http://www.post-gazette.com/ Music news and blogs from post-gazette.com en-us Copyright 2012, post-gazette.com. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:09:56 -0500 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1208189-388-0.stm?cmpid=music.xml As Thomas Hampson neared the end of his part in Brahms' glorious "Ein Deutsches Requiem" he intoned, "Behold, I show you a mystery." It was hard for me to not take these words at face value even in the midst of a work of profound spirituality and one set to biblical verse. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:31:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12035/1207970-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml Bruce Springsteen guitarist Steve Van Zandt says touring without saxophonist Clarence Clemons is sure to be emotional for the E Street Band and its audience. Mr. Clemons died at age 69 last year after a stroke. Mr. Van Zandt said Thursday that the band's work will always be a tribute to Mr. Clemons and keyboard player Danny Federici, who died in 2008. Mr. Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207465-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:25:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207457-388-0.stm?cmpid=music.xml Anti-Flag takes peace and punk to Asia Anti-Flag is out making new friends -- in Southeast Asia. On its first-ever swing through the region, the political Pittsburgh band has been rallying the punks at the Silver Lake Music Festival in Thailand (with the likes of Incubus, Owl City and Seether) and in Indonesia, and is now moving on to Malaysia and Hong Kong. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:36:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207454-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml Coincidences can be startling: one week after I received the debut solo EP from local "party martyr" Sneaky Mike (featuring the single "Lil B"), a cover story emerged in the respected British music mag The Wire about that very same Lil B, the "Based God" rapper from Berkeley, Calif. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:18:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207696-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml Ben Folds will return to Heinz Hall to perform with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. May 25. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:59:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207528-437.stm?cmpid=music.xml Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:35:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207419-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml It started out as a memorial for a friend, became a tribute to a mother and ended up a message for humanity. Johannes Brahms' "A German Requiem" was all of that, and it is one of his most enduring compositions. The death in 1856 of Robert Schumann, the great German composer and close friend, inspired the choral work. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:48:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207418-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml With names such as Couperin instead of Chopin, Blow instead of Brahms, and Purcell instead of Prokofiev, the music of the 17th century needs a little help being appreciated. You'd almost say it needs a Bernstein to bridge the gap. That's exactly what National Public Radio has tagged acclaimed harpsichordist and conductor Richard Egarr, and he is up to the challenge. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207453-388-0.stm?cmpid=music.xml You may have seen her on "Saturday Night Live." She was the one in the formal gown so shaky on the vocal you could swear eyes were scanning for the Exit sign. Adele, she's not. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12033/1207466-388.stm?cmpid=music.xml "It's broken, stays broken forever/I'm keeping my heart intact," Ben Hackett sings in a tearful moan over a piano dirge on his second album, "The Blue Hour." This is indeed an album for the brokenhearted. Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500