Rolf Ableiter tells us he cannot imagine an alternative musical career to his act "Field Commander C," named in honour of "Field Commander Cohen," Leonard Cohen's 1979 tour of Europe. His musical love letter to his idol, in a strong, rich voice and a band to match, sold out Peterskirsche in Leipzig on November 8th,
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Like her character in "Dancer in the Dark," Björk turns a tragedy into a musical in "Cornucopia." The iconic genre-bending artist is able to stare over the edge of the cliff with a stubborn hope as we all hurtle towards it. We attended her concert in Leipzig on 24 November and share our insights with
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An insider view of the Wave-Gotik-Treffen, held May 26-29 this year. The annual pilgrimage brings tens of thousands of goths from all over the globe to Leipzig.
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Shaking with emotion, the singer places her mobile phone on the music stand. She picks up the microphone. The Leipzig Gewandhaus is hushed and tense. Struggling to hold her voice steady, the young woman in western dress sings the lyrics relayed to her phone via Twitter. It is a new protest song direct from the
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I have a thing about theatre. I want it to be either utterly exhilarating and breathtakingly brilliant or so lamentably, gut-twistingly inept as to be a delicious and hilarious spectacle. That’s probably quite mean. It’s also probably quite true of a lot of people. Theatre can take you on a journey that film can’t. You
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How does one describe a Pussy Riot performance? Music? Theatre? Activism? Art? Curiosity led a select public to their intimate concert at Täubchenthal in Leipzig on Friday night. Some, perhaps, in the hope of answering that question. The latest Pussy Riot mixed tape released out of the States is “Matriarchy Now“. Anyone expecting to be
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