Klauspeter Seibel, the first music director of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (1995-2004) died Saturday of multiple myeloma in Hamburg, Germany. He was 74. He loved New Orleans and celebrated a wedding anniversary at the Ursuline Convent, just blocks from his home on Ursulines Street. His “Beethoven and Blue Jeans” series were memorable, not only to [...]
Go see Bizet’s “other opera” just to hear the duet “Au fond du temple saint.” Two men (a tenor and a baritone) renew their friendship, even though they have both fallen in love with the same woman. This duet is perhaps one of the most famous in all of opera. The opera was first performed [...]
Saturday, July 17, the Press Club of New Orleans honored excellence in journalism in the Crescent City. In a ceremony at the Harrah’s Hotel, OffBeat was recognized in several categories. Art director Elsa Hahne was honored with the Hal Ledet Award for Print Photography. In addition, Hahne received first place for her feature photo of [...]
We mail the magazine to ourselves to monitor how long the mail takes to be delivered. The Jazz Fest Bible was placed in the mail to all of our subscribers on Friday, April 16. We received our copy today, Tuesday, April 20. If you’re a subscriber your magazine should have already arrived or will arrive [...]
Singer songwriter Jamie Bernstein has been around the music scene in New Orleans for several years working with the Crescent City All-Stars and fronting his own band J. the Savage. He was born in West Virginia, went to school in Florida and has been in New Orleans since. Songs from the Tree of Life, his [...]
From Bergen, Norway, (now living in Brooklyn) Sondre Lerche was signed to Virgin/ EMI before his 16th birthday. His latest release Heartbeat Radio on Rounder Records follows his critically acclaimed soundtrack to the movie Dan in Real Life. His music is upbeat pop with elements of Brazilian, jazz and folk. Lerche’s distinctive voice and talent [...]
Charles Moore, the brother of Deacon John and Sybil Kein, plays guitar with both siblings and has appeared with Kein on her CDs exploring traditional Creole and European folk songs. Here Moore puts together a program of classical guitar music which, it turns out, is his real love. It’s an interesting program, mostly of shorter [...]
Ian McNulty’s eye for detail makes A Season of Night important. He recorded the little things that we all experienced but never thought they were more than trivialities. We all felt and talked about the darkness and the quiet in our neighborhoods and the joy we felt when experiencing everyday normal activities. I remember delivering [...]
What do Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff and Tom McDermott all have in common? They composed short pieces (preludes) of music in all 24 major and minor keys. Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” influenced almost all composers. Chopin’s set of 24 preludes, Op. 28, liberated the prelude from its original introductory purpose and allowed it to serve [...]
Dean Lutz, the creator of the New Orleans band Patient Zero, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on June 10 in San Francisco, he was 34. A year after the catastrophic losses brought on by the Federal levee failure, Lutz relocated to Oregon. He often performed with Patient Zero as well with other bands at Checkpoint [...]
