April 12, 2019 - 6:02 am in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Food for thought @en, Home @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Music @en, Travel @en, Window of the soul @enJoseph Tawadros. Breaking Boundaries With the Oud
The flamboyant Joseph Tawadros is a multi-instrumentalist, best known for playing the oud. Massimo Gava meets the virtuoso and discovers more about his instrument of choice. Joseph Tawadros…
June 23, 2018 - 12:28 am in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Featured @en, Film @en, Mark Beech, Music @en, Uncategorized @enFictional Violence = Real Life Crime. Really?
Mark Beech argues against the case for unnecessary media censorship which spoils the enjoyment of millions, in response to the actions of a very few crazed criminals who may not be influenced…
June 11, 2018 - 11:18 pm in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Film @en, Mark Beech, Music @en, Uncategorized @enSoundtracking Africa and the world: Film composer Didier Recloux
By Mark Beech Didier Recloux is a name you may not be familiar with yet, but he is worth watching. The composer for film and TV wrote the music for the 2017 ground-breaking series History of Africa…
May 4, 2018 - 10:27 am in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Film @en, Home @en, interview, massimo gava, Music @en, Style @en, Uncategorized @enRiver of words for a Eurovision tale.
Massimo Gava meets Eurovision and San Remo legends Jalisse for an exclusive interview – and was the first to hear rehearsals for the new soundtrack featured in the movie Niente di serio (Nothing…
ABBA: From Arrival to Revival – Cashtills Ring Out Again
A Reflection by Mark Beech Mamma Mia! Here we go again.. my my.. It could be all Money, Money, Money as ABBA returns. I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have…
March 9, 2018 - 9:11 am in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Divine Comedy @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Music @en, Politics @en, Window of the soul @enItalian Politicians should not forget the roots in their boot.
Together with the prince of Allegria, Roberto Benigni, we remind the Italian politicians about to form a new governement the true meaning of their national anthem. Massimo Gava writes. In the…
San Remo Music Festival
This is the week that sees the start of the Sanremo Music Festival, the popular Italian song contest, held annually in the city of Sanremo,Italy,where previously unreleased songs battle it…
Malambo, the Dance of Life
Conquering the Old Continent, one dance step at a time Cristina Colombera reports. It is hard – if not impossible – to passively sit still during a performance of Malambo. As…
Luis Fonsi Speaks to DANTE: How Despacito Has Conquered the World
The Luis Fonsi song is ubiquitous. Susanne Ramírez de Arellano speaks to the star and delves a little deeper into the story behind it. Luis Fonsi is just about the biggest star in the rock firmament…
June 28, 2017 - 10:57 pm in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Literature @en, Mark Beech, Music @enWhen Led Zep Met the Damned: Punk’s Roxy Celebrated After 40 Years
In 100 days, London’s Roxy became the most influential punk club in the world. It is being celebrated with a new book, blue plaque and an exhibition. Mark Beech meets the Roxy’s founders.…
June 23, 2017 - 3:00 pm in Art @en, Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Mark Beech, Music @en, Uncategorized @enStar Images of Ibiza Rocks: Jérôme Ferrière’s Outstanding Photos
Interview by Mark Beech “I grew up with a rock & roll heart and I have never lost it.” The words of French photographer Jérôme Ferrière sum it all up. “More than a music or an attitude,…
May 29, 2017 - 11:34 pm in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Film @en, Mark Beech, Music @enI Saw a Film Today, Oh Boy… Alan G. Parker’s Beatles Movie in Review
The movie title is not exactly catchy. It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond. But, then again, the original LP it documents, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,…
May 27, 2017 - 2:31 pm in Business, Business @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Mark Beech, Music @en, Uncategorized @enIs Money Killing Music? What the Royalty Battle Means
Stars as varied as Jean-Michel Jarre, Blondie and Nikki Sixx are lining up to warn about the state of the future of music. Internet streaming and royalty rates are cutting the heart out of the…
Band to Watch: Glam Skanks Blasts Out Glam Rock on Adam Ant Tour
Interview by Mark Beech Watch out U.K., the Glam Skanks have invaded. Just when you thought it was safe to go to the respectable Royal Albert Hall, these glitter queens will be tearing up the…
It all began with an Amen! Gabbani’s Eurovision Hit Karma Song
By Massimo Gava Normally, with an “Amen,” we end something. Whether that be a sentence or a liturgical event. But for Francesco Gabbani, the underdog of Italian music, it has been the start…
May 4, 2017 - 11:20 am in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Home @en, Music @en, Uncategorized @enA Flight of Imagination: Leee John’s Long-Term Plan
DANTE’s Massimo Gava interviews Imagination star Leee John, goes to his Paris and London shows and reflects on how the man behind Body Talk and Just an Illusion has built a more lasting appeal.…
February 28, 2017 - 6:41 pm in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Home @en, Music @en, Uncategorized @enMulti-million metal movie: ‘We Are X’ captures pain, fame of Japan’s biggest rock band
“We are X,” they say. They are not talking about any Xs of “X Factor”, or British band the XX- but the most the most successful Japanese rock band in history. By Massimo Gava …
Musical Gold at 50: DANTE Recommends Fairport Convention
By Mark Beech The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention. For those of you who are saying, “Fairport who?”, well, now is the time to find out.…
The Man Who Inspired Kate Bush and David Bowie: Dancer Lindsay Kemp Profiled
Kate Bush dedicated a song to him and David Bowie worked with him for years - Lindsay Kemp is a legendary figure in the world of dance. Mark Beech reports on a new book and show that captures…
October 1, 2016 - 7:39 pm in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Home @en, Mark Beech, Music @en, Uncategorized @enAndrea Bocelli – “If God Could Sing…”
AS ANDREA BOCELLI PERFORMS IN LONDON, HERE IS A WEB VERSION OF OUR PRINT ARTICLE FROM A NEW MONTHS BACK.. The internationally successful star tenor is a busy man who doesn’t rest on his laurels.…
September 15, 2016 - 12:42 am in Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Featured @en, Home @en, Mark Beech, Music @enFrom Wounded Knee to Musical Wonder
Everybody Powwow! set to fly after 40-year genesis Mark Beech reports on a song cycle, inspired by the environmental and political plight of Native Americans, that is ambitious, promising and…
Stream of Unconsciousness in the Caucasus
By Charlie Fryer & Ali May When you think of electronic music and techno, Berlin or Tokyo may come to mind. Typecasts being typecasts. Cool being cool. But Tbilisi is certainly not a city…Prince Up Close: Mark Beech Remembers the Real Star
Prince Up Close: Mark Beech Remembers the Real Star It doesn’t matter where you were. You heard him. Just feet away from Prince, as I have been, or hundreds of meters away sitting in…
Adele: The Next Stage
Adele is now stadium sized. After years of resisting the larger arenas, she’s now coming to stadia near you, if she hasn’t already. She’s even throwing in an appearance at the world’s…- March 11, 2016 - 10:05 pm in Art and Culture @en, Music @en
Near-Death Experience – to One to Watch
Singer Erica Chase on Her Unlikely Road By Mark Beech Erica Chase has a cool new single out called “Paris.” She also has one of the most unusual of backstories. It all came about after… 
Black Day, Black Star
DANTE pays tribute: David Bowie RIP Mr Bowie and Me By Mark Beech Just five days ago, I was writing a review of David Bowie’s “Blackstar.” In my job, I get to hear a lot of new albums, in…
How Thin Lizzy Inspired Single for Duchess’s Charity
Dante recommends Lynott tribute By Mark Beech It was 30 years ago today. On January 4 1986, Irish musician Phil Lynott died. The lead singer of Thin Lizzy was 36. The songwriter and bass…
Adele – Another Success
Mark Beech with Massimo Gava
London celebrates African culture in word, symbol and song
Dante Recommends the British Library’s show “West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song” By Mark Beech, Editor Chinese culture. Italian culture. Spanish and Portuguese culture. British and American…
Yin and Yang in Music
Rock music splits fans down the middle, but what lies on either side of the divide - and is that dividing line the right one? by Mark Beech There’s a famous question in Quentin Tarantino’s…
June 2, 2015 - 7:11 pm in Art and Culture @en, Business @en, Design @en, Fashion @en, Film @en, Home @en, Music @enA Crystal Clear Objective
A woman of great substance, Nadja Swarovski has been credited with turning the traditional family business into a global player within the worlds of fashion, design, art and even film entertainment.…
Joana Carneiro: The Maestrina Conducts Further Ahead
Music is a constantly evolving, ever-changing language. Joana Carneiro, acclaimed young Portuguese conductor speaks it fluently. A rising star in the rarefied world of orchestral conducting, she…
STEFAN MILENKOVICH The Man Who Speaks the Language of the Eighth Note…
What is it like to be a child prodigy? How to keep your centre and still be the conduit for Pythagorean insights to the universality of making the airwaves throb with the eighth note? Elisa Nocca…
Sadness Filled With Joy
A singer and a painter of some substance but both prone to deep melancholy are united in a new show at the BA Kunstforum in Vienna. Austria. By Reya von Galen An exhibition of more than…
Everything’s gone green
Over the last two years, rock has been getting steadily greener. More than ever, musicians are expected to be caring and ecologically friendly. In response, they are producing more songs which…
August 22, 2014 - 9:55 pm in Events @en, Music @enSettimana Mozzartiana | 11th -14th of September 2014 Rovereto Trento – Italy
Thursday 11th September 17.00h- Loreto Square, Rovereto Trento - IT MOZART BOYS&GIRLS: JAZZ QUARTET “4 DI PICCHE” Andrea Citroni – Guitar; Luciano Sorcinelli - Bass; Luca Perri…
Wacky rock
Most artists aren’t exactly ordinary. Much of the arts are by definition a little bizarre. This is nowhere more true than with rock and pop. Some of the most crazed music is actually among the…
Printemps Musical de Silly
The «Printemps Musical de Silly» is an outstanding classic music festival located in the center of the Belgium’s countryside, 40 km away from Brussels. The festival takes place in private…
February 17, 2014 - 1:37 pm in Music @enWinter of Discontent Tchaikovsky’s take.
Creative minds have always been inspired by nature and the sharp contrasts of winter are no exception. Philip Rham offers an overview but quickly homes in on the heart-warming magic of Christmastime…
October 1, 2013 - 12:05 am in Music @enRock Divas
It’s a man’s world, as the saying goes. And that’s doubly so for rock‘n roll. Despite a continued presence in the world of pop and rock music, it seems women are perpetually being rediscovered…
August 1, 2013 - 10:06 pm in Music @enBack to the Future as Bands Re-form, Go Green
Rock is looking back, in order to look forward. Bands are re-forming, sometimes after decades apart. As is perhaps appropriate, their music is getting more environmentally friendly. Mark Beech’s…
June 1, 2013 - 12:45 pm in Music @enThe Towering Figure of Wagner
Richard Wagner is a towering and controversial figure in the history of opera. Even now, two hundred years after his birth (which coincides with Verdi’s bicentenary) Wagner caused quite a stir…
April 1, 2013 - 9:47 am in Music @enThe Eternal Spring of Vivaldi
Now so ubiquitous as to border on cliché, the works of the Italian Baroque master Antonio Vivaldi were virtually unknown and went unheard for almost two centuries. Philip Rham explains why you…
February 16, 2013 - 12:29 pm in Music @enA Modern Instrument’s Revival
Once used in film music and then almost forgotten, the theremin has been experiencing a revival in the last few years. It is a “Golden Age” for German-born musician and composer Carolina Eyck,…
December 8, 2012 - 4:30 pm in Music @enMusic of Quality and Distinction
A distillation of some of the best music of 2012. M Music is like wine: even if you don’t know so much about it, you know what you enjoy; or as Mick Jagger put it: “I’m no schoolboy, but…
September 10, 2012 - 8:35 pm in Music @enGreen Rock
Rock music can be less cerebral than other arts, a little less caring. In its purest form, it often appeals more to parts of the body below the waist than to those above the collar. But that doesn't…
July 1, 2012 - 12:45 pm in Music @enGoodbye, So Long
"The life of a modern day troubadour is seldom the luxury and adulation of Rock n Roll stardom. For most hard working Rockers, the road means long hours, short pay, gigs in dirty dives and whatever…
May 31, 2012 - 8:40 am in Music @enIt’s All Going On, All the Time
By Dean Rispler The legendary Manhattan music scene may be dead or gentrified beyond recognition, but that doesn’t mean that New York City isn’t still a great live music town. You just need…
Laura Pausini: An Unassuming Superstar
Over the years, Massimo Gava has encountered Laura Pausini at various moments in her career. As she's evolved from a young girl singing pop tunes to a worldwide singing star, he's been won over…
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