The News Review:
- Saturday Festival blog: Air-conditioned museums get crowded in heat…
- Burchmore dazzles in Swarovski on opening night of Adelaide Cabaret…
- Zimbabwe: Winter Jazz Festival Postponed
- Deutsche Welle Festival Concert
- Nickels reportedly plans concealed-weapons ban at festivals
- Jewish music festival highlights 30 composers
Saturday Festival blog: Air-conditioned museums get crowded in heat…
MLive.com – Jun 7, 2008
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Burchmore dazzles in Swarovski on opening night of Adelaide Cabaret…
NEWS.com.au – Jun 7, 2008
This year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival is the first to reach its box-office target before opening night. Festival Centre chief executive Douglas Gautier said yesterday that more than 24000 tickets had already been sold. "Sixty-six per cent of available tickets have been sold – the best ever start" Mr Gautier said. "We have already exceeded our box-office target which is an outstanding result and the first time that has happened before the festival opens. "There was more good news for Cabaret Festival organisers with the state Budget announcement the event will receive an extra $200000 – on top of its existing $500000 annual funding – for the next four years.
Zimbabwe: Winter Jazz Festival Postponed
AllAfrica.com – Jun 7, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );The event which brings some of the best jazz artistes in the country and beyond is sponsored by Nestle Zimbabwe through their Nescafe Ricoffy brand and hosted by Jazz 105 in Harare. A senior manager at Harare joint Jazz 105 told city. com that the festival had been postponed after the slated dates coincided with the forthcoming Presidential run off elections slated for June 27. A new schedule is now being worked out. "We don’t have dates at the moment as to when the festival would be held because the previously slated dates coincided with the presidential run off elections.
Deutsche Welle Festival Concert
Deutsche Welle – Jun 7, 2008
Those colors are painted by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg under the vigorous baton of guest conductor Anu Tali. The Estonian conductor stood in for this event on short notice but the resulting performance sounded more like an ideal marriage of musical forces than a stopgap solution. Felix Mendelssohn?s vivid musical depiction of a deadly becalmed sea followed by a fortuitous wind is based on the poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that also inspired pieces by Beethoven and Schubert. Mendelssohn was only nineteen when he wrote the piece but he hung on to it and performed it throughout his life on occasions that were important to him.
Nickels reportedly plans concealed-weapons ban at festivals
Seattle Times – Jun 7, 2008
Sarah Thorsnes who was shot in the leg said Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske told her Friday the mayor would issue a ban shortly. The mayor’s office and Police Department declined to comment Friday. They have scheduled a news conference Monday to discuss an executive order on concealed weapons but did not provide any details such as how a ban would be enforced and whether festival officials would be held responsible for violations. Thorsnes said a ban would affect events funded or sponsored by the city.
Jewish music festival highlights 30 composers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Jun 7, 2008
7 2008Jewish music festival highlights 30 composers Music by 30 amateur and professional composers from four countries will be highlighted when the Third International Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music is held in the Milwaukee area Friday to June 16. On Friday and June 14 artists and composers will celebrate Shabbat services at synagogues across southeastern Wisconsin. A concert at 7:30 p. June 15 at Cardinal Stritch University in Fox Point will feature composers soloists a choir and instrumentalists.