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Bill Kopp on December 11, 2019
Pop stars and genres of popular music come and go. But a select few performers manage to endure floating above the rapidly flowing stream contemporary culture. Johnny Mathis has stayed aloft for more than 60 years now.
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to talk to someone you don’t even know for a moment of fun and to let someone grow we met in a space where they stop on a dime she gave me a nickel and a moment of her time she worked for some Joe’s trading posts for food yes, I’ve a…
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
To those who grew up in the know, the so-called “Secret Sidewalk,” running through Niles Canyon in Fremont, was a place to go get weird. Formerly the Spring Valley Aqueduct, this graffiti-covered, rectangular channel once carried water, but eventually became a place for daytrippers to, um… trip. It’s unclear if musicians Alex…
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
With her band Le Bonheur, Storm Large performs holiday shows that are both naughty and nice. The early show, “American Songbook,” is intended for the general public; the late show, “Unbuttoned,” is for adults only. Fans of Pink Martini have likely seen Storm singing with that band; her solo shows cover the…
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This year’s Not So Silent Night—Alt 105.3’s long-running winter music festival—is headlined by two of alternative rock’s most reliable draws: Mumford & Sons and Twenty-One Pilots. Direct support comes in the form of Jack White’s other band, The Raconteurs, along with The 1975 and Mumford’s female-fronted mirror image, Of Monsters & Men.…
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
The Community School of Music and Arts hosts “An Evening with John Daversa.” The Grammy-winning composer and jazz trumpeter has worked with Fiona Apple, Burt Bacharach, Joe Cocker and Herbie Hancock, among other well-known musical artists. He regularly performs with his groups—the Progressive Big Band and the Small Band—and as a conductor…
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
For more than three decades the Italian American Heritage Foundation of San Jose has thrown this annual party to expose local audiences to classical Italian opera. This collaboration between Opera San Jose and the IAHFSJ opens with a cocktail hour, followed by dinner catered by Elegant Events SJ and a program of…
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Metro Staff on December 4, 2019
Baritone Russell Braun and pianist Serouj Kradjian perform a “dramatic recital” about the life of Hanns Eisler, who fled Nazi Germany to score films in Hollywood, winning Oscar nominations before being blacklisted and deported for his communist beliefs. Braun portrays Eisler while performing the composer’s Hollywood Songbook, which the baritone describes as…
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Mike Huguenor on December 4, 2019
From the 17th floor of the KQED building downtown, San Jose is an impressive sight. The city of more than a million sprawls, unfurling against mountain ranges to the east and south and against an equally sublime range of suburbs to the north.
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I was out for my Saturday morning run when I came to a big intersection on Meridian and stopped to wait for the light. Then I felt strange, short of breath, heart pumping. Next thing I knew you were honking at me because I had run into the street with cars going…
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