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It was, as my companion put it, classical music's answer to a Barry White album: a programme celebrating carnal desire in all its shuddering, sighing, yearning, yelping, convulsive ecstasy. From the first bold connect of Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde, through the luxuriant ache of the Liebestod, and on to the celestial dances, starlit arias and interplanetary whoops of Messiaen's ...
When you drive the 2009 Mercedes-Benz CLS 63 AMG high performance coupe, you need an escort, a passport or any other reliable radar detector.
Waking up to a strange sensation, and reawakening a childhood fear.
I don't use this space for the purpose of reviewing artists or performances -- that isn't the reason I choose to blog.
INDIAN SUMMER BLUES "One Kind Favor" B.B. King (Geffen) B.B. King -- born on Sept. 16, 1925, in the mile-square hamlet of Itta Bena, Miss. -- keeps traveling the globe as a living link to the roots of the blues, still working when others would be fishing.
When Garnet Silk passed in 1994, reggae lost one of its most inspirational artists ever, a singer-songwriter of such conviction and "kingly character" that comparisons with Bob Marley -- if not Jesus Christ -- seemed inevitable and obvious.
"The Recession' -- Young Jeezy
I caught the West Side fever! Last Tuesday, September 2, I was privileged to watch the preview of West Side Story , and since then, I have been humming and singing "Somewhere" and "Something's Coming."
Celine Dion didn't have to call her latest album “Taking Chances.” Nor did she have to christen her first tour since setting up home base in Las Vegas -- where she bid the faithful come to her -- the “Taking Chances Tour.” But she did. This proves -- and Wednesday's performance inside HSBC Arena underscored as much -- that the French Canadian chanteuse has a great sense of humor.
At the 2008 Chicago Blues Festival, BB King remarked to the audience, "You know, some of you young people say I sold out. What does that even mean?" King's latest album, "One Kind Favor," provides an even better comeback to fans discouraged by the overproduced and slicked up albums that King has released in recent years.
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