Jordan’s residency at Millersville began Monday April 19 and continues through the 21. During her stay here, she is filling her time as tirelessly as possible. Throughout the week, she will meet with faculty and students, conduct lectures, discuss the highs and lows of the career of a musician, hold a question and answer session with music majors, participate in a music master class, and work personally with the Millersville University Jazz Band.
Jazz and Java, a night of fresh gourmet coffee, lip smacking bite-sized desserts, and a distinct mix of jazz beats, hit off its twelfth annual show on Thursday. At 7:30 PM in the Student Memorial Center, a swinging rendition of Duke Ellington’s jazz standard “Things Ain’t What They Used to Be” was performed. The song, which featured impressive solos from the saxophone section, set the tone for what was an exceptional night of music.
For those who are unfamiliar with the group, She & Him could be more aptly named “She & (brief supplementary cameos from) Him.” Or maybe “She Sings About Him.” Of course, those do not sound nearly as good.
The band, featuring actress turned singer Zooey Deschanel, perhaps best known for her role in “500 Days of Summer,” and producer, singer, and guitarist Matthew Ward (better known by his stage name, M. Ward), formed in early 2007 after the pair met on the set of “The Go-Getter,” in which Deschanel had a starring role. After being asked to perform a duet for the end credits, the two found they shared musical interests and inspirations. On a whim, Deschanel sent Ward years of demos she had recorded, and the two began a musical collaboration.
Given the tragedy artist Corinne Bailey Rae has faced in the recent past, it certainly would not be expected of her to do much for a while. After seven years of marriage, her husband, Scottish musician Jason Rae, was found dead in a Hyde Park flat. Doctors eventually ruled the death as accidental, saying Rae overdosed on a mixture of methadone and alcohol.
Ryan Bingham’s job and the attitude it inspires can be summed up pretty succinctly.
“You’re going to go home tomorrow and make more money than you’ve ever made in your life, and I’m going to go home without a paycheck.”
Supergroups can be tricky. Sure, the formula sounds good: Take a handful of already famous musicians, throw them together in a room, produce an album, and set up a tour, complete with a previously established (and massive) fan base that is guaranteed, based on their loyalty to one or more of the members, to buy into the idea.
Understanding the difficulties of a situation as complex as having a sibling or child with a disability is somewhat troublesome. Greater still is the grueling task of conveying such complexities through an artistic medium.
In her 2008 film “The Black Balloon,” director Elissa Down takes on the challenge. Through subtleties in cinematography, dialogue, and acting, she skillfully manages to take what can be a cluttered mess of a situation and translates it into an emotional experience one can relate to.
It’s not a rare thing for a person to be moved by a play.
It is, however, a rare thing to come out of a performance feeling emotionally touched, mentally stirred, provoked, humored, sympathetic, and, let’s face it, angry; but that’s precisely what “All Our Young Black Men Are Dying and No One Seems to Care” sets out to do.
Lady Antebellum started out trying to take their fans by surprise, the band came up with their name during an early photo shoot, where they used a southern mansion as a backdrop. They knew the name, which, admittedly, creates the idea of a girl group, would confuse fans. “That was partly why we thought it was cool,” instrumentalist Dave Haywood said.
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