The pedagogical lesson of last Monday night's Jazz Breakthroughs concert at Merkin Hall, starring Jimmy Heath's Quartet with Phil Schaap as host, was that the transition years of jazz in the 1940's were fruitful but wrenching.
Back in 2010, Louie's breakthrough stand-up concert film, Hilarious, became the first of its kind to ever play at the Sundance Film Festival.
One of the breakthroughs of 20th-century choreography was its revelatory discovery of concert music, so that ballets to concertos, symphonies and other works never intended for dance were expanded onstage in dance terms.
SEATTLE — Three months before he killed himself, Kurt Cobain spoke of his band's breakthrough single at a concert here that turned out to be one of Nirvana's final performances in the United States.
Their brilliance grew out of flirting with disaster: the awkward experiments that paved the way for stunning breakthroughs, the chaotic concerts that crystallised in moments of wild magic, the puzzlingly opaque lyrics that could be either ridiculous or sublime.
Her first breakthrough came with a successful concert in Hollywood Bowl.
A breakthrough design for Gehry, the concert hall also established the critical importance of contemporary architecture to the evolving identity of cities.
Gordon R. Gould, ThisNext's 37-year-old founder and chief executive, started a blogging company, was chief operating officer of the Silicon Alley Reporter, worked for a time for Sony and was involved in a breakthrough cybercast of a Rolling Stones concert from Madison Square Garden in the 1990s.
He himself played seven concerts there with his breakthrough duo, the White Stripes, and later had two performances as the headliner.
The Shea Stadium show with which they opened their 1965 North American tour attracted an estimated 55,600 people, then the largest audience in concert history; Spitz describes the event as a "major breakthrough ... a giant step toward reshaping the concert business".
