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Not long ago, in my capacity as a literary editor, I was exchanging emails with the eminent Dylanologist Clinton Heylin. Heylin wanted to review a new biography of Bob Dylan and I was sceptical. Could there be anything more to say about Dylan? Haven’t those ashes, by now, been thoroughly raked? “There have been so many,” I complained. “You obviously know something I don’t,” Heylin replied with a steely good grace – because, needless to say, I knew, and he knew I knew, and I knew h...

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98, Schumann’s Liederkries, Op. 39, and Beethoven’s Aus Goethes Faust, Op. 75, No. 3. Register and view here until April 18. 8 pm ET: Tippet Rise Art Center presents Spring Festival. For the first day of Tippet Rise’s Spring Festival, two films have been captured at the DiMenna Center. The first features violinist Katie Hyun—founding member of the Amphion String Quartet—performing Vytautas Barkauskas’s Partita for violin solo. For the second film, Tippe...

Share This: What if you were part of a promising young rock band that had the real potential to make it to the big stage? If I’m a teenager, that’s a dream come true. But what would it take to give all that up? I can’t think of anything. Founding member of the popular all-veteran rock band Silence and Light, Brad Thomas, did exactly that. He decided to give up his dream of becoming a rock star to not only enlist in the U.S. Army but to join one of the world’s most elite fighting units ...

The Redbud City: It happened in April Clyde Wooldridge CITY ELECTION 125 YEARS AGO - The city-wide election on April 8, 1896, was a highly emotional contest between two competing political views. The local news media called it “a grand and glorious victory for the good people of Shawnee. It cannot be called a Republican victory for the fact that many good Democratic citizens voted for Mr. Search.” Charles Knox, the Democrat, was elected as city clerk by 102 votes over George Boggs, the Repu...

Elaine Chung If you take nothing else from what youre about to read, know this: Ta-Nehisi Coates (National Book Award winner, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, etc) has been writing a very-much-worth-checking-out Captain America comic book series for two and a half years now. Coates will wrap up his post- Black Panther run this summer. If you want to read something, you know, with some insight before the dumbassery ahead, check out Volume One of Cap x Coates here. It follows the recovery of a...

Rescue, as well as traditional and popular songs. View here for three days. 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Luisa Miller. Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 14, 2018. View here and for 24 hours. 8 pm ET: Seattle Opera presents The Big Opera Show. A journey through Seattle Operas upcoming season featuring special gues...

Why Bill Clinton said Bob Dylan probably had a greater impact on people of my generation than any other creative artist After trying to start his music career in Fargo, Bob Dylan sold millions of albums, earned awards, toured extensively and received praise from multiple presidents for his impact on music and popular culture. Written By: Curt Eriksmoen | × Bob Dylan receives a Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on May 29, 2012. Photo by Bill Ingalls / NA...

Taken from his forthcoming album, Transformação E Cura, Alfredo Bello – known to you and me as DJ Tudo – furthers here his investigative forays into Brazilian folk culture with his ever-changing band, Sua Gente de Todo Lugar. The “people from everywhere” cook up a tumultuous mix of sounds, colours and genres that leaves you by the end feeling well and truly spent – in a joyful way. Like many other traditional songs in Afro-Brazilian culture, this deals with slavery and ever-present...

Share The Museum of Other Realities has been used for several events of the past year including Cannes XR Virtual and fashion exhibition  The Fabric of Reality. The latest is a showcase of British virtual reality (VR) experiences ‘Immersive Arcade: The Showcase’, put together by Digital Catapult and UKRI in partnership with Kaleidoscope its completely free to enjoy. Common Ground by Darren Emerson, East City Films Normally, the Museum of Other Realities is a paid app but for the couple of...

Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Barrie Kosky’s new staging with Marlis Petersen (Die Marschallin), Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Katharina Konradi (Sophie), Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), and Johannes Martin Kränzle (Herr von Faninal). The new production will be performed in the arrangement by Eberhard Kloke which transcribes the score to match the orchestration of Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos. View here. 12 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Conce...