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Guitarist Bill Frisell is widely known for his genre-straddling collaborations with some of the biggest names in the popular, jazz, and classical worlds: Bono, Elvis Costello, John Zorn, Rickie Lee Jones, John Zorn, the Los Angeles Philharmonic – just to name a fragmentary few. But for his latest album, the Grammy-winning Seattle-based musician chose to embark on a time- and idiom-straddling collaboration with an almost forgotten, long-deceased photographer from Arkansas. [Read More...] To much of the rest of the world, Butte, Montana, is known as home to an enormous, toxic hole in the ground, an emptiness where once stood the richest hill on earth. But for most of her life, filmmaker Pam Roberts has understood that the beauty and richness of Butte is a living, breathing thing. It’s an indefinable yet undeniable fact of the place, a sense of community and character that one finds in few other locales. “I had gone to Butte around age 12 and I still remember that impression so vividly; I fell in love with the people right off the bat and the place was so urban in relation to everything else to Montana, with many different cultures,” said Roberts, whose company, Rattlesnake Productions, was founded in Missoula 27 years ago. “Growing up in Montana, we always knew if someone was from Butte right away – from their mannerisms, the way they talked; it was a place set apart. I wanted to know more of that, and what it is that made that place different.” So, just over a decade ago, Roberts decided to focus her lens on Montana’s most famous mining town. [Read More...] Advertisement One made his career playing by all the rules. One made his career by breaking all the rules. One wears a bracelet in honor of a little girl with leukemia. One wears freaky colored contacts in order to scare little girls. One has an endorsement deal with Sketchers shoes. One couldn’t get an endorsement deal if he begged for it. [Read More...] The Missoulian is looking for four opera “newbies” — people who have never seen an opera before — to interview about their experience at Thursday’s performance of “Rigoletto” at the University Theatre. Be one of the first four people to call me at 239 5649 and you can have a free ticket. The [...] I’m sitting in the Music Recital Hall at UM, listening as the Summer Opera Festival orchestra practices a section of tightly knit contrasts: fast outbursts set against subtly shimmering textures – a hallmark of the music of Giuseppe Verdi. The music starts and stops, as Darko Butorac barks out corrections. “Oh mama mia, mama mia,” he sighs as the string players smudge a tricky bar. “I can’t subdivide this for you. You have to do it for yourselves.” He counts out the tempo again, and this time it sounds just right. Trouble is, back here in the percussion section, I have no idea where we are. On my sparsely notated sheet music, I see “Tacet 5-6-7,” an indication that I simply sit out three long sections of the music. When does the next section begin? It’s not really clearly noted. When it does eventually begin, my music tells me to count out seven bars of rest. Then fifty-two bars of rest. Then fifty-three. Then forty-one. Then, I’m supposed to whack the bass drum very, very hard. [Read More...] The Carmike 10 opened up for a live screening of the Michael Jackson funeral today. Precisely zero people showed up, from what I hear. (I wouldn’t know first-hand; I didn’t show up, either.) Apparently — go figure! — live television is best left to live television. Share on Facebook This just ran on the AP wire; I’ve sent Jeff a message asking if it affects his planned Palace show this weekend… Pearl Jam bassist mugged outside Atlanta studio ATLANTA (AP) — Police say Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament was mugged outside an Atlanta recording studio. A Dekalb County police report says three [...] I don’t much talk about happenings in New York City on this blog, but this just flabbergasts me. Astoundingly ill-advised. Share on Facebook This year’s On Deck Skate Art Auction is now online — and wow is it a great showing this year. Fifty artists customized skate decks for this year’s auction, and I find myself wanting to own pretty much all of ‘em. Bidding is open online now; the ending live auction is May 1 [...] Just got this notice via email; dunno if anybody from around here is planning to make the long drive for tonight’s show, but if so, you may want to know… URGENT – Trapt Concert Change Due to a vocal cord injury, Trapt is no longer playing the concert scheduled for Monday, April 20 [...] |
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