The News Review:
- What’s old _ and new _ at Newport folk festival
- Canada’s Shaw Festival celebrates Coward one-acts
- International Festival is cultural world tour via food sports music
- Energetic conducting marks debut of summer’s Mostly Mozart festival
- Buddhist festival in Palo Alto kicks off Saturday
What’s old _ and new _ at Newport folk festival
The Associated Press
— Joan Baez was just 18 when she performed at the first Newport Folk Festival a self-described neurotic and high maintenance teenager who remembers trembling in her sandals as she waited her turn on stage. She sang in her signature soprano that night and her career quickly took off; she released an album on a major record label landed on Time magazine’s cover and made repeat appearances at the festival alongside on-off romantic partner Bob Dylan. “I didn’t faint; I sang and that was the beginning of a very long career” Baez says about her 1959 festival appearance. “It’s all very extraordinary that my career has been going on all that long time and so has Newport. “Baez returns to Newport this weekend as the heralded festival marks its 50th anniversary.
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Canada’s Shaw Festival celebrates Coward one-acts
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>(07-30) 04:19 PDT NIAGARA-N-THE-LAKE ntario (AP) –George Bernard Shaw patron saint of the Canadian theater festival that bears his name is sharing center stage there days with another major playwright Noel Coward. In fact Coward is popping up all over this postcard-pretty town in what could be the most tantalizing bit of theater programming in North America right now: all 10 of the master’s one-act “Tonight at 8:30″ plays running in repertory well into ctober at the Shaw Festival 2009. The 10 one-acts were written in the mid-1930s by Coward for himself and actress Gertrude Lawrence who scored earlier in the decade with “Private Lives” and wanted to work together again. At the Shaw Festival the plays are performed in three groups of three plays each. The 10th — the rarely performed “Star Chamber” — is offered as a stand-alone 50-minute lunchtime attraction.
International Festival is cultural world tour via food sports music
Baltimore Sun
In addition to martial arts demonstrations dance classes and live music this year’s festival includes the International BBQ Fest and the popular Mayor’s Cup soccer tournament. New to this year’s festival the International BBQ Fest pits nations head to head in a battle for global barbecue dominance. So far notable participants include Eve Saradpon of The Eskimo Shack in Arbutus who represents the Philippines in the competition and Bok Kee Joo of Jong Kak Restaurant in Baltimore who represents Korea. Participants compete in one of three meat categories — pork chicken or beef — and Baltimore City communications director Bella wens expects four to five entries in each category by the time submissions close to new participants Thursday at 5 p.
Energetic conducting marks debut of summer’s Mostly Mozart festival
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
At opening night of Lincoln Center’s 43rd Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall Tuesday night one felt tempted to break the sacred rule of classical concerts: No clapping between movements. The Mostly Mozart Festival rchestra and conductor Louis Langree music director of the festival imbued works by Beethoven Haydn and Mozart with urgency pulsating tension and forward-driving phrasing. In part however it was a feeling of movements as complete works rather than as part of broader slower-building compositions that seemed to call for premature applause. Most deserving of the barely suppressed appreciation was pianist Leif ve Andsnes who opened the concert with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.
Buddhist festival in Palo Alto kicks off Saturday
San Jose Mercury News
Saturday will mark the start of the city’s annual bon Festival a two-day celebration of Buddhist and Japanese-American culture. First held in Palo Alto in 1948 the traditional event brings families together to honor the spirits of their ancestors. It is held in almost every town and city in Japan in July or August.