Signs of Betrayal & other

Leon Switch

Artist: Leon Switch

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

Tell Me

Year: 2006
Tracks: 2

UKR2010

Year: 2004
Tracks: 2

bergenPAC Sees Major Leap in Fundraising, Nears Goal of Reaching $1 Million by June 30

Performing Arts Center Needs $316,000 to Secure Matching Grant, Calls Upon
Supporters to Help Push Fundraising Drive 'Over the Top'

ENGLEWOOD, N.J., June 19 -- Through a tremendous
outpouring of support from its patrons and the local community, bergenPAC
announced today that it has raised $700,000 as part of a Capital Endowment
Campaign to ensure its long-term financial stability. As it nears its goal
of securing $1 million by June 30, the performing arts center has called
upon its friends and supporters to help push its fundraising campaign "over
the top."

"Backed by the incredible support of our friends and patrons, we've
seen a huge leap in fundraising. We're now in striking distance of our goal
and the next week will be crucial as we work to preserve the long-term
future of bergenPAC," said Frank Huttle III, bergenPAC Chairman of the
Board.

To complete phase two of its three-year growth plan, bergenPAC needs to
raise $1 million by June 30, which will trigger a matching grant from The
Russell Berrie Foundation -- which doubles the value of every gift to the
endowment before June 1. The success of the Capital Endowment Campaign
would set a strong financial foundation that would ensure bergenPAC's
long-term stability and support its mission of bringing cultural enrichment
to Bergen County and making art education and live performing arts
accessible to the entire community.

Bolstered by the support of the performing art center's friends and
patrons, bergenPAC's Capital Endowment Campaign has raised $700,000 over
the course of several weeks:

Goal: 1,000,000

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080619/NYTH096 )

Added Huttle, "Despite a soft economy, we're now very close to
completing phase two of our growth plan. We're calling upon the support of
the community to help us close the gap to create this endowment that
ensures bergenPAC will continue to be a thriving center of the arts for
years to come."

About bergenPAC:

Known as The John Harms Center for 27 years, this cultural hub in
Englewood, has been reborn as the Bergen Performing Arts Center or
bergenPAC. This 1,367-seat theater is a landmark, and in its fourth season
as bergenPAC it remains one of the finest acoustic halls in the United
States. The legendary Tony Bennett and Canadian crooner k.d. lang recorded
their 2003 Grammy award-winning CD live on bergenPAC's own stage through a
broadband fiber-optic connection with Bennett Studios. bergenPAC is the
home of a media production system that is unparalleled, upholding its
reputation as a venue for outstanding music, dance, and theater. As a
non-profit corporation, bergenPAC has thrived thanks to the aid and
generosity of sponsors, donors and patrons.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Artist: Karlheinz Stockhausen

   Genre(s):
Avantgarde

Discography:

Engel Prozessionen (Live)

Year: 2002
Tracks: 2

Elektronische Musik 1952-1960

Year: 2001
Tracks: 29

Mantra

Year: 1995
Tracks: 25

Helikopter-Streichquartett

Year: 1993
Tracks: 1

Michaels Reise

Year: 1992
Tracks: 1

Aus den sieben Tagen

Year: 1988
Tracks: 2

Tierkreis - Oberlippentanz

Year: 1983
Tracks: 2

Inori-Formel

Year: 1979
Tracks: 4

London Sinfonietta

Year: 1974
Tracks: 2

Stimmung

Year: 1969
Tracks: 2

Spiral

Year: 1968
Tracks: 4

Mikrophonie I and II, Telemusik

Year: 1966
Tracks: 99

Zyklus-Refrain-Kontakte

Year: 1960
Tracks: 3

Zeitmasse, Op. 5

Year: 1956
Tracks: 1

Kreuzspiel

Year: 1951
Tracks: 1

Kontra-Punkte op.1

Year:
Tracks: 1

Ghost writing for a friend

Former Go-Between Robert Forster tells Russell Baillie about how his late bandmate helped inspire a new album
It was going to be their 10th album together, their fourth since reforming the musical partnership which had driven indie band the Go-Betweens from Brisbane to international acclaim through the 80s, only to founder when they thought their dash was done.But the new album by Go-Betweens Robert Forster and Grant McLennan is not a Go-Betweens record.McLennan died of a heart attack on May 6, 2006. He was 48. When he died he and Forster were two months and eight songs into the new album.Instead, the result is a new Forster solo album titled The Evangelist.But if you know the Go-Betweens' folky, literate, gentle music - and the differing trademarks of the band's two songwriters - it's disconcerting, poignant listening. Especially when Forster's erudite voice sings airy melodies that are identifiably McLennan's - and especially when he sings lyrics identifiably about McLennan.On the upbeat It Ain't Easy, Forster eulogises his musical partner: "I write these words to his tune he wrote on a full moon. And a river ran, and a train ran, and a dream ran through everything that he did."

That song was one of three on the album - with Let Your Light in Babe and Demon Days ("one of the best four or five he'd ever written") - that McLennan had originated and Forster says he completed after his passing.He had occasionally written lyrics to his partner's melodies before.But this time It Ain't Easy became the song that punctuates the end of the Go-Betweens. He thinks McLennan would be pleased with the results."Obviously in there, there are things which would amuse him that was also part of our friendship, and on the likes of It Ain't Easy to put in a portrait of him and enshrine him in a way in a pop song, he would find amusing and good."Let Your Light In Babe he would find good and humorous, and Demon Days is hard - it's a song of great earnestness and I can only hope he liked what I did there."On It Ain't Easy, Go-Betweens trainspotters might recall that locomotives were forever steaming through McLennan's songs. There was a good reason for that, says Forster."Where he died he was living beside a train track. I remember when we played guitar in front of his little shack that he had, trains would go by while we were outside playing guitar. So it's quite real."And while recording the album in London with Mark Wallis, who produced the Go-Betweens 80s swansong classic 16 Lovers Lane, Forster set up a space for his absent friend in the studio."Grant's ghost was there, but there weren't too many sad moments," Forster wrote in a piece for Britain's Sunday Times. "His amp was set up and a guitar of his stood on a stand. We all had to work a bit faster because Grant's turn to sing or play never came around."

Madonna - Ting Tings End Madonnas Chart Reign

The Ting Tings have taken the top spot in the singles chart, ending Madonna's four weeks at the top.

Their track That's Not My Name also denied Rihanna another number one, with Take A Bow coming in at number two. Madonna's 4 Minutes slipped two places to three.

Will I Am's Heartbreaker and Wearing My Rolex by Wiley completed the top five in the singles charts.

In the album chart it was Neil Diamond who returned to the top with Home Before Dark, straight in at number one.

Last week's top album, Jumping All Over The World from Scooter, was down a couple of places to number three with In Silico by Pendulum straight in at two.

Ol' Blue Eyes made a return to the top ten with Nothing But The Best at ten, while Jay Sean was new at six with My Own Way.

Flight of the Conchords, the BBC3 New Zealand comedy duo, did not repeat their US success on this side of the Atlantic. Their self-titled album was a new entry at number 33.

18/05/2008 20:00:16

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