaking in 2005 — but in works by composers from Baroque to Novel, and in concert halls around the earth. She was Gramophone A: Now I’ve got 4 wheels, so I can impel and not shamble my grip. I still have to put as much shove in them, though. I try to take my scores with me, but with the baggage restrictions, first of all on some of the budget airlines, it’s getting harder. I had about 10 kilos advantage of scores for Italy. You wholly can’t keep it all with you as give transport-on. With my “Goldberg Variations” and my “Well-Tempered Clavier,” I’d almost rather chafing them than put them on the plain. When I did my 14-month Bach travel, I had a flatmate read over my finish WTC on PDF files. There was no way I was contemporary to peril losing all my exertion on those, all the fingerings, etc.