"I had played a few concerts already the first year I was in school, and it has slowly and steadily built from there.
In addition to concerts already publicized, the City Parks Foundation yesterday announced the rest of its 30 free concerts and 6 benefit shows.
While there have been some concerts already (Lenny Kravitz and Ani DiFranco raised $300,000 on a May 16 concert), they pale in comparison to the over $50 M raised for Haiti.
The concert had already started.
Naturally, tickets for the Dec. 15 concert are already being offered on eBay.
People stopped every few minutes to sign, despite the fact that the concert had already begun.
By the time it was clear that the operation had been successful, an elaborate memorial concert had already been planned, so Jones figured it might as well go ahead.
But the 2003 winner, John Relyea, who is in rehearsals for "Lucia di Lammermoor" at Covent Garden in London and will not attend this concert, is already a presence at the Met, and a marvelously developing one, with a fine Figaro this fall.
In a blow to the summer concert season already hurt by the loss of big tours by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, the touring Lollapalooza festival has been canceled because of poor ticket sales, the festival organizers said yesterday.
But the real heat of the concert had already passed in three songs immediately before: Ms. Franklin's impromptu duet with Ronald Isley in a roof-raising "The Way We Were"; a breezy account of "I Say a Little Prayer" with Ms. Rice on piano; and a slow-burning "Dr. Feelgood" in which Ms. Franklin, at the piano, truly showed the sanctified might of her still-formidable voice.
