Thursday, November 24, 2011

Beautiful Music, Beautiful Faces...

As a generation lives in an era that beautiful visual matters, we can't fight the feeling that music performers with good looking face will get our attention the most. Not just applicable in pop music, but also classical music dinasty.

I'm not trying to tell that a classical artist should have a flawless face to boost her records or concert ticket sales, but what I'm trying to state is handsome/beautiful-ness of classical performer can break the stereotype of classical music in today's generation mind: classical music can be only enjoyed/performed by old people.

In the past few years, my attention to classical music has been growing as I explore more about the music itself. YouTube helped me a lot. Well, YouTube loves beautiful faces. Indeed. By YouTube-ing, I found some classical music prodigies who happen have such beautiful faces play sublime music. A year ago, I watched a British violinist Charlie Siem.  Well, he is a mix of British and Sweden blood from his parents. In my opinion he's got a glimpse of face, mix of Burberry model and 70s actor. During his musical career, the model faced musician have been featured in numbers of fashion magazine such as GQ and Vogue. Also, he became the face for menswear line, Dunhill.




Another stringed instrument performer that got attention this past few months is Milos Karadaglic. The Montenegro native artist breaks the music world over the absent of classical guitar record for many years since the John Williams era. With more than 7,000 likes and counting on his Facebook page and debut album the 2011 released 'The Guitar' still topping the charts , Milos has already been the worldwide sensation because of his guitar play. Fashion magazine wants to feel the excitement too, so Milos once featured in Vogue US for his concert review in Carnegie Hall, NYC.





Thursday, November 10, 2011

More Classical-Pop Acts to Come! Are You Ready Jakarta?

Russell Watson just made his way to Jakarta last October as the part of David Foster world tour. Too bad I wasn't able to see this Wales tenor performed, but I hope he enjoyed performing here so next time, he will bother himself to arrange another concert here.

We just had Watson, Bocelli and Westenra too on last May, who's next to hit Jakarta stage?? Well ladies, you might like it. Two handsome boys of 2 CELLOS will perform in Jakarta on this Friday of November 18 as the opening act of Elton John's Jakarta concert. 2 Cellos are Luka Sullic and Stjepan Hauser, they are classically trained cellists, mostly based in London and had performed in numerous prestigious concert venues around the world. With their self-titled debut album just released under SONY MASTERWORKS label, now they are taking the world by storm, striking the listeners' ears with some famous pop numbers ranging from U2's 'With or Without You' to Michael Jackson's 'Smooth Criminal'.



With the invitation by Sir Elton John himself to open his world-tour concert, now you can see them perform live here in Jakarta.

For tickets, you can go to www.bigdaddy.co.id 

See 2CELLOS performing at iTunes Festival 2011.