The News Review:
- BullRunning.com helps you take the bull by the horns in Spain
- Beyonce Ne-Yo Honor Michael Jackson At Essence Festival
- A Ben Jonson rarity sparks Stratford Festival
- Michael Jackson’s funeral: a festival of sorts.
- Stratford musicals become a mini-Sondheim festival
- pera Maverick Makes Small Festival a Top Draw
BullRunning.com helps you take the bull by the horns in Spain
Los Angeles Times
com helps you take the bull by the horns in Spain – Travel – LATimes. com gives you practical travel info for surviving the Fiesta de San Fermn whether you’re partying at the Spanis.
Beyonce Ne-Yo Honor Michael Jackson At Essence Festival
MTV.com
The festival kicked off on Friday evening with a video tribute of Jackson as a live band played a number of his hits against a 20-foot backdrop of the fallen star. The tribute was followed by sets from. For his performance Ne-Yo dedicated the majority of his set to Jackson. “I’m gonna do my best to keep his legacy alive” said the singer who was clad in a Jacksonesque hat and sparkling jacket.
Related from Journowiki: Michael Jackson funeral time is 10:00 am on Tuesday July 7 2009
A Ben Jonson rarity sparks Stratford Festival
The Associated Press
The play is called “Bartholomew Fair” and one hesitates to describe director Antoni Cimolino’s sprawling yet clearly focused production as a revival particularly since probably very few sitting in the Tom Patterson Theatre have ever seen the early 17th century comedy on stage. Supposedly this is the work’s professional North American premiere — nearly 400 years after it was written. Big nonprofit theaters are the only places a play such as “Bartholomew Fair” can be done these days. And Stratford despite an economic uncertainty that doesn’t seem to be ending any time now has managed to give the play the full production it deserves.
Michael Jackson’s funeral: a festival of sorts.
Examiner.com
com The world waits with bated breath as the minutes count down toward Michael Jackson’ s monumental memorial service. Los Angeles freeways are shut down to allow for the traffic streaming to the Staples Center for the funeral.
Stratford musicals become a mini-Sondheim festival
The Associated Press
They turned into a mini-celebration of Stephen Sondheim. The double Sondheim whammy is made up of “West Side Story” (1957) for which he supplied the lyrics to Leonard Bernstein’s magnificent music and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (1962) which marked his Broadway debut as both composer and lyricist. Seen together they trace the growth of Sondheim’s considerable talent from the more elemental wordplay of “West Side Story” to the breezy astonishingly nimble (and often underappreciated) melodies and lyrics in “Forum” five years later. Both shows have been major crowd pleasers most notably the terrific affecting “West Side Story.
pera Maverick Makes Small Festival a Top Draw
New York Times
Yet with applicants having to wait seven years for tickets Bayreuth hardly needs protection from competition. In fact the annual Munich pera Festival has always had a major Wagner component. But since 1998 another less orthodox enterprise has also toiled on behalf of the master of the music drama and in roughly the same neck of the Austro-Bavarian woods. Skip to next paragraph Blog.