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Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's only fair that the drummer who invented Afrobeat pays tribute to the drummer who invented hard bop. For the last few years that Tony Allen has been enjoying a second youth in Paris and elsewhere, we have tended to forget that his very particular style, of touching and pounding, comes as much from his African and Nigerian sources as from the rhythmic boppers that were Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, and, in particular, Art Blakey.
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sugar plums and snowflakes, dreams and spells - Peter Wright's The Nutcracker is one of the world's most enchanting productions, and The Australian Ballet shines in this charming classic. Sumptuously staged and set to Tchaikovsky's celebrated score, this ballet is a truly magical experience for the whole family.
Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
For the young producer Norman Granz, the signing of Charlie Parker to the Mercury label was a real coup. The saxophonist had been thinking for some years about the opportunity to record music outside his usual quintet. The "Charlie Parker with Strings" project was an old dream of his that he realized in 1949. With an oboe, a few violins, a viola, a cello, a harp, a piano, a double bass and drums, he gave a new sound to classics of the 1930s like "Just...
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Featuring over 40 minutes of vintage performances by the world's greatest gospel singer, this is Mahalia at her most powerful, singing the beloved songs of the holiday season. Originally intended as musical vignettes for CBS's 1960-61 television season, this beautiful footage has been digitally remastered for optimum sound and picture quality form the original 16mm Kinescopes.
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Just two months after the release of his seminal After the Gold Rush, Neil Young sat down for a performance at The Shakespeare Theater on January 22, 1971. The Stratford, CT show captures the artist stripped down to the bare essentials-acoustic guitar, piano, and harmonica.
Author
Publisher
Dpunkt.verlag
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Deutsch
Description
Das Logo muss gr�sser! ist unter Grafikdesigern weltweit ein running gag, der ihre Zusammenarbeit mit Auftraggebern res�umiert, die unter Marketing vor allem Reklame verstehen. Grafikdesign wird meist von Nicht-Designern (z.B. im Marketing) beauftragt und beurteilt. Und wenn dann Welten (und Egos) aufeinander treffen, sorgt das nicht nur f�ur Missverst�ndnisse und Frustration, sondern am Ende auch f�ur schlechte Ergebnisse. Dieses Buch der...
50) Gallant Indies
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Based on Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera-ballet that was directed by Clément Cogitore for the Opéra National de Paris. This is a premiere for 30 dancers of hip-hop, krump, break, voguing... A first for the Director Clément Cogitore and for the choreographer Bintou Dembélé. And a first for the Paris' Opera Bastille. By bringing together urban dance and opera singing, they reinvent Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes. From...
Publisher
Auditorium Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
As part of the Valletta International Baroque Festival, an event entirely in keeping with the identity and the baroque architecture of the city, the ensemble of musicians and singers has chosen to introduce us to motets, musical compositions of one or more voices written from a text, sacred or secular. He plays the Te Deum composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, played for the first time in 1699.
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Street magician, David Blaine, attempts to freeze himself within a block of ice for 72 hours. The hour includes pre-taped footage of Blaine's preparation for the trick and his entry into the icy hangout, as well as segments of Blaine stumping pedestrians with his hip brand of sleight of hand and trickery.
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
David Blaine does it again. With 'Vertigo', we see some more incredible magic and unusual illusions. Intercut with the Magic is David - standing on a pole in NY for two days. A pole that seemed to be extended 10 stories tall with nothing for him to hang on to - and there was nothing to catch him. This portion of the program was live and at the end of the show - he jumped into a stack of cardboard boxes.
59) The Red Shoes
Publisher
Illuminations
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Filmed at Sadler's Wells in 2019, Matthew Bourne's THE RED SHOES is a triumphant adaptation of the legendary 1948 feature film by Micheal Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The double Olivier Award-winning show is Hans Christian Andersen's tale of obsession, possession, and one girl's dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page, played by Ashley Shaw who won a National Dance Award for her performance, lives to dance, but her ambitions...
Publisher
Foundation Distribution
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
For seven days and seven nights, Blaine is submerged in 10,000 gallons of water in front of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Liver damage, kidney failure, loss of feeling in fingers and toes threaten his attempt to break the world record of 8 minutes 58 seconds for underwater breath-holding in Drowned Alive.
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