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Otago Daily Times
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Circus and orchestra combine for concerts
Cirque du Coro will combine the aerial feats from Circus Space founder Abigail Rose and her students along with the Central Otago Regional Orchestra. Picture aerial and floor circus acts combining with musical classics, and you have captured the essence of Central Otago Regional Orchestra's (Coro) upcoming concerts series — "Cirque du Coro". Bringing circus and music together has been a long-held dream of conductor Ashley Hopkins after he experienced similar events in the North Island. Local inquiries led to him finding Circus Space run by Abigail Rose. Rose trained in multiple circus disciplines in New Zealand before training in Canada and the United States. Her international experience has continued throughout the southern hemisphere both in performance and teaching. More recently she has performed at the Glastonbury Performing Arts festival in the United Kingdom, along with other festivals in Barcelona, Ireland and France. Her specialist disciplines are aerial silks and double trapeze. She developed Circus Space, based in Alexandra, for children and adults to have the opportunity to experience performing circus. In this performance, Rose will be joined by four of her teenage students who have been performing aerials for about three years. Hopkins brings a wealth of musical experience to the conductor's podium. He has been Coro's successful musical director since 2016 and has just entered his fourth year of conducting the Roxburgh Pioneer Energy Brass Band. Previously he has directed the Auckland Secondary Schools Orchestra and conducted for the North Shore Concert Band. He has performed clarinet with the Auckland Philharmonia, the NZSO and currently performs with the DSO and OPUS orchestras. He is having a lot of fun compiling the music for this concert series. Well-loved classics such as Entrance of the Gladiators, (Fucik), The Greatest Showman (Pasek and Paul), Send in the Clowns (Sondheim arr. Ashley Hopkins), The Teddy Bears Picnic (Bratton), Dance of the Tumblers (Rimsky-Korsakoff, arr. Dackow) , and The Pink Panther (Mancini) will be complemented by some other works such as Capriol Suite (Peter Warlock) and El Relicario (Padilla). Cirque du Coro
New York Times
06-02-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Corrections: Feb. 6, 2025
An article on Wednesday about the Senate Finance Committee vote to send Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation of approval misstated the office held by Senator Maria Cantwell's father. He was a county commissioner, not a congressman. An article on Jan. 26 about John Hodgman's advice column misspelled the last name of the founder of the Maximum Fun podcast network. He is Jesse Thorn, not Thorne. An article on Tuesday about Senator John Curtis, Republican of Utah, misattributed a social media post criticizing Senator Curtis and other Republicans. It was from an account impersonating Charlie Kirk, the conservative commentator and activist, not by Mr. Kirk. An article on Wednesday about the lengths that research scientists in remote locations to follow their favorite teams gave the incorrect score of the Buffalo Bills game in a photo Meredith Nolan sent to her father. They were losing 21-10, not 27-10. Because of an editing error, an obituary on Wednesday about the actress Merle Louise Simon referred incorrectly to Madame Armfeldt, the character she played in a production of 'A Little Night Music.' It is Madame Armfeldt's daughter, not Madame Armfeldt herself, who sings 'Send in the Clowns.' An obituary on Jan. 31 about the singer Marianne Faithfull misidentified the relative of Ms. Faithfull who invented a device he called the 'Frigidity Machine.' It was Ms. Faithfull's paternal grandfather, not her father. Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘I'd dress as Judy Garland and scare my parents': Rufus Wainwright's honest playlist
The song I do at karaoke My daughter is a typical teenager. She's 13 and not interested in much that I do, but the other day I was singing Begin the Beguine by Cole Porter and she actually came down and asked: 'What the hell was that?' So that song has some magic to it. It always elevates the world around me. The song I can no longer listen to Stephen Sondheim is brilliant, but I can't stand Send in the Clowns. It just gets on my tits. Yes, I know that's a very British expression. I'm pandering to you guys. The first single I bought Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics, on 45, from this great record store in Montreal called Phantasmagoria, when I was 10. I'd seen Annie Lennox on television and felt as if I was witnessing a celestial being. The best song to play at a party The Way You Make Me Feel by Michael Jackson. I find pre-Thriller Michael Jackson is less overt. The song that changed my life I was about four or five when I first saw The Wizard of Oz on television. When I heard Judy Garland sing Over the Rainbow, it instantly became my anthem, and I subsequently started dressing up like Judy and scaring my parents. The song I inexplicably know every lyric to Hotel California by the Eagles has been hammered into me inexplicably. I'm always drawn to the story and melody through morbid curiosity. The song I secretly like, but tell everyone I hate I hate all of the pro-American, crazy flag-waving crap, but The Star-Spangled Banner, the American national anthem, is a hell of a lot of fun to sing. It's got a real payoff. The Whitney Houston version deserves to be the most famous version. Have I ever been asked to sing it? Not yet. I'm not sure if I would. The song that gets me up in the morning Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen is one of the great energising songs. It acknowledges the sadness, but gets you going. The song that makes me cry I covered Heading for Home by Peggy Seeger on my Folkocracy record. What I love is that it's about accepting age and embracing death. The song I want played at my funeral I would have a viola piece called Offertorium from my new classical album. I've always loved classical music, but now that I'm a classical artist, it doesn't come up if you put 'Rufus Wainwright'. It only comes up if you put 'Wainwright'. So now I'm officially mononymous, like Mozart and Madonna. Rufus Wainwright's new classical album, Dream Requiem, is out now.
The Guardian
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘I'd dress as Judy Garland and scare my parents': Rufus Wainwright's honest playlist
The song I do at karaoke My daughter is a typical teenager. She's 13 and not interested in much that I do, but the other day I was singing Begin the Beguine by Cole Porter and she actually came down and asked: 'What the hell was that?' So that song has some magic to it. It always elevates the world around me. The song I can no longer listen to Stephen Sondheim is brilliant, but I can't stand Send in the Clowns. It just gets on my tits. Yes, I know that's a very British expression. I'm pandering to you guys. The first single I bought Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics, on 45, from this great record store in Montreal called Phantasmagoria, when I was 10. I'd seen Annie Lennox on television and felt as if I was witnessing a celestial being. The best song to play at a party The Way You Make Me Feel by Michael Jackson. I find pre-Thriller Michael Jackson is less overt. The song that changed my life I was about four or five when I first saw The Wizard of Oz on television. When I heard Judy Garland sing Over the Rainbow, it instantly became my anthem, and I subsequently started dressing up like Judy and scaring my parents. The song I inexplicably know every lyric to Hotel California by the Eagles has been hammered into me inexplicably. I'm always drawn to the story and melody through morbid curiosity. The song I secretly like, but tell everyone I hate I hate all of the pro-American, crazy flag-waving crap, but The Star-Spangled Banner, the American national anthem, is a hell of a lot of fun to sing. It's got a real payoff. The Whitney Houston version deserves to be the most famous version. Have I ever been asked to sing it? Not yet. I'm not sure if I would. The song that gets me up in the morning Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen is one of the great energising songs. It acknowledges the sadness, but gets you going. Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion The song that makes me cry I covered Heading for Home by Peggy Seeger on my Folkocracy record. What I love is that it's about accepting age and embracing death. The song I want played at my funeral I would have a viola piece called Offertorium from my new classical album. I've always loved classical music, but now that I'm a classical artist, it doesn't come up if you put 'Rufus Wainwright'. It only comes up if you put 'Wainwright'. So now I'm officially mononymous, like Mozart and Madonna. Rufus Wainwright's new classical album, Dream Requiem, is out now.
