Rita Moreno got very honest during a recent episode of Busy Tonight.
Remembering the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors — where she received the distinction along with Carole King, George Lucas, Cicely Tyson and conductor Seiji Ozawa — Moreno, 87, revealed that the excitement became almost too much for her body to handle.
“The night before the actual Kennedy Center honors, when you see them on television, they have something that’s really almost more wonderful,” she said on the E! talk show, seated alongside her One Day at a Time costar Justina Machado and the show’s executive producer Gloria Calderon.
“They have a...
Remembering the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors — where she received the distinction along with Carole King, George Lucas, Cicely Tyson and conductor Seiji Ozawa — Moreno, 87, revealed that the excitement became almost too much for her body to handle.
“The night before the actual Kennedy Center honors, when you see them on television, they have something that’s really almost more wonderful,” she said on the E! talk show, seated alongside her One Day at a Time costar Justina Machado and the show’s executive producer Gloria Calderon.
“They have a...
- 3/8/2019
- by Dana Rose Falcone
- PEOPLE.com
As the world’s attention turns to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics opening ceremony — airing Friday morning stateside — take a look back at the most dramatic and emotional moments of opening ceremonies past.
2014 Sochi
The most expensive Olympics to date ($51 billion) got underway with a spectacular opening ceremony that included dizzying light displays, locomotives, five sailing ships, a giant dancing bear, tributes to Russian arts and literature, and an inflatable replica of St. Basil’s cathedral.
Controversy began long before the Games, however, as Vladimir Putin’s regime was accused of civil rights violations, including anti-lgbtq measures that made it a...
2014 Sochi
The most expensive Olympics to date ($51 billion) got underway with a spectacular opening ceremony that included dizzying light displays, locomotives, five sailing ships, a giant dancing bear, tributes to Russian arts and literature, and an inflatable replica of St. Basil’s cathedral.
Controversy began long before the Games, however, as Vladimir Putin’s regime was accused of civil rights violations, including anti-lgbtq measures that made it a...
- 2/7/2018
- by Kurt Pitzer
- PEOPLE.com
Many consider Dmitri Shostakovich the greatest composer of the 20th century. Born September 25, 1906, he might not have lived past his teens if he hadn't been talented. During the famines of the Revolutionary period in Russia, Alexander Glazunov, director of the Petrograd (later Leningrad) Conservatory, arranged for the poor and malnourished Shostakovich's food ration to be increased. Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1, his graduation exercise for Maximilian Steinberg's composition course at the Conservatory, was completed in 1925 at age 19 and was an immediate success worldwide. He was The Party's poster boy; his Second and Third Symphonies unabashedly subtitled, respectively, "To October". (celebrating the Revolution) and "The First of May". (International Workers' Day).
His highly emotional harmonic language is simultaneously tough yet communicative, but his expansion of Mahlerian symphonic structure, dissonances, sardonic irony, and dark moods eventually clashed with the conservative edicts of Communist Party officials. In 1936 he was viciously denounced by Pravda...
His highly emotional harmonic language is simultaneously tough yet communicative, but his expansion of Mahlerian symphonic structure, dissonances, sardonic irony, and dark moods eventually clashed with the conservative edicts of Communist Party officials. In 1936 he was viciously denounced by Pravda...
- 9/26/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Glenn Frey, a founding member of Eagles who sang and wrote many of the band’s songs and was a part-time actor, died today in New York. He was 67.
The group and his family announced his death in a statement on Facebook: “Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia. … Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community & millions of fans worldwide.”
Commonly known as the Eagles but with no “the” on album covers, the group started out as Linda Ronstadt’s backup band in early-1970s Los Angeles and would become one of the world’s biggest acts. Frey wrote or co-wrote many of the group’s best-known songs including “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” “Already Gone,” “Take It Easy,...
The group and his family announced his death in a statement on Facebook: “Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia. … Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community & millions of fans worldwide.”
Commonly known as the Eagles but with no “the” on album covers, the group started out as Linda Ronstadt’s backup band in early-1970s Los Angeles and would become one of the world’s biggest acts. Frey wrote or co-wrote many of the group’s best-known songs including “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” “Already Gone,” “Take It Easy,...
- 1/18/2016
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors during the ceremony's tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote one of Franklin's signature songs, "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman." Franklin performed that 1967 single at the Kennedy Center Honors, which aired Tuesday night following its December 6th ceremony in Washington D.C., making a rare appearance at the piano to deliver a rendition that moved many – including President Barack Obama – to tears.
Franklin, herself a 1994 Kennedy Center honoree, wrapped up an all-star tribute that featured songs penned both by King...
Franklin, herself a 1994 Kennedy Center honoree, wrapped up an all-star tribute that featured songs penned both by King...
- 12/30/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this month, in a star-studded celebration on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage, Seiji Ozawa, Tony Award winner Rita Moreno West Side Story,Carole King, George Lucas, and Tony Award winner Cicely Tyson The Gin Game, The Trip To Bountiful were saluted by great performers from Hollywood and the arts capitals of the world on The 38Th Annual Kennedy Center Honors. Jane The Virgin's Gina Rodriguez launched the event which aired tonight with a tribute to Rita Moreno. Watch her emotional speech below...
- 12/30/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Singer-songwriter Carole King, filmmaker George Lucas, actress and singer Rita Moreno, conductor Seiji Ozawa and actress and Broadway star Cicely Tyson are the honorees recognized for their contributions to the arts in The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors two-hour special on CBS Tuesday, Dec. 29, at 9pm Et/Pt. President and Mrs. Obama are among the guests attending the ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Photo: Credit: John P. Filo/CBS ©2015 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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The post 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors special on CBS Tuesday appeared first on Channel Guide Magazine.
- 12/29/2015
- by Ryan Berenz
- ChannelGuideMag
Yesterday, in a star-studded celebration on the Kennedy Center Opera House stage, Seiji Ozawa, Tony Award winner Rita Moreno West Side Story ,Carole King, George Lucas and Tony Award winner Cicely Tyson The Gin Game, The Trip To Bountiful were saluted by great performers from Hollywood and the arts capitals of the world on The 38Th Annual Kennedy Center Honors.
- 12/7/2015
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
In the wake of the terrible attacks in Paris, I found myself listening to a lot of French music and thinking about the Leonard Bernstein quote going around on Facebook: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." This list came to seem like my natural response. A very small response, I know. This list is chronological and leaves off people I should probably include. The forty [note: now forty-one] composers listed below are merely a start.
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
- 11/15/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
The Kennedy Center HONORSrecently announced their honorees for 2015 will be singer-songwriter Carole King, filmmaker George Lucas, actress and singer Rita Moreno, conductor Seiji Ozawa and actress and Broadway star Cicely Tyson. They will be recognized during The 38Th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, to be broadcast Tuesday, Dec. 29 900-1100 Pm, Etpt on the CBS Television Network. CBS has broadcast the special each year since its debut 38 years ago.
- 11/6/2015
- by TV News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
There will be a new group of honorees as this year's Kennedy Center Honors Event! The Kennedy Center Honors announced that the 2015 event will pay tribute to George Lucas, American rock band Eagles, Carole King, Rita Moreno, conductor Seiji Ozawa and Broadway star Cicely Tyson. This marks a big occasion for Moreno, who is one of 12 artists to earn the highly coveted Egot (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony). "The Kennedy Center Honors recognizes the extraordinary and unparalleled talents of individuals whose impact and genius have left an indelible mark on civilization," stated Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein in a statement. "Quite simply, our Honorees represent the voices,...
- 7/15/2015
- E! Online
The zombie apocalypse might not begin until the end of Fear the Walking Dead‘s first season — but you can catch an early glimpse of it in the show’s official art.
VideosFear the Walking Dead Trailer Is Finally Here!
AMC on Wednesday released the poster for its upcoming Walking Dead spinoff, which depicts a walker threatening to ruin a nice game of basketball. (But at least the sunset is pretty!)
Fear the Walking Dead premieres Sunday, Aug. 23, at 9/8c. In the meantime, scroll down to see the series’ ominous artwork.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…...
VideosFear the Walking Dead Trailer Is Finally Here!
AMC on Wednesday released the poster for its upcoming Walking Dead spinoff, which depicts a walker threatening to ruin a nice game of basketball. (But at least the sunset is pretty!)
Fear the Walking Dead premieres Sunday, Aug. 23, at 9/8c. In the meantime, scroll down to see the series’ ominous artwork.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…...
- 7/15/2015
- TVLine.com
The 2015 Kennedy Center Honors will be presented to six artists instead of the traditional five. Those announced on Thursday for the national celebration of the arts are rock band the Eagles, singer-songwriter Carole King, director and producer George Lucas, actress and singer Rita Moreno, conductor Seiji Ozawa, and actress Cicely Tyson. -Break- Editors Emmy slugfest: Which shows will get last two Drama Series slots? (Video) Normally announced after Labor Day, the press release on Thursday was a summer surprise six weeks early. The artists are the first to be honored by new production team, Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, who annually produce the Tony Awards for White Cherry Entertainment. Veteran producer George Stevens, Jr., a founder of the annual event since it started in 1978, and his son Michael were not retained after last December's ceremony. In discussing this year's selections, Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein say...
- 7/15/2015
- Gold Derby
The event, a fundraiser for the Washington, D.C. arts center that brought in $6 million last year, set for December 6. CBS will again broadcast, on December 29.Star Wars patriarch George Lucas, actresses Cicely Tyson and Rita Moreno, songwriter Carole King, conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Eagles will be saluted at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors. It is the event’s 38th year but the first to be produced by Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss at White Cherry Entertainment. George…...
- 7/15/2015
- Deadline TV
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas, actress and singer Rita Moreno, and rock band The Eagles will all receive the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced Wednesday. In addition, singer-songwriter Carole King, conductor Seiji Ozawa, and actress and Broadway star Cicely Tyson will also receive the prestigious award. The Honors recipients, recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts, are selected by the executive committee of the Center’s board of trustees. See video: George Lucas Says Space Travel Is 'Our Only Chance of Survival' in Science Channel Special (Exclusive...
- 7/15/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Controversial composer Alfred Schnittke was born November 24, 1934 in the Soviet Union's Volga Republic, an ethnic German enclave. In his mid-thirties he pioneered a broadly eclectic style of composing that drew on many classical styles (even sometimes quoting familiar Beethoven or Bach works, among others) as well as the occasional foray into jazz and pop. By 1972 his experimentalism had earned the disapproval of the Soviet Composers Union (the Soviets also weren't enamored of his occasional expressions of religion, for that matter), but a number of esteemed musicians who had left Russia to live in the West supported his work and brought him an international reputation. His work was basically pessimistic in outlook, but its emotional impact, and the accessibility of some of the styles he drew on, nonetheless seduced many listeners.
The contradictions in Schnittke's style are laid out in his liner notes to the Bis recording of his Symphony No.
The contradictions in Schnittke's style are laid out in his liner notes to the Bis recording of his Symphony No.
- 11/24/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Tokyo, Feb 20 (Ians/Efe) Orchestra conductor Seiji Ozawa, who cancelled his appearances almost a year ago because of his poor state of health, will return to the podium in August at a festival in the central Japanese city of Matsumoto, Nhk television reported.
Ozawa will direct the opera "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" by French composer Maurice Ravel as a featured part of the event, organizers of the Saito Kinen Classical Music Festival told Nhk.
The 77-year-old Ozawa will direct the Saito Kinen Orchestra Aug 23, 25, 28 and 31 at the Matsumoto Center for Stage Arts in Nagano prefecture.
Ozawa, one of the world's most renowned.
Ozawa will direct the opera "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" by French composer Maurice Ravel as a featured part of the event, organizers of the Saito Kinen Classical Music Festival told Nhk.
The 77-year-old Ozawa will direct the Saito Kinen Orchestra Aug 23, 25, 28 and 31 at the Matsumoto Center for Stage Arts in Nagano prefecture.
Ozawa, one of the world's most renowned.
- 2/20/2013
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
Judi Dench will receive the Japanese Art Association's Praemium Imperiale in recognition of her contribution to acting. Dench was announced as one of five Praemium Imperiale Laureates alongside British sculptor Anish Kapoor, artist Bill Viola, Japanese composer Seiji Ozawa and architect Ricardo Legoretta during a ceremony held in London this week. The laureates also attended a special reception thrown by Queen Elizabeth II in their honor at Buckingham Palace. Dench commented that she took great pride in receiving the Praemium Imperiale, saying: "I feel overwhelmed. I've been to Japan twice with the RSC [Royal Shakespeare Company] and I made a lot of really good friends." The actress (more)...
- 7/13/2011
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
LONDON -- Universal Music Group International on Monday named Bogdan Roscic, currently vp A&R at Deutsche Grammophon, as managing director of its classical music division, the Decca Music Group. Roscic succeeds Costa Pilivachi, who has run the division for 17 years, working with such artists as Cecilia Bartoli, Andrea Bocelli, Valery Gergiev, Seiji Ozawa, Mitsuko Uchida and Hayler Westenra. Making the announcement, UMGI president classics and jazz Christopher Roberts said the company has asked Pilivachi to stay on in a new role and discussions on terms are taking place.
- 2/21/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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