The moon set on the final performance of Dracula Saturday night. Though the story is as old as the Count himself, it came to life anew in the Burke Theater. The spotlight shown down through the dark on the eternal drama between: the flash of youth and the thirst of age, the shadow of madness [...]
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Love Hurts
Posted in Performing Arts, tagged theater on November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Listening to Last Summer
Posted in Performing Arts, tagged music on July 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Eleanor Freidberger, 1/2 of the Fiery Furnaces along with her brother Matt, just released her first solo album, Last Summer. Sure enough, the album was recorded last summer and saved for release this July. Where the Furnaces sang elliptical, runic-like lyrics surrounded by late-Beatles influenced musical suites, Last Summer uses powerfully straight-forward rock song structures [...]
“It’s Time to Get (Cory) Frank” & Hit the Capital Fringe
Posted in Community, Performing Arts on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Capital Fringe Festival is back, in full swing from now until July 24. Never been? Not sure what it is? Well, it’s simple: Fringe provides all artists, whether new or established, a venue to express and develop their talents and artistic visions in total freedom. And it’s a lot: last year Fringe sold 28,000 [...]
Jump Jive ‘N Wail
Posted in Performing Arts, tagged music on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The curtain came down on Burke’s 2011 Band Camp a week ago. But not before the (pretty) big band played a concert before an SRO crowd. The band included musicians from 7th through 12 grades, as well as 3 alum teachers, and one Jumpin’ Jivin’ ‘n Wailin’ Maestro (John Howard). The show covered the [...]
Scott Gets Top Billing
Posted in Community, Performing Arts, tagged theater on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Make sure to check out the great spread in today’s Washington Post about Scott Kenison, who is leaving his 8 year role as COO of the Atlas Performing Arts Center, a cultural anchor on the H St., corridor. Money line from the article: “Now Kenison, [...,*] and his partner, David Shapiro, have decided it’s time [...]
Storybook Story
Posted in Performing Arts, tagged music on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve spent much of the last 24 hours doing a retrospective of the great Americana musician, Willy Deville. He grew up on Jackie Wilson, Ben E. King, Elvis, Platters, ’60′s girl groups, before becoming a hard to peg, not-really punk icon in the late ’70′s. His seminal band, Mink Deville, was a fixture at CBGB’s [...]
Rock of Ages Pt. 2 – Show Me the Money
Posted in Performing Arts, tagged music on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Burke Band D lays down its Money for Nothing… w/ a crazy behind the back solo by Walker ’11. Videography thanks go to Bob Somerville… the trumpet player’s dad! More to come…
Rock of Ages
Posted in Performing Arts, tagged music on June 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The best rock & roll songs get started with the drummer banging his/her sticks together and counting off so that the other band members come in at the right time and rhythm. That’s how Tuesday’s Band Showcase kicked-off. True to form, the night started with Wylie counting off the Junior/Senior band into a driving Proud [...]
Changin’
Posted in Community, Performing Arts, tagged Community, music on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last Thursday morning, family, faculty and friends honored the graduating 2011 Senior class. In the middle of the ceremony, members of the senior band, Kevin, Walker, Carter, Wylie, Sam, Rosio and Nora, reprised their version of Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide that the band first played in 8th grade. The lyrics at the core of the song [...]
Academic Awards – A Landslide and Trip to Spain
Posted in Administration, Performing Arts, Uncategorized, tagged academic award, Burke band, Kevin, Nora, Rosio, Sam, wiley on May 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our seniors take a tour down memory lane with Landslide first performed at their 8th grade Coming Up celebration. First time they played Spain this unplugged. http://gallery.me.com/messdukemac#100100&bgcolor=black&view=grid
Songs For My Father(s & Mothers & Friends)
Posted in Performing Arts, Uncategorized, tagged music on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In what has become a must-attend event, on Monday the Burke Bands made their annual pilgrimage to Blues Alley, DC’s home for jazz and blues. The Bands Let the Good Times Roll (Band B’s opening number) all night long. As usual, the evening covered the musical waterfront, from a rollicking version of Proud Mary, complete [...]
Music for a Sunday Morning
Posted in Performing Arts on May 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Julianna Barwick, is a one woman sound engine, looping and processing her voice to create music that is at once complex and simple, melodic and atmospheric. Have a great Mothers Day Sunday! An indirect h/t to Gail. Thanks!
Home & Hearth
Posted in Burke y El Mundo, Community, Performing Arts, tagged music on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The first space at Burke that most people connect with is the Atrium. It is Burke’s home within a home. At any given moment it is Burke’s meeting place, social network, stage, study hall, town square, cathedral, coffee house, sanctuary, etc. Enter the Atrium alone at night – and you can almost feel the echos [...]
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