| Image Line Software Announces the Release of FL Studio 7 (Formerly: Fruityloops) | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:07:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sint-Martens-Latem, OVL, Belgium (PRWeb) January 11, 2007 -- Image Line Software has announced the much anticipated release of its complete music production environment, FL Studio 7. Representing the culmination of more than 9 years of sustained development, FL Studio 7 is set to become the most flexible virtual music studio tool in the industry. .... | |
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| | | A Chorus Line Dancers We Signed Our Lives Away | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:06:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | The dancers who inspired A CHORUS LINE are fuming because they won't receive royalties from the forthcoming Broadway revival of the musical. A Chorus Line has grossed $280 million (GBP149 million) worldwide, and the original production was the longest-running show in Broadway history. Its origins lie in a late-night gathering at a rehearsal studio in Manhattan in January 1974, where choreographer MICHAEL BENNETT invited 19 of Broadway's best dancers to talk about their lives. The dancers spent more than 12 hours sharing their experiences, and these memories form the basis of the show. Bennett later arranged to split a portion of the box office takings and royalties with them, but these royalty agreements apply only to the original production - and not a revival. WAYNE CILENTO, one of the dancers, claims, "When we were young and stupid, we kind of signed our lives away, and they exploited that.... | |
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| | | `Chorus Line' needs a revival of the heart | | Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 5:22:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | If the new Broadway-bound revival of ``A Chorus Line'' got a score card, the dancing would rate a near-perfect 10, the acting a meager 3 and the directing, well, that approaches zero. Bob Avian's formulaic production, now trying out at San Francisco's Curran Theatre before marching on Broadway, has all the moves but none of the heart. Avian worked with Michael Bennett on perfecting that now-famous footwork back in 1975, when ``A Chorus Line'' first opened on Broadway. It went on to run for 15 years (6,137 performances!), winning nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. It's now the gold standard of backstage musicals, the show that lives in the heart of anybody who ever wanted to make it in the theater. And watching top-of-the-line dancers snap and pop through Bennett's landmark choreography still makes for a thrilling combination.... | |
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| | | Locals protest Afghanistan war | | Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:09:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | About two dozen chant slogans in opposition to Canada's involvement jmiller@whistlerquestion.com As Canadian soldiers continue to fall in the line of duty in Afghanistan, Whistlerites and others gathered over the weekend for a walk to protest the Canada's involvement in the land-locked Asian country. About 12 people, some with children and dogs and others on bikes, set out from Whistler's day skier lots around midday on Sunday (Aug. 13) carrying signs with slogans such as "May Peace be With You," and "Peace – Not Oil." As they walked through the Village and the upper Village, they chanted "peace not war" and sang the chorus of John Lennon's anti-war anthem "Give Peace a Chance." By the time they finished the peace walk, their numbers had grown to about 25 people, said organizer Evelyne Paredes.... | |
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| | | Frankie Valli opens Lenape PAC's 5th Summer Season | | Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 1:16:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nestled in the fields of a South Jersey community, one of the original Jersey Boys fills the town of Marltons most exciting venue. When Frankie Valli and the new Four Seasons stepped on the stage we were magically transformed back to 1963. Fresh on the heels of Broadways Tony winner The Jersey Boys, The Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center is celebrating its fifth year of presenting professional events for the South Jersey and Greater Philadelphia area by bringing back a local legend. Valli now 72, has summoned up some of the best talent including a 10 piece band and 4 young singers/dancers who collectively never miss a note, a beat or a step. This high energy concert takes you on a journey from one hit to another in a non stop fashion. The audience seems elated to joing in the singing of such memorable hits as "Grease".... | |
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| | | Levine, in superb form, returnsto lead BSO at Tanglewood | | Posted Sunday, July 09, 2006 7:03:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | LENOX -- A standing ovation from a gala-opening audience at Tanglewood Friday night greeted the new trim-line James Levine's first public walk to the podium in four months. The Boston Symphony's music director was back in action after his onstage fall last march in Symphony Hall after this very program -- Schoenberg and Beethoven -- and subsequent rotator cuff surgery. Levine may not yet be ready to dance Prince Siegfried in ``Swan Lake," but he's lighter and more secure on his feet and visibly overjoyed to be back in his favorite element, music -- sometimes he looked like a baby, splashing in the water. He's still more comfortable conducting from a chair, but he got so excited he leaped out of it at the end of the ``Ode to Joy" that crowns Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.... | |
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