What was that weird instrument?
In case you were wondering what that odd instrument was in the trombone-tuba section of the Cincinnati Symphony at the May Festival — principal tuba Carson McTeer tells me it was a cimbasso — a “Verdi tuba.” Or perhaps more accurately, a Verdi trombone....
Posted: 5/22/2013 9:38 AM in Arts in Focus
An evening with Colleen Sharp Murray
Singer Colleen Sharp Murray talks about her days on the Paul Dixon, Ruth Lyons and Bob Braun shows on WLWT-TV (Channel 5) – and she might even tell a few David Letterman stories – at 7:30 p.m. June 5 the Anderson Township Historical Society meeting ....
Posted: 5/22/2013 9:20 AM in TV and Media Blog
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY & DAVID WINGO
Hailed by everyone from The New Yorker and Rolling Stone to Judd Apatow to their hundreds of thousands of fans for the cinematic scale and sweep of its instrumental epics, Explosions In The Sky & David Wingo release their original score to the feature...
Posted: 5/21/2013 8:15 PM in Ventvox
New: Daughn Gibson:: You Don’t Fade
The new Daughn Gibson tune 'You Don't Fade' starts out interesting but then it quickly becomes a mess. There's too much going on within this track for me to discern the point and maybe there's not a point and that's what I'm missing. I'm all for experimentation...
Posted: 5/21/2013 8:09 PM in Ventvox
TV news specials from Oklahoma tonight
CBS will air a 90-minute “CBS Evening News” 6:30-8 p.m. today, with Scott Pelley anchoring tornado aftermath coverage from Moore, Okla. WKRC-TV (Channel 12) will pre-empt “Inside Edition” and “Entertainment Tonight” to carry the full show. NBC’s Brian...
Posted: 5/21/2013 3:01 PM in TV and Media Blog
New Food Truck: The Urban Grill
There’s another new food truck on the streets. This spiffy truck wrapped up in photos of Cincinnati sights is The Urban Grill, motto: “Bacon Built This City.” It’s owned by Betsy Eicher and her brother-in-law Randy Reichelderfer. They’ll have grilled...
Posted: 5/21/2013 2:44 PM in Campbellās Scoop
The real story behind ‘The Real Greg Brady’
Former WEBN-FM DJ Jay Gilbert sent me an email after seeing Barry Williams rapping “The Real Greg Brady” at Kings Island Sunday at the “Brady Bunch” reunion. He says the parody of Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady” was born here at WEBN-FM. His email: “Barry...
Posted: 5/21/2013 2:29 PM in TV and Media Blog