Northwest music faculty presenting recitals, joining guest performers

Northwest Missouri State University is hosting a series of recitals featuring performances by faculty in the department of fine and performing arts and guest musicians this spring. “Faculty recitals are opportunities for colleagues to collaborate toward a common goal, often exploring repertoire not commonly heard in undergraduate education,” Dr. Rachel Day, a Northwest assistant professor of music, said. “Faculty recitals also serve as demonstrations for students of what is possible—artistry, recital programming, collaboration.” All recitals begin at 7 pm in the Charles Johnson Theater at the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building. Wednesday, March 6 Day will sing mezzo-soprano with Northwest…
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8 Tracks: Music that ignites the senses | News

Pianist and composer Kelly Moran translates her love of figure skating into the luxuriant “Butterfly Phase.” YouTube 8 Tracks is your antidote to the algorithm. Each week, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich, with the help of his colleagues, makes connections between sounds across time. Synesthesia, according to an NPR article from 2013, is “a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sense produces experiences in a totally different sense.” Taste color, hear pictures, etc. It’s hard to know exactly how many people have synesthesia, but there are times when my own senses cross to create a unique experience with music.…
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Bleachers edge past The Boss as Jack Antonoff finds a new kind of peace

Self-titled albums are the traditional way for a musical act to introduce themselves. Here I am, they say — here’s where it starts. So what are we to make of Bleachers’ new album, their fourth and self-titled? It signals that “Bleachers” is a rebirth of sorts. Singer-songwriter Jack Antonoff — the accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Grammy-winning super-producer and New Jersey cool kid — offers a mature, kaleidoscopic 14 tracks, with turns into softer directions and styles. If Bleachers in the past was all angsty attitude, barreling down the Garden State Parkway with a middle finger through the sunroof, this time Bleachers is…
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Coachella and OpenSea launch NFTs with music festival utility and keepsakes

The popular music and arts festival Coachella announced a new collaboration with the nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea to launch digital keepsakes that will have real-world utility at the event. On March 5, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival revealed that its 2024 edition of the festival will have three unique NFT collections serving as all-access passes to some of the festival’s most exclusive on-site experiences and merchandise. Coachella is one of the largest music festivals in the world, with upwards of 645,000 people attending. It is known for its diverse music acts featuring newcomers and superstars alike, along…
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Performance will be music to our ears

Westminster, Hollywood … now it’s Maleny’s turn By Sonia Isaacs FROM performing in front of Hollywood royalty to actual royalty, one of the world’s leading violinists, Courtenay Cleary, is now looking forward to a very special one-off performance in Maleny.Courtenay has already scaled the heights of a stellar career, proving himself one of the leading violinists of his generation and is fast becoming a highly sought after soloist and chamber musician both on the national and international stage.She performed twice for Queen Elizabeth II including at Westminster Abbey, which was also broadcast live on BBC.The Queenslander has even played at…
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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Disney+ Trailer Reveals Maroon as Bonus Song

“Midnights” fans, rejoice: “Maroon” is one of the four bonus acoustic songs included in the Disney+ version of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.” At the end of a Disney+ trailer dropped on Monday, the first few notes of “Maroon” can be heard, revealing that the track is one of the surprise acoustic songs included in the concert film’s streaming edition. “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” is also debuting on Disney+ one day earlier than previously planned, on March 14 at 6 pm PT. It was first announced in February that Disney+ would exclusively stream the box-office hit, with Puck reporting…
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Almost New Radicals’ ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ Single

Gregg Alexander’s music career could have taken a much different path if he didn’t have a very bad night in Detroit 30 years ago. The reclusive singer/songwriter and leader of the New Radicals recently revealed that his band’s signature 1998 debut single, the up with (positive) people anthem “You Get What You Give,” almost didn’t make the grade thanks to an equally catchy song he ended up handing off. “I had a moment of annoyance that I couldn’t go to the house clubs in Detroit. So he reached for the acoustic guitar in the back, channeling his emotion into a…
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Luke Hemmings Talks ‘Shakes’ & New Album Era

Luke Hemmings is introducing his new album era with the introspective “Shakes,” and to celebrate, the 5 Seconds of Summer vocalist sat down with Billboards‘s Rania Aniftos to discuss the writing process. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I already had a lot of ideas for the album from being on the road, a lot of it was written in hotels and planes and all the sad boy places,” he recalled with a laugh. “That’s where a lot of it came from. The chorus was written in New York, and I was experimenting…
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