Since the death of the English singer January 10, many artists have chosen to honor his memory. Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1, many of them gathered at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall with originality to resume its securities.
Nearly three months after the shock of the sudden death of David Bowie, January 10, tributes continue to bloom to celebrate the talent of this versatile artist, glam rocker with flamboyant excesses in the introvert experimenter .
Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1, many American musicians have again produced in his honor in New York in the legendary halls of Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall. Faithful to the rocker remained inventive and modern to the end, many of them have sought new ways to explore a rich and diverse work, rather than simply more or less happy times.
Ashes to Ashes into a ballad for piano
Michael Stipe (right) together with Karen Elson Copyright: Jamie McCarthy / AFP
Michael Stipe, singer and soul REM, did not disappoint and gave the audience one of the highlights of these evenings, transforming Ashes to Ashes – the hit 80s that propelled David Bowie in pop for all – a piano ballad. Stripe, banche long tunic and beard, seemed to address Bowie in the afterlife. A moment so hard that the Radio City Hall and thousands of lucky people who were able to get tickets, were collected in almost complete silence.
The first night of tribute Thursday at Carnegie Hall, was intended to raise funds for schools and music education programs and it is only by chance that the tickets were put for sale shortly after Bowie turns off on 10 January. The tribute to the living artist became a celebration of the dead genius, and the organizers have added a second date at Radio City Hall on Friday to collect a total of over $ 300,000.
Donny McCaslin, a saxophonist chosen by Bowie for his latest album Blackstar , released the day of his 69th birthday and just two days before his death, sang Lazarus . This piece appears in retrospect to be the means chosen by the great artist to announce the end. But on Friday, Bowie was not there to meet the notes of saxophone McCaslin as it does on the album. The latter is therefore used his instrument to make him perform the song, voice and music combined. A moment of virtuoso musician who has earned a standing ovation at Radio City Hall.
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The singers Anna Calvi and Amanda Palmer reinterpreted Blackstar – long piece of 10 minutes speaking about violence and religion. – with the Kronos Quartet and bassist Jherek Bischoff
More traditional in tribute – but certainly not in form – the Flaming Lips have interpreted Life on Mars ?. If the interpretation was classic, the leader of the group chose to sing draped in a scarf with flashing neon lights, perched on the back of a man dressed as Chewbacca, longhaired giant Star Wars .
Joseph Arthur, independent rocker to often sad ballads, has meanwhile chosen the Man Who Sold the World . On stage, he knelt before her guitar Jimi Hendrix way, but instead set it on fire, he briefly raised the American flag on which was scrawled an insult against Donald Trump, the controversial billionaire who made leading the race for the Republican nomination.
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