The concert features music of all extraordinary career of Billie Holiday including what a little moonlight can do, Them There Eyes, That Ole Devil Called Love, Blue Moon, Strange Fruit, God Bless the Child and many more.
Friday 30 January 2015
Friday Night Is Music: 100 Years Of Billie Holiday
Friday Night is Music Night Radio 2 presents a special concert to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Billie Holiday. With a stellar line of singers like the legendary American singer Madeline Bell soul; Gloria Onitiri (The Bodyguard) and Rebecca Ferguson (Factor X) with the 60-piece orchestra of the BBC augmented to include a great band and directed by Mike Dixon Concert.
The concert features music of all extraordinary career of Billie Holiday including what a little moonlight can do, Them There Eyes, That Ole Devil Called Love, Blue Moon, Strange Fruit, God Bless the Child and many more.
The concert features music of all extraordinary career of Billie Holiday including what a little moonlight can do, Them There Eyes, That Ole Devil Called Love, Blue Moon, Strange Fruit, God Bless the Child and many more.
Sunday 4 January 2015
Andrea Bocelli To Perform Holiday-Tinged Concert Sunday
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli has a special connection to Detroit. It was here, in 1999, where he made his opera debut in North America on stage at the Detroit Opera House in Massenet's "Werther".
Still, it's been a dozen years since the clarion voice artist busy intersection has been heard in these parts.
Bocelli is now catching up on Sunday at a concert at the Joe Louis Arena time. He will be accompanied by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Kohn. Soprano Maria Aleida, violinist Caroline Campbell and Broadway singer and actress Heather Headley will join him.
Bocelli took a break during their tour to chat with us.
Can you give a preview of his concert in Detroit? I imagine being so close to Christmas there will be some selections from his CD "My Christmas".
Yes, definitely there will be selections from "My Christmas" as well as songs from the albums "Passione", "Sogno", "Concerto" and "Incanto". We have tried to create a cheerful program, including some masterpieces of opera and classical pop music, not forgetting that we will be close to the Christmas season.
Will you be back home in Italy for Christmas? What are some of your Christmas traditions?
I'll spend Christmas with my family in my home in Miami. I have always lived this time as a time of joy and devotion. It's a party that does not want to forget the true meaning of, and that is spiritual. In fact, for me the heart of Christmas is the Mass, in which the whole family participates Bocelli. As Christmas traditions at our table Christmas sweet bread [a sweet bread Italian] never missed.
You have sung a duet with so many partners, Celine Dion and Natalie Cole Sarah Brightman and Cecilia Bartoli. Are there singers who want to sing but have not yet?
I do not want to appear evasive, but in reality there are many colleagues with whom I like to work, and not just celebrities have always admired, but also new emerging talents sometimes find myself worldwide. There are too many names to mention, with the risk of forgetting some.
In October his recording of "Manon Lescaut" Puccini was launched with soprano Ana María Martínez and Placido Domingo driver. Does the fact that Dominic, who is also a singer, make smoother experience?
Maestro Domingo was able to make the best of the cast because he himself is a powerful singer, who perfectly knows all our needs. He carried out the scoring with a sensual power, with a wealth of nuances such that all loved it. I finished the recording sessions with a heart full of emotions and memories to cherish, with the feeling of having deepened this masterpiece, as it had never done before.
Of course, there are also "Manon" by Massenet on the same subject. That's an opera that hopes to record one day?
Why not? Massenet is a composer who I love very much. I love the elegance of his writing, his wealth of inventiveness, the colors of the orchestra, and climate soft romanticism that he is able to spread. I recorded her years "Werther" ago. I have a great interest in general for the French operatic repertoire.
Charities and charity concerts have always been important in his career, and who founded the Andrea Bocelli Foundation in 2011. What are you most proud of in what the Foundation has achieved so far?
I am proud and moved by the way the Foundation that bears my name has been able to catalyze the forces of so many volunteers, young and not young, professionals who come not only from Italy but also in many other counties, which support the Board of Directors and Advisory Board. The force of the Foundation - and my greatest pride - is the structure I like to describe as a bustling hive where the contribution of individual strengths and gives value to the team that leads to achieve results that would otherwise be have not been achieved.
Last spring, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Billboard Latin Music Awards and sang their duet 2009, "Vive Ya" with Laura Pausini. Is Latin music something you've always wanted, or that develops later?
He has always loved since I was in college and I made my living in areas of the provinces of playing the piano. I had to rise through the ranks, and that led me to deepen, sing and play many pages of this repertoire. I think that Latin music can reach the hearts of people all over the world for their warmth and their intrinsic beauty. America is a culture that has music in his blood and living the art of sound as a necessity, as a fundamental ingredient of daily life.
You recorded "Turandot" with Zubin Mehta in Valencia last summer. When will it be released?
Certainly, in the course of next year. Zubin Mehta is probably the greatest driver still in business today. ... "Turandot" is, I think, the last title of the opera of the 20th century able to arouse popular enthusiasm. The music admirably conveys under the wing of an alluring and mysterious tale as China, the languages of two centuries: the 19th century and romantic pathos, and the new turbulence of the 20th century having been able to carry out this brilliant score with Mehta on the podium is a great joy for me.
Andrea Bocelli
19:30 Sunday
Joe Louis Arena, Detroit
Tickets $ 55- $ 355
onlineticketspot.com
Still, it's been a dozen years since the clarion voice artist busy intersection has been heard in these parts.
Bocelli is now catching up on Sunday at a concert at the Joe Louis Arena time. He will be accompanied by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Kohn. Soprano Maria Aleida, violinist Caroline Campbell and Broadway singer and actress Heather Headley will join him.
Bocelli took a break during their tour to chat with us.
Can you give a preview of his concert in Detroit? I imagine being so close to Christmas there will be some selections from his CD "My Christmas".
Yes, definitely there will be selections from "My Christmas" as well as songs from the albums "Passione", "Sogno", "Concerto" and "Incanto". We have tried to create a cheerful program, including some masterpieces of opera and classical pop music, not forgetting that we will be close to the Christmas season.
Will you be back home in Italy for Christmas? What are some of your Christmas traditions?
I'll spend Christmas with my family in my home in Miami. I have always lived this time as a time of joy and devotion. It's a party that does not want to forget the true meaning of, and that is spiritual. In fact, for me the heart of Christmas is the Mass, in which the whole family participates Bocelli. As Christmas traditions at our table Christmas sweet bread [a sweet bread Italian] never missed.
You have sung a duet with so many partners, Celine Dion and Natalie Cole Sarah Brightman and Cecilia Bartoli. Are there singers who want to sing but have not yet?
I do not want to appear evasive, but in reality there are many colleagues with whom I like to work, and not just celebrities have always admired, but also new emerging talents sometimes find myself worldwide. There are too many names to mention, with the risk of forgetting some.
In October his recording of "Manon Lescaut" Puccini was launched with soprano Ana María Martínez and Placido Domingo driver. Does the fact that Dominic, who is also a singer, make smoother experience?
Maestro Domingo was able to make the best of the cast because he himself is a powerful singer, who perfectly knows all our needs. He carried out the scoring with a sensual power, with a wealth of nuances such that all loved it. I finished the recording sessions with a heart full of emotions and memories to cherish, with the feeling of having deepened this masterpiece, as it had never done before.
Of course, there are also "Manon" by Massenet on the same subject. That's an opera that hopes to record one day?
Why not? Massenet is a composer who I love very much. I love the elegance of his writing, his wealth of inventiveness, the colors of the orchestra, and climate soft romanticism that he is able to spread. I recorded her years "Werther" ago. I have a great interest in general for the French operatic repertoire.
Charities and charity concerts have always been important in his career, and who founded the Andrea Bocelli Foundation in 2011. What are you most proud of in what the Foundation has achieved so far?
I am proud and moved by the way the Foundation that bears my name has been able to catalyze the forces of so many volunteers, young and not young, professionals who come not only from Italy but also in many other counties, which support the Board of Directors and Advisory Board. The force of the Foundation - and my greatest pride - is the structure I like to describe as a bustling hive where the contribution of individual strengths and gives value to the team that leads to achieve results that would otherwise be have not been achieved.
Last spring, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Billboard Latin Music Awards and sang their duet 2009, "Vive Ya" with Laura Pausini. Is Latin music something you've always wanted, or that develops later?
He has always loved since I was in college and I made my living in areas of the provinces of playing the piano. I had to rise through the ranks, and that led me to deepen, sing and play many pages of this repertoire. I think that Latin music can reach the hearts of people all over the world for their warmth and their intrinsic beauty. America is a culture that has music in his blood and living the art of sound as a necessity, as a fundamental ingredient of daily life.
You recorded "Turandot" with Zubin Mehta in Valencia last summer. When will it be released?
Certainly, in the course of next year. Zubin Mehta is probably the greatest driver still in business today. ... "Turandot" is, I think, the last title of the opera of the 20th century able to arouse popular enthusiasm. The music admirably conveys under the wing of an alluring and mysterious tale as China, the languages of two centuries: the 19th century and romantic pathos, and the new turbulence of the 20th century having been able to carry out this brilliant score with Mehta on the podium is a great joy for me.
Andrea Bocelli
19:30 Sunday
Joe Louis Arena, Detroit
Tickets $ 55- $ 355
onlineticketspot.com
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