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WOMEN IN THE ARTS...WOMEN IN MUSIC...WORLD NEWS/INTERNATIONAL.
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WOMEN IN THE ARTS...WOMEN IN MUSIC...WORLD NEWS/INTERNATIONAL.
WOMEN IN THE ARTS
2.WOMEN
IN THE ARTS.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
Judy
Hintz Cox:
America’s first lady of progressive minimalism.
Cox’s
paintings are elegantly and intelligently composed, structured and balanced,
yet, she is not restrained by an artistic dogmatic analysis.
1.
Renate Aller: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE
LAFAYETTE. She
photographs femme fatales, elegant women, the clouds, inexistent people who
make you think, and the infinity of nothingness. You see it in her shots of
lyrical and nostalgic skies, horizons, clouds, seascapes and ultra modern
installations.
t9.WOMEN GENIUSES OF
DANCE AND BALLET.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The Magical and Surreal World of Theatrical Dance and Ballet...The religions
of ancient Greece and Rome are extinct now, but the gods and goddesses of
Olympus are still vibrant in our dreams and fragile hopes. The sublime deities
came to life through poetry, music and dance. They belonged to literature,
fantasy, art and dance. In the firmament of human imagination, they defined
their divine circle, and continued to hold it within the winds...
t18.WOMEN
ARTISTS OF THE WORLD.t1
ALISON LAPPER.
My Body Is Art! It's been empty
for 150 years. But this week it was announced that the vacant fourth plinth in
Trafalgar Square will be occupied by a 15ft-high nude statue of a pregnant
Alison Lapper. She talks to Hadley Freeman about art, disability and notions
of beauty.
t
2MARIA
CHEVSKA. Can't Wait (Letters
R.L.), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, United Kingdom. Awaiting the visitor to
her first solo show in London for almost three years are two significant
developments in Maria Chevska's work. The first is the introduction of objects
into the gallery space, objects that the viewer has to negotiate and which act
as both an aid and a restriction to reading her paintings...
22.THE
VERY BEST OF NEW YORK:
ENTERTAINERS, SINGERS, ARTISTS, ART EVENTS, SHOWS.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The Winners, the Losers, the Turkeys!!
SOCIETY AND LIFESTYLE: BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
Hottest and Most Talented Women of the Year.
We will always talk about the famous and the rich. Wealth and money are status
symbol. When you have money, people think that you know. When you lose your
assets, social power and position, you become yesterday’s news. You might get
lucky and be remembered here and there, but you are no more a headliner. You
become like Australia. Everybody talks about Australia but nobody wants to
visit Australia.
MODERN
ART IN IRAQ: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. LEADING FIGURES AND
INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITIES:
No country will ever survive if its art dies. it
the proper time to talk about Iraqi modern art amidst the turbulent Iraq
passage toward new political and social metamorphoses? Absolutely, for
nations were initially born through the original expressions of individual and
shared feelings, ideas, concepts and ideologies transmitted and illustrated
through the medium of art. Equally true is the survival of nations and the
preservation of their heritage, history and national pride through art in all
its forms and styles.
17.
PORTRAIT OF A NEW YORK FEMALE ARTIST:
RACHEL BERTONI. BY MAXIMILLIEN
DE LAFAYETTE.
WOMEN IN MUSIC
1.
It
seems
everybody wants to be a jazz singer nowadays. People of all ages turn up at
'open mic' sessions to perform their party piece. But why this sudden eruption
of would-be vocalists? Maybe because singing looks easier than playing an
instrument, although it isn't. Or maybe it's because there are so many good
jazz singers in Britain to inspire them. There's Stacey Kent, Tina May, Claire
Martin, Clare Teal, Barb Jungr, Anita Wardell, Sheena Davis...
170-200.
WORLD OF CABARET: AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE BIRTH OF
CABARET
FROM
THE EARLY JAZZ ERA TO PRESENT.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
Artists,
performers, entertainers, musicians, composers and singers of yesteryears and
at the dawn of American music were so different from those who came to the
scene of the modern American music of the 20th and 21st
centuries. The music was real musical composition, no Rap crap and heavy metal
distorting noises. The lyrics were simple, evocative, poetic and polite and
consequently, songs could be sung by all generations and audiences of all
ages. The musical productions were either super extravaganzas or daringly
intimate and sentimental.
t11.UNDISCOVERED
GREAT TALENTS: DIVAS IN THE MAKING.
It is not an easy task to write about
Sophia Dalle, nor to engage into a dialogue with this macabre and translucent
Diva in the making. She lives in a world we are familiar with, and in a cosmos
where only most daring thoughts, phantasmagoric visions and idealism blend and
fade in. She is idealistic, a spiritual chic and abundant with
multidimensional musical talent. She interrupts you all the time, she rushes
to freeze and free words of wisdom, you wish you could totally understand, and
she challenges your intellect, even though, she disdains ivy league cum laude
graduates who analyze everything in life.
270.WORLD
CABARET: BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. NEW YORK
CITY- Her October cabaret show at Joe's Pub in New York City was a smashing
success. Barb Jungr took New York and the audience by storm. Listening to her
albums is a delight. But, seeing her performing on stage is the ultimate
musical treat and an experience at many levels, not to miss. From her very
first song to Waterloo Sunset, her international hit, Barb Jungr shined
brighter than midnight sunset, enrobed with a femme fatale aura, a sensual
intellectualism and the implosion of a dignified femme fatale. Her show was a
sort of a tribute to Bob Dylan. She sang his biggest hits, her style and her
way and she excelled. But, when she delivered Jacques Brel's "Ay Marieke,
Marieke", the audience went wild. She mesmerized the hell out of them.
t16.DIVAS.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. The
New Wave of Divas and Femmes Fatales: Barb Jungr, Alison England, Jennifer
Terran, Sophia Dalle, Cheryl Bliss...
t1.Lyne
Tremblay BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE . She is de facto, Canada's most
sophisticated, elegant and captivating cabaret Diva and "Femme Fatale".
Her voice is an explosion and implosion
of warmth, vocal virtuosity, seduction, truthful inner feelings and a magical
"Un Je Ne Sais Quoi?". You look at Lyne and the scent of a Parisian Diva of La
Belle Epoque or "Les Annees Folles" breath over you. You look at Lyne
Tremblay, and Montmartre, Les Grands Boulevards, the dialogues of Jean...
t2.CABARET:
STARS AND LEGENDS. BY MAXIMILLIEN
DE LAFAYETTE. Wesla
Whitfield made her own rules and enlarged the perimeter of
performance excellence by sculpting an almost perfect sense of phrasing
which magically and very tenderly
reached the hearts and souls of multi-varied and demanding audiences. She
brought to the traditional world of cabaret music, a very intimate, warm,
pensive and personal musical and vocal interpretation which defied
conventionalism. This delightful defying and charmingly innovative creativity
is...
t34..SUPERSTARS
AND LEGENDS: MAXIMILLIEN INTERVIEWS THE DIVAS.
tGLORIA
LORING. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE
LAFAYETTE. She did it all with class, beauty, intelligence, style,
talent, unique creativity, guts and warmth. And she excelled in everything
she accomplished. Grande Dame Loring is a published author, a national
speaker, a world-class actress, an international celebrity, a star of the
American cinema and television, a leading figure of the American theater and
concert halls, a singer, a composer, a lyricist, a songwriter, a producer, a
certified yoga teacher, a member of Who's Who in America and The World Who's
Who of Women...
t2.RAQUEL
BITTON.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. She
is Edith Piaf’s soul, tears and joy, but she remains herself “The Grande Dame
Raquel Bitton” with pure individuality, distinctive style and her own Jewish
persona. Raquel Bitton is the foremost and single most important international
singer responsible for reviving the repertoire of the legendary Edith Piaf
worldwide. Raquel Bitton made her mark on the French world of music. Her
previous engagements, appearances and credits include music documentaries and
singing for PBS, National Public Radio, recitals at “Carnegie Hall” in New
York...
22.THE
VERY BEST OF NEW YORK:
ENTERTAINERS, SINGERS, ARTISTS, ART EVENTS, SHOWS.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE
THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The Winners, the Losers, the Turkeys!!
SOCIETY AND LIFESTYLE: Hottest
and Most Talented Women of the Year.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. We will always talk about the famous and
the rich. Wealth and money are status symbol. When you have money, people
think that you know. When you lose your assets, social power and position, you
become yesterday’s news. You might get lucky and be remembered here and there,
but you are no more a headliner. You become like Australia. Everybody talks
about Australia but nobody wants to visit Australia.
11.
THE WORLD OF CINEMA: JESSICA BURNSTEIN
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The multifaceted talents of
Jessica Burstein: Film maker, director, editor, producer, screenplay and movie
star! Jessica Burstein is the
living example of the modern, ambitious, creative and fascinating American
woman of our time. She is the newest promising and bursting film maker of the
year. She had the talent, the vision and the guts. She had to prove it to her
peers and to cinema goers on a large scale. One way to do it: Make the movie,
write the script, direct the picture and star in it. And she did! Jessica had
no hesitation about her talent and abilities to make a movie...
1.
DIVAS AND SUPERSTARS:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
MEET THE NEWEST WORLD OPERA SUPER
SENSATION: DIVA ALISON ENGLAND. She is
larger than life. And her voice is an explosion and implosion of mesmerizing
vocal virtuosity and joyful drama. A living legend with a big heart and
immense talent. Meet the American princess of world opera who conquered
Paris...
66.
GRANDE DAMES AND DIVAS: BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
AMANDA McBROOM: THE ROSE OF ALL ROSES.
Amanda McBroom has been
called “…the greatest cabaret performer of her generation, an urban poet who
writes like an angel and has a voice to match.” And WACJ calls her “The
Immortal Living Legend And The Greatest Songwriter/Singer Of All Time”. Today,
Amanda McBroom is the greatest songwriter/singer/entertainer in America.
79-80.
WORLD-CLASS TALENTS:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
SOFIA LAITI.
ysterious American chanteuse Sofia Laiti is making
a big buzz with her recently released CD YOU DON'T KNOW ME, her debut
recording of European and American cabaret repertoire. I just said Cabaret
Debut, not a singer career debut, because she has already 3 CDs to her
credit. She has been classically trained, but for some reasons, she decided
to become a jazz singer. A short biography by Alex Henserson in All Music
Guide sheds a light on the background of this singer...
150.THE
ESSENTIALS: THE BEST CABARET MUSIC AND SONGS CDs:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The ESSENTIALS are those CDs or recordings which
are looked upon as major, important and most significant for the genre per se.
Cabaret is my forte. Cabaret music is my favorite topic. And I will writing
about it, and about the best cabaret CDs of recent years; CDs of American
Cabaret singers and songwriters. Unquestionably, the greatest non Parisian,
non ethnically French Cabaret singer in the world and outside France is
RAQUEL BITTON who currently lives in California...
152.POP
NEW RELEASES & REVIEWS:
Bjork has said she finds her best, most loved music has been the songs she was
selfish in making. On her latest, the Icelandic chanteuse has cast out even
the instruments. Bjork's seventh album, Medulla, which refers to the spinal
cord in Latin, gets to the heart of the marrow, so to speak...IBob Marley is
reggae's king, Jimmy Cliff is its prince. The veteran Jamaican singer has the
royal lineage. He started his career in the early '60s ska scene in Kingston
while still a teenager and has grown along with the music through its many
permutations...And much more...
155. CABARET: MEET THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN'S CABARET. BARB JUNGR. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE
Diva Barb Jungr is a living
legend. She is larger than life on stage. She is witty, captivating, warm and
boiling with musical lava and unsurpassed vocal virtuosity. An English woman
who sings like real, real, real Parisian cabaret singers? Like Piaf, for
instance? Not really. Perhaps much better, because he is happier than those
stuffy melodramatic French singers who complicate your life. French cabaret is
intense because it is drama. Jungr's cabaret is happy, vivacious, filled with
joy and hope. They compared her to Ute Lemper, Juliette Greco and Edith Piaf.
.
2.WHO’S
WHO OF THE BEST AMERICAN FEMALE SINGERS-ENTERTAINERS: T
3.AMERICAN LEGENDS:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
GRANDE DAME
PAULETTE ATTIE:
LA CRÈME DE LA CRÈME. SHOWBIZ STAR OF THE YEAR, by MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE.
To call Ms. Attie "Divine" or "Sensational" is a childish approach to
understand, feel, sense, explore and admire the beautifully intelligent and
warmly captivating multidimensional art and multifaceted universe of her
creativity. P.20-
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5.THE
WORLD MOST FAMOUS AMERICAN FEMALE SINGERS
AND NON-AMERICAN FEMALE SINGERS WHO SING IN ENGLISH.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
THE WORLD 50 FAVORITE FEMALE SINGERS AND
ENTERTAINERS IN ALL LANGUAGES.
P.177 -182
JAZZ CORNER:
It seems everybody wants to be a jazz singer
nowadays. People of all ages turn up at 'open mic' sessions to perform their
party piece. But why this sudden eruption of would-be vocalists? Maybe because
singing looks easier than playing an instrument, although it isn't. Or maybe
it's because there are so many good jazz singers in Britain to inspire them.
There's Stacey Kent, Tina May, Claire Martin, Clare Teal, Barb Jungr, Anita
Wardell, Sheena Davis, Cathie Rae and plenty more. Until recently, the guys
had fewer role-models, but then along came Jamie Cullum whose career received
a mighty boost when he was signed by Universal.
P.306 -
310
BEST POP,
JAZZ,VARIETE CABARET MUSIC CDs OF THE YEAR.
Ute Lemper, Cindy Benson, Anna Bergman, Barb Jungr, Rebecca Spencer,
Sofia Laiti, etc...
INTERNATIONAL STAR OF THE YEAR:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
LAUREN FIELD
HAS BEEN HONORED AS INTERNATIONAL STAR OF THE YEAR.
Once a year, World Art Celebrities Journal
elects "The International Woman of the Year" in Humanities/Social Affairs and
The "International Woman of the Year" in Music and Entertainment. The
election is basically and primarily based upon the journal's Editorial Board
nomination and selection, the Committee of Arts and Entertainment Critics
recommendation and the vote of our readers worldwide, via international
survey/poll conducted in 135 countries, where WACJ is read. Grande Dame of the
American media, Dr. Monica Crowley, former international affairs and political
relations to President Nixon and host of the nationally acclaimed New York's
"Monica Crowley Show" has been elected International Woman of the Year. While,
United Kingdom's newest music and entertainment sensation Lauren Field, a
world-class singer-songwriter, a superb performer/entertainer and producer has
been elected as the International Star of the Year. Maximillien de Lafayette
explores the multidimensional world of Diva Field and bring to us an
exclusive interview with this magnificent artist heading toward world stardom.