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iTunes: Favorite Artists & Albums
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- Category: Culture
- Published on Saturday, 10 April 2004 00:00
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
- Hits: 1823
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artists/albums are available through Apple's online iTunes Music Store.
For other artists' sites and information, visit the Music category of my links directory.- Ace of Base
- Annie Lennox
- Billy Joel
- Cirque du Soleil
- Chumbawamba
- Coldplay
- Deep Blue Something
- Dirty Vegas
- Drifters
- Ed Van Fleet
- Enya
- Gaelic Storm
- Green Day
- Haddaway
- Harry Belafonte
- Hootie and The Blowfish
- Immortal Egypt
- Jason Mraz
- Jesse Cook
- Jewel
- John Philip Sousa
- John Tesh
- Les MisÈrables (Orig. Broadway Cast)
- Loreena McKennitt
- Michelle Branch
- Moby
- Moulin Rouge Soundtrack
- Nickelback
- Peter Gabriel
- Philip Glass
- R.E.M.
- Ricky Martin
- Santana
- Savage Garden
- Seal
- Sheryl Crow
- Smash Mouth
- Sting
- Third Eye Blind
- U2
- Ventures, The
- Verve, The
- Willy Porter
Ancient Egypt Exhibition
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- Category: Culture
- Published on Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:00
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
- Hits: 864
If you haven't seen The
Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt at
the Milwaukee Public Museum, you should make a point before August 8
comes and goes. The grand scale of this exhibit has truly
breathed new cultural excitement into our museum.
MSO Concert: Thundering Glass!
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- Category: Culture
- Published on Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:00
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
- Hits: 1168
I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's "Rolling Thunder" concert, featuring a powerful timpani concerto and evocative symphonic poems.
"If you prick us, do we not bleed?"
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- Category: Culture
- Published on Sunday, 27 March 2005 00:00
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
- Hits: 1697
Featuring stellar performances by Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Lynn Collins, and complemented by elegant, colorful and extravagent sets and costumes, Sony Classics' film, William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice beautifully captured the essence of this controversial and multifaceted play. The film is now available on DVD.
Enigmatic Stigmata
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- Category: Culture
- Published on Saturday, 23 July 2005 00:00
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
- Hits: 2804
"Enigmatic."† That's the only word that comes close to seizing the essence of the stirring performances and rousing visuals that comprise Rupert Wainwright's 1999 film Stigmata.
Much in the spirit of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, Stimata challenges the dogmatic institution of the Catholic Church in favor of the core values of Christianity.† Utilizing a potent motif mixture of miracles, science, faith and possession, the plot effectively leads the audience to a masterful denouement, where the truth -- as it were -- that unravels is ironic, striking and believable.
Montrèal "Cooks"
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- Published on Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:00
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
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Jesse Cook's album Gravity proclaims his unique sound as "Rumba Flamenco World Beat Jazz Pop." What a mouthful. Now, many of my friends consider my taste in music to be "eclectic." I like some rock, some alternative, some R&B, some pop, some classical and some jazz/vocal. I really like new age and "world/folk" music. My favorite artists masterfully blend different genres together to produce that indescribable harmonious sound that invariably creates the perfect soundtrack to work to, play to, and relax by.
McKennitt's Ancient Muse: "Harmonious, Integrated Diversity"
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- Published on Monday, 01 January 2007 17:00
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
- Hits: 1322
I recently downloaded Loreena McKennitt's new album, Ancient Muse, from the iTunes Store . Loreena McKennitt's penchant for Celtic music is infused with an homage toward the intercultural interactions in the Holy Land. The download came with a digital booklet, that for its fascinating read, was practically worth the value of the CD itself!
Read more: McKennitt's Ancient Muse: "Harmonious, Integrated Diversity"
The Scottish Play at Milwaukee Shakespeare
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- Published on Saturday, 10 March 2007 17:00
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
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"Fair is foul and foul is fair." One of Shakespeare's darkest darkest tragedies served as Milwaukee Shakespeare's premier production in 1999, and was its inaugural production in the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center of the Arts in Brookfield, representing a new era of successful ventures by this forward-looking company that brings the timeless austerity of the Bard to modern day masses. In a word, "spectacle" captures the essence of this production that explores the ambitious human drive for power, that despite its trappings, still seems to entangle leaders and would-be leaders today.
Milwaukee Rep's Tartuffe
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:36
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
- Hits: 1967
When I start talking about Moliere's Tartuffe in my IB Theatre classes,
my students grin, smirk and roll their eyes, because they know it's a
play I love to prattle on about! The particular English translation by
Richard Wilbur upholds the linguistic integrity of heroic couplets and
diction to truly enhance the often farcical nature of the play.
Tarantino Hits the Mark with "Kill Bill"
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:47
- Written by Adam J. Jacobi
- Hits: 1679
Okay. So I'm behind the times. As usual, my inspiration for cultural exposure comes vis-a-vis my students. In this case, a few of them brought in excerpts of Kill Bill as exhibits of Japanese culture at the beginning of the IB Theatre 1 noh theatre unit.