#41 Seller of 2005! The Fiery Furnaces' fourth US release, Rehearsing My Choir is based, with liberal heaps of poetic license, around the recollections of Matt and Eleanor Friedberger's grandmother, 83-year-old Olga Sarantos. As Eleanor and Mrs. Sarantos trade off on vocals, signaling quick shifts in time and perspective, the music barrels along at their heels, the Furnaces changing up instruments and arrangements to match the action. As much musical theater as concept album, the story arc of "Rehearsing M...   [ read more ]

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What fan would have dared dream that an impromptu, one-off reunion at London's Barbican Theater in 2006 would lead to the first new music from Os Mutantes in over 30 years? Yet here is Haih, conceived by Mutantes founder Sergio Dias with writing collaborations from Brazilian legends Tom Ze and Jorge Ben (who wrote the band's original hit 'Minha Menina'). Haih is not nostalgia, not a remake of a 60s recording, but a vision updated - from the opening sounds of Vladimir Putin addressing the Russian Army, to t...   [ read more ]

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Musical theater songwriter Jerry Herman ({#Hello, Dolly!}, {#Mame}, {#La Cage aux Folles}) is celebrated in this two-hour concert benefiting the Actors' Fund of America, held in Los Angeles. Despite his Broadway pedigree, Herman has a pronounced affinity for the movies expressed in his work on such shows as {#Mack & Mabel} (a musical biography of silent film director Mack Sennett and silent film actress Mabel Normand) and {#A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine}. That affinity is accentu...   [ read more ]

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