Sam Rivers and Eric Reed both made joyful noise on Saturday at Alice Tully Hall in a concert featuring music commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Since 1984, they have also made joyful noises with their garage rock band, the A-Bones, with Ms. Linna, 57, on drums, and Mr. Miller singing.
The Intergenerational Orchestra will perform a holiday concert, "Making Joyful Sounds," at 3 p.m. today at the Cranford High School, for which a modest admission ($4 will be charged.
"Now is the time to drink fine wine, As the perfume of musk wafts from the heights, The air is full of cries and the earth trembles, Happy is he made joyful by drinking...."...
Tap dancers young and old made joyful noises in "Tap Extravaganza 2001," a program of performances and award presentations produced by the New York Committee to Celebrate National Tap Dance Day on Sunday night at Town Hall.
Watching and nodding as I myself made joyful sense of it, she said, "Are we in the south of France or what?" Actually, we were in Chelsea, though it was easy to be confused.
Your boiled egg's stone cold!" Billy Liar: 50 Years On (Radio 4) was a fan's paean, by Blake Morrison, to Keith Waterhouse's novel, and made joyful use of clips from the film it inspired.
Born in the Canary Islands, the outpost of Spain off northwestern Africa, and now based in Barcelona, Mr. Díaz-Reixa makes joyful music from an international assortment of loops and drumbeats — African, South Asian, Caribbean, Brazilian — and vocals, with free-associative lyrics in Spanish, that sound like a bunch of guys in a bar celebrating to endless three-chord refrains full of la-las.
Underrate that if you will, but Stevie Wonder made joyful hits that endured for decades, and now Pharrell has made at least one.
"He would call it the 'play principle' the idea that the eye should be made joyful through form and content.
