CMT Crossroads: Taylor Swift & Def Leppard brings Great Britain's premier rock arena band and the best-selling artist of 2008 together for a magical night of hit songs and electrifying performances…
In the world of MikkiM, a place where the united beats of techno, jungle and breakbeat meet the hypnotic offbeats of ska & reggae, the psychedelic dub space delays and the dirty wild punk notes. In my songs I'm using, besides my own ideas, a lot of my favourite music that I sample, reshape and deform with the help of my machines and computer. In my livesets and in my studio stuff, you might hear some well known sampled fragments, basslines, vocals, etc. from The Clash, Madness, Specials,Renegade Soundwave, Dreadzone,and many more surprises.
The blindside blues band to mastermind Mike Onesko belongs to the top of the power-Blues. Rarely the blues of similar to hard 'n' is interpreted currently heavy as of this combo. Classic 'old school' is equipped with hardest riffs and powerful fills them. Oneskos game is trained to guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Robin Trower, also cream or deep purple fall to benchmark - the spectacular musicality of everyone never gets to the end in itself, but is always the band subordinates.
Miyako Yoshida dances the title role originally created for Margot Fonteyn in the hauntingly beautiful underwater world of Ondine, vividly brought to life by The Royal Ballet. Frederick Ashton's shimmering choreography, Lila de Nobili's impressionistic designs and Hans Werner Henze's specially commissioned, vibrant and inventive score, memorably combine to evoke the many moods and colours of the sea.
To mark the 250th anniversary of Handel's death, Vienna's Theater an der Wien realized a truly extraordinary project: the staging of Messiah, the composer's most popular oratorio. Collaborating with an exquisite cast of singers, Claus Guth, one of today's highly renowned stage directors, delivered 'an emotionally and psychologically charged sequence of images. . . The audience was thrilled' (Süddeutsche Zeitung).