The Schenectady County Community College Binnekill Chamber Orchestra concert scheduled at 7:30 p.m. tonight, Tuesday, Oct. 30, has been moved to St. Luke’s, 1241 State St., Schenectady, NY 12304.
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Remember when? The Doors Backstage Saratoga Performing Arts Center Footage 1968
Hat tip to Don Drewecki, but here is the Doors backstage at SPAC in 1968.
Check it out. Were you at the show?
Mirk in the running for Ernie Ball Battle Of The Bands grand prize
The 2012 Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival tour hit SPAC this summer, and the Albany band Mirk won a spot as an opener at the concert. Now Mirk is in the running against 27 other local market finalists for the Grand Prize package which includes a coveted spot on the 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival, the opportunity to record an EP with legendary producer Jay Baumgardner at NRG Recording Studios in Hollywood, CA, $10,000 worth of music gear and other prizes. For details, visit www.RockstarUPROAR.com/battleofthebands.
Mirk and the other winners are being evaluated through Oct. 30 by a panel of music industry professionals and artists including: Jose Mangin from Sirius XM, Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Zacky Vengeance, legendary producer/mixer Jay Baumgardner, and music industry veteran Bill McGathy.
The winner will be chosen soon after, so stay tuned.
Good luck, Mirk!
Tedeschi Trucks Band to play Palace on Dec. 2
The Palace Theatre announced this morning that the Tedeschi Trucks Band will return to Albany for a Dec. 2 show.
Tickets — which range from $39 to $79 — go onsale at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5, though members of the Palace can purchase tickets beginning Thursday.
The Tedeschi Trucks Band made its Capital Region debut last year, in an October show at The Egg, in which the 11-member band is fronted by the blues powerhouse couple of guitarslinger Derek Trucks and vocalist Susan Tedeschi.
For more information, visit http://www.albanypalace.com or call 465-3334.
Read the review of TTB’s Oct. 19, 2011, show.
‘Rat Pack Show’ at Palace rescheduled to May 9, 2013
The Palace Theatre has announced another rescheduling of “Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show,” which had been scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15. (The Saturday date had been the rescheduled date for the event which was originally slated to be Friday, March 23.
Tickets for the show will be honored on the new date. For those unable to attend, refunds are available at the original point of purchase.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9, performance are on sale at the Palace box office, Ticketmaster.com and by phone at 800-745-3000.
Call the Palace Theatre box office at 465-4663 for more information.
UPDATE: Acts added to free Pearl Palooza on Sept. 22, 2012
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WEQX has announced the lineup for the third annual free music celebration on Albany’s Pearl Street, Peal Palooza, which is slated for noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, place on North Pearl Street in downtown Albany (between Pine St. and Sheridan Ave.).
The headliners will be Matt & Kim on the mainstage, and a second stage will feature Capital Region acts. Matt & Kim will be returning to the region, having previously performed at Upstate Concert Hall (Northern Lights), SPAC, and Lark Fest.
UPDATE: Phantogram and Conehead Buddha have been added to this show
Hailing from Saratoga Springs, electronic rock duo Phantogram been praised by the likes of Pitchfork, Alternative Press, Spin and NPR. Founders Josh Carter (vocals, guitar, samples) and Sarah Barthel (vocals, keys, samples) are local indie rock heroes, turned international darlings.
One of the original genre-blending bands to grace the jam scene, Conehead Buddha plays songs you can dance to. Originally formed in late 1993, the band hit the touring circuit hard – making friends and fans all over the SUNY college circuit, New England, and the Southeastern states. In 2002, the band took a break, but in 2012 are back in full force playing live shows and with a new album. Present Perfect was just released this July.
The Mainstage
Matt & Kim
Robert Delong
The Royal Concept
Oberhofer
The local stage
Eastbound Jesus
Wild Adriatic
Barons in the Attic
MIRK
Bands listed for Local Legends Live
Earlier this summer, the state Office of General Services announced the former soul coughing frontman Mike Doughty as the headliner of this year’s Local Legends Live show on Saturday, Sept. 8. Now, OGS has posted the list of actual 518 acts performing. The free event takes place at the Empire State Plaza.
Here they are:
| Schedule | |
| 2 p.m. | Happy Birthday Dr. Jim |
| 3 p.m. | Catching Cadence |
| 4 p.m. | The Chronicles |
| 5 p.m. | Karma’s Army |
| 6 p.m. | John Brodeur and Charmboy |
| 7 p.m. | Eastbound Jesus |
| 8 p.m. | Mike Doughty |
Of note, this is also the same day as Day 2 of Restoration Fest at St. Joseph’s in Albany, which isn’t free, and the city of Albany’s Jazz Festival at Corning Preserve, which is free.
Something for everyone or a scheduling nightmare?
The full Lark Fest lineup announced
On Saturday, Sept. 15, the free Lark Street festival, Lark Fest, features music on two stages. The festival is presented by The Lark Street Business Improvement District and WEXT 97.7 FM.
Madison Stage (Lark and Madison)
Headband Jack
The City Never Sleeps
Sevendys
MaryLeigh & the Fauves
Jukebox the Ghost
World Party
Washington Stage(Lark and Washington)
Dirty Paris
Northern Faces
Erin Harkes
Lucky Jukebox Brigade
Graham Alexander
Ryan Shaw
Remembering Marvin Hamlisch
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David Wiegand of the Times Union’s sister newspaper, San Francisco Chronicle, has a wonderful appreciation of Marvin Hamlisch. He is part of it:
Mr. Hamlisch often wrote with great heart and emotion, but the music for “Chorus Line” memorably shows how much more there was to Mr. Hamlisch’s music than what we heard on the surface on a first listen: He didn’t write songs of hope, love and longing — he wrote human songs, songs about life, not just Broadway or Hollywood’s version of life.
Mr. Hamlisch wrote scores for more than 40 films, including “Sophie’s Choice,” “The Way We Were,” “The Informant” and “Ordinary People.” He was an equally gifted arranger, most memorably, perhaps, for his work on the Paul Newman classic, “The Sting,” in which he adapted the ragtime music of Scott Joplin. If you listen carefully to that score, as everyone did when the film came out in 1973, you may get yet another sense of Mr. Hamlisch’s genius. The score, and the main theme, “The Entertainer,” display an absolute respect and loyalty to Joplin’s original music, even while reworking it for a big Hollywood film.
In a more popular music vein, Mr. Hamlisch and then-girlfriend Carole Bayer Sager composed “Nobody Does It Better” for the 1977 James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me.” It was sung by Carly Simon on the soundtrack and became one of her most enduring hits.
And through it all, the awards kept coming: He was one of only 11 people to have won Tonys, Grammys, Oscars and Emmys, and one of only two people to have also won the Pulitzer (the other is Richard Rodgers).Unlike other composers, it isn’t always that easy to identify a Marvin Hamisch song or score. We might be able to identify a piece of music as, say, a “Henry Mancini song” or a Bernard Hermann score, but that’s less true of Mr. Hamlisch’s music. The same man who wrote “Sunshine, Lollipops and Roses,” sung by Lesley Gore, wrote the score for the musical “The Sweet Smell of Success,” the score for the film “Bananas,” the classical symphonic suite “Anatomy of Peace” and was principal pops conductor for the Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, San Diego, Pasadena and Dallas symphonies. He was due to be announced as principal pops conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the time of his death, had completed the score for the forthcoming Steven Soderbergh film about Liberace, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, and was working on a new Broadway show called “Gotta Dance.”
That isn’t to say that Mr. Hamlisch somehow lacked a style — far from it. If anything, he owned many styles, and each one was authentic and unique.
