It's the kind of rehearsed perfection that used to be standard in the live-concert sphere, but that has fallen off somewhat in the years since touring has become the majority of an artist's paycheck; since most artists have to perform, there's not as much pressure to act like you really earned your being there.
On Thursday night at Merkin Concert Hall, the Tribeca New Music Festival presented two fascinating chamber ensembles built around the electric guitar: a relative newcomer to the concert-music sphere, still reluctant to curb its exuberance or disguise its roots in popular idioms.
In Final Fantasy X-2, the population of Spira pursues additional leisures including attending concerts and a coin-collecting fad called Sphere Break.
In his new album, "Spirit Song" (Verve/Universal), in a magnificent Ornette Coleman concert two years ago and in the recently rehabilitated quartet Sphere, Mr. Barron has served the style of the music set before him.
In his new album "Spirit Song" (Verve/Universal), in a magnificent Ornette Coleman concert two years ago, and in the recently rehabilitated quartet Sphere, Mr. Barron serves the style of the music set before him.
We've lost sight of its original roots in the Greek notion of the polis: the democratic sphere in which citizens, acting in concert, determine the character and direction of their society.
Official Coachella "balloonatic" Brandon Kuhens monitored the strand of floating spheres as concert-goers amid the endless string of white balloons draped across the grounds. .
Additionally, the Songstress dressphere worn by Yuna is revealed to hold Lenne's memories, resulting in a sphere screen projecting them to everyone in attendance during the concert.
Plans include concerts of operatic repertoire, and also visits from iconic musicians from beyond the classical sphere, from India, Brazil or Africa, who would bring a new audience with them.
The speaker sphere, with each of its 98 speakers wired and connected to a stack of concert amplifiers, put out 78,000 watts of power, breaking factory windows when the production "cranked it up".
