‘He Is Our Sinatra’: Lin-Manuel Miranda on Why Marc Anthony — and His New Album, ‘Muevense’ — Are So Important (EXCLUSIVE) If you are Latino/Latina/Latiné and living anywhere on planet Earth, you have a series of unforgettable moments where Marc Anthony’s voice was soaring across your life. It may have been your ... 04/24/2024 - 2:55 am | View Link
Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda performs King George III song in front of royals Lord Lloyd Webber, while playing the piano, asked Miranda: “Do you have a Hamilton selection for our Queen?,” referencing his Tony and Olivier award-winning rap musical about American founding ... 06/4/2022 - 11:02 am | View Link
Lin-Manuel Miranda on Disney, Sondheim and Hamilton 2021 was a busy year for Lin- Manuel Miranda, the film version of his musical ... Dos Oruguitas from Encanto has been nominated for an Oscar. He took time out of his busy schedule to speak to ... 04/12/2022 - 12:47 pm | View Link
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Oscar Nomination Puts Him One Step Closer to EGOT Lin-Manuel Miranda ... Prize for “Hamilton.” There are currently only two other people in the world who hold that honor, Hamlisch and Richard Rodgers. Miranda was last Oscar-nominated five ... 02/8/2022 - 1:11 am | View Link
Review: Disney’s ‘Encanto’ enchants with awkward teen heroine and catchy tunes from Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda The fabulous Madrigals have supercool abilities, but similar problems to your average family in the musical fantasy, fuelled by a tonne of peppy new Lin-Manuel Miranda ... role to play for a ... 11/16/2021 - 3:00 am | View Link
“Donald Trump’s political operation raised more than $76 million in April, campaign officials told donors on Saturday,” Politico reports.
“Trump advisers revealed the number, up from $65.6 million in March, during a presentation at a private Trump campaign and Republican National Committee-hosted donor retreat.”
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) became the latest Republican to hit Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) over her plan to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), The Hill reports.
Said Crenshaw: “She needs her time in the spotlight, you know, and it’s been a while, and I think it’s one last ditch effort to get attention, is what she’s looking for.”
“Charlie Spies, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, was pushed out of his new role just two months after taking the job, amid a storm of controversy over conflicts involving other clients at the firm where he still works,“ the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Spies, a veteran election-law lawyer whom the R.
“On his first visit to Europe in five years, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, appears intent on seizing opportunities to loosen the continent’s bonds with the United States and forge a world freed of American dominance,” the New York Times reports..
“The Chinese leader has chosen three countries to visit — France, Serbia and Hungary — that each, to a greater or lesser degree, look askance at America’s postwar ordering of the world, see China as a necessary counterweight and are eager to bolster economic ties.”
Gary Moore is one of the least talked about guitarists of his time, but man could he rock.
Still Got the Blues For You is in my mind his signature track.
Music Radar conducted an excellent interview with Moore and he discussed his music and guitar playing in general.
Moore also has some advice for the prolix guitar player, and we have surely all been one, coming down with acute case of fretboard diarrhoea and using too many notes in our solos.
Take a phrase, says Moore, and work on it, playing around with all the different permutations, accenting the first, second, or maybe the last notes, working on the dynamics – these are all ways of workshopping your phrasing and learning how to make more out of something simple and familiar.