Culture Of Francesco Prisco Most of the 30 songs chosen by Amadeus for the next Italian Song Festival scheduled from 6 to 10 February could have been written by artificial intelligence 6′ reading Don’t ask for busy texts, because you will find few: just a few flashes of neo-feminism and a couple of immigration-themed parentheses. … Read more
Photographs by Caitlin Hawke. By Caitlin Hawke Alighting Thursday on the Upper West Side for a single, sold-out Beacon show, Bob Dylan drew peers and progeny — from the Silent Generation to Gen Alpha — to concert number five of seven in the New York vicinity. This was the only show in Manhattan. While still … Read more
When he was at Prague’s O2 arena for the last time, he had the stage set up as a black and white chessboard and welcomed the audience with the song Having a Party taken from the Sam Cooke repertoire. Next year, the 78-year-old British singer Sir Rod Stewart will return to the same place. As … Read more
American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, whose remarkable life story was told in the 2012 Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, died on Tuesday at the age of 81. The artist, who went by only his surname, took a long hiatus from his career after releasing two albums in the early 1970s while with his engaging work, … Read more
The English singer-songwriter PJ Harvey will present her upcoming tenth studio album, entitled I Inside the Old Year Dying, at concerts that will take place on October 18 and 19 in the large hall of Lucerna in Prague. He will return to the Czech capital after seven years. Tickets will be on sale from next … Read more
Design Illustrated book on Milton Glaser He shaped the graphic image of New York like no other Status: 07:19 a.m | Reading time: 3 minutes “Pop”, published by Phaidon Quelle: Copyright to the Estate of Milton Glaser Copyright to the Estate of Milton Glaser/PHAIDON From the cover of the Yellow Pages of Manhattan to the … Read more
Under the light from the lamp, her black dress shimmers and her hair shines gold. His right hand rests on the piano stool, his left hand holds the microphone. Canadian jazz pianist Diana Krall is facing the audience and not playing right now. He concentrates fully on singing. He shapes the words to the point … Read more
Last week, NTB was able to write that Bob Dylan fans were upset that the “handwritten” version of Dylan’s latest book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song”, which cost a whopping NOK 6,000, it wasn’t handwritten. The book will be about songwriting and received good reviews in the press. He had used a pen When fans … Read more
US publisher Simon & Schuster has admitted that the alleged hand-signed copies of Bob Dylan’s book The philosophy of modern song contain replicas of his signature. Buyers of the books get their money back and can keep their copies. The book was released last week in a limited edition of 900 copies and costs $599. … Read more
AFP extension ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 12:00 42 Bob Dylan love letters sold at auction in Boston. A Portuguese bookstore in Porto paid the equivalent of €650,000 for letters Dylan wrote from the age of sixteen to eighteen to his childhood sweetheart Barbara Ann Hewitt. At that time, from 1957 to 1959, Dylan was still called Robert Zimmerman. … Read more