Tag: world music
Beegie Adair
by shuehli on Feb.08, 2010, under General, Interview
Beegie Adair, Jazz pianist and recording artist
When I sat down with Beegie in the recital hall of the Steinway Piano Gallery in Nashville, I found myself a kindred spirit. I’ve had the privilege of meeting a few such people in my travels.
Within minutes of exchanging pleasantries, including details of each other’s musical aspirations and the such, I noticed we shared similar thoughts on many issues related to music. Beegie became my buddy the instant I found out she had heard the theremin; “they used to make theremin records when I was a little girl!”
Beegie aka Bobbe Gorin (B.G.) Adair, has seen jazz grow from a niche category in a music store to something more egalitarian, thanks to those who have had through generations, massaged their artistic persuasions into the music, much like one would rub spices culled from around the world into their cooking. (continue reading…)
RED is the Colour of Permission!
by shuehli on Aug.11, 2009, under General, Interview, Musings
REDCAT/CalArts Theater CA
I visit the Roy and Edna Disney theater, an adjunct to CalArts in downtown LA at the corner of W. 2nd St. and S. Hope St.
As I wait to the cross at the traffic lights, I gaze upon the swirls of the architectural sails that remind me of the Sydney Opera House, but on a smaller scale.
REDCAT its acronym conjures synesthetic imagery. (#1)
Red is power, passion, prosperity, new life, the colour for stop …
Red is permission says Lauren Pratt, Associate Producer for Music (REDCAT/Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts) who meets me with Associate Director, George Lugg, for a Californian pow-wow.
Lauren: “Artists are given permission to work outside their realm of enquiry and try something they might not have tried before or thought was possible. They feel it is a truly experimental place for them.” To quote such an instance, Lou Reed in the Fall of 2008, worked with Ulrich Krieger to orchestrate a free Improv work in the noise realm entitled ‘Unclassified’. Reed and Krieger first met in 2002 for ‘Metal Machine Music’.
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