Conductors Stefano Vignati and Jorge Perez-Gomez say the only way to teach music is to teach its meaning. "It's not an abstraction where you come and look at notes and you play," Perez-Gomez said. "Our real job as teachers is to help students make a relation between the meaning of the piece and their own life experience.
by Luke Nihlen Daily Lobo Who knew that being a geek would put me in contact with royalty? Someone who claims he is the ex-prince of Nigeria has e-mailed me at least once a month for years now. He has a little deal going that he wants to involve some of my money in.
by Luke Nihlen Daily Lobo Kenny can stay awake longer, but Spenny makes a more convincing woman. "Kenny Vs. Spenny," a new show premiering on GSN Thursday, pits two lifelong best friends, Kenny Hotz and Spencer "Spenny" Rice, against one another in head-to-head competitions in events of their choosing.
by Krista Pino Daily Lobo A 16-year-old surfer girl with a split personality who may in fact be a serial killer sets the scene for the very physical comedy and a perfect date play, "Psycho Beach Party." And it just gets stranger from there. "There's plenty of love to go around in this play," said Craig Anderson, the play's director.
A band of Low Flying Owls swooped down one day and took me on a trip to the past. With moody, psychedelic instrumentals and even moodier vocals, Elixir Vitae, the Low Flying Owls' second full-length release, has conjured images and soundscapes that could only develop after years of '70s music-induced bliss.
One of the world's most famous architects, Louis Kahn, mysteriously died penniless and alone in a restroom in Penn Station at the age of 73. The documentary of his life is much like an artistic obituary, but the filmmaker does not leave out the secrets and mistakes of his father's life.
Anyone who has ever lived in suburbia knows the mold: two-car garage, two-story house that looks exactly like the one next door, seven-foot fence, anonymous families and silent faces. UNM graduate student Chad Person knows this pattern all too well and has chosen his latest show "A Model Community" to portray his own experience in a gated community.
The beauty of any art form is that it is open to interpretation. A serial killer, for example, might see something drastically different from a 93-year-old man. OptiCon, an art exhibit about renewing optical consciousness, builds on that perspective and attempts to force the viewer into actually seeing the piece.
When "Romeo and Juliet" and modern playwrights collided, "West Side Story" was born. This weekend a whole new breed of the much loved musical will be born at UNM's Popejoy Hall. "It's got to be interesting for people who have never seen 'West Side Story' and are familiar with 'Romeo and Juliet' to see how Shakespeare's language was transposed into American vernacular," said David Chavez, director and choreographer of the Popejoy production.
For those who've ever wanted to travel around the world, now is their chance - and it will be cheaper than ever imagined. At this year's fifth-annual World Language Expo, participants will be granted the opportunity to experience more than 20 different languages and their respective cultures.
UNM freshman Gabi Rojas is running away with the circus. In February, her hard work and dedication to dance won her a spot in the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil troupe. She made her professional circus debut with Circus America in Puerto Rico at age 5.
Grade A+ Ladies and gentlemen, make way, make way for Pixar on crack and Simpsons on smack - Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation has come to town and anyone looking for a healthy dose of disturbing humor can get their fill and more Friday at Madstone.
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, he wrote that time devours all things. This is true in most cases, but writer Mary Zimmerman resurrects Ovid's ancient myths to remind humanity of the lessons that can be learned through stories. She reminds audiences, most importantly, of-the-magic in myths that our nine to five culture has left behind.
Sometimes life hands you lemons and all you can do is add some sugar to the unpleasant fruit and make lemonade. Listening to the Florida pseudo-punk fivesome, the Washdown's album of lemons causes a real thirst for some good lemonade. Yes To Everything, the Washdown's first full-length album, is an exercise in mediocrity.
It is difficult to visualize the horrific torture Jesus experienced during the last 12 hours of his life until one sees Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." The film presents a realistic picture of the time period with the dialogue spoken in Latin, Aramaic and Hebrew with English subtitles.
Before Lee Quiones was painting murals in Rome, showing his work at galleries in Paris and designing sets for music videos, he got his work to the masses via a less legal method -he spray painted subway cars. In fact, Quiones sprayed entire cars from top to bottom creating giant, forty-foot murals.
Albuquerque High School student Damien Flores reads his poem "Random Haiku Death Match" during a poetry slam at the Blue Dragon Coffee House on Feb. 13. Tonight marks UNM's first annual Slam Off Finals, an event which will send a team of poets to the 2004 College Unions Poetry Invitational.
If the thought of another watercolor still life is less than exciting, UNM's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology has the answer. "The last Saturday of every month we invite a different artist from a different culture to share an art form particular to that culture," said Carol Anne Brannan, public programs coordinator for the Maxwell Museum.
Today Ash Wednesday marks not only the beginning of Lent, but also the opening of Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ." The film graphically depicts the last 12 hours of Jesus' life as recounted in the Gospel stories of the New Testament.
by Luke Nihlen Daily Lobo There's this romantic notion among hardened computer dorks that ideas, thoughts and language are more real than everyday objects. Our very view of the world is skewed toward language rather than actuality - this is why I just had to have an iPod.
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