Maria Goodavage
Maria Goodavage is a journalist, news editor for Dogster.com, and the author of the upcoming book, Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America’s Canine Heroes (March 15, Dutton Penguin).
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Zoë Keating’s website calls her a “one-woman orchestra.” Yet in her performances with the ODC Dance Company, in Brenda Way’s Breathing Underwater, she’ll be playing three of her pieces with the multiple musicians of the Magik*Magik Orchestra. Way takes three of Keating’s pieces and weaves them into a portrayal of women’s experience in the world.
Little Red, a pit bull with a tender soul, spent the majority of her first five years chained to a car axle that was planted in the ground at Michael Vick’s notorious Bad Newz kennels. Her only respite from the elements was when she had puppies, or when someone needed a bait dog to test the violent propensities of other pit bulls.
Seeing Ourselves in Wagner’s Ring
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May 9, 2011
San Francisco–based musician Pamela Z has been getting rave reviews for her musical wizardry for decades. The Washington Post calls her a “relentlessly inventive singer and sound artist.” And The San Diego Union-Tribune notes that she is “equally comfortable creating a brave new aural world, singing Puccini or reinventing ‘Wild Thing’ in ways The Troggs never dreamed of. ...
It’s summer. You’re given a date for a really cool eight-hour marathon concert you’re helping organize the following year: Feb. 6, 2011. Looks as good as any other weekend, and besides, the venue locked it in almost immediately. So sure, why not? Feb. 6 it is.
Classical guitarist Sharon Isbin won a 2010 Grammy Award for “Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)” for her CD Journey to the New World. She is the first guitarist in 43 years to receive two classical Grammies (she won the first in 2000). Isbin, who studied with Andrés Segovia and other classical guitar legends, directs the guitar departments at the Juilliard School and the Aspen Music Festival.
In 1995, Zoe Keating quit her day job so she could practice her cello for six solid months for her audition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She loved playing in orchestras, and thought that a master’s degree would get her a step closer to a coveted seat in a cello section.
