Georges Moustaki continues to inspre from the stage with his values, good luck and lyrical words even at the age of seventy-three. Musician, author, composer, interpreter and poet, his works have been inspiration to, and voiced by, great artists, such as: Piaf, Reggiani, Barbara, Dalida, Montand and Salvador, amongst others. Georges Moustaki revealed his talent as an interpreter in 1969 with Le Métèque (The Foreigner), written for cinema. He is equally passionate about writing, drawing and painting. He travels extensively throughout France and the world (sometimes on motorbike) to meet with friends, make new ones and sing about his permanent revolution everywhere. He is an uncomplicated person, natural, lively, fun and witty; his artistic career covers a wide spectrum of artistic expression. In terms of his music, he has worked on a total of forty-two productions, which include own works, collaborations, compilations, music for theatre and film sound tracks. His 2003 album includes tracks such as Odeon, Le promeneur, Emma (feat Emma Thompson), Petit testament, Gardez vous reves, L’amant de secours, Petite âme soeur, Quand j’étais un voyou and Paris a le coeur tendre. Songs like Le repenti, Amant de secours and Je m’en irai, in addition toprobing self-portraits painted by Moustaki, inspired by the poet René Char, will fill the auditorium from the stage at the Palau de la Música. For his 2003 album, Moustaki used arrangements by Jean-Claude Vannier, the same man behind the Histoire de Melody Nelson album and many songs by Claude Nougaro. In his projects with Moustaki, Vannier has directed a very unusual orchestra, one that resonates with flute fugues, violin outbursts and string harmonies.
In 1947, Emperor Maximilian I moved the Imperial Court and the Innsbruck musicians to Vienna. He gave specific instructions that there should be six boys amongst his musicians. As there is no document in existence to prove when the choir was founded, historians cite 1498 as the year in which the Vienna Boys’ Choir officially began. Important musicians that have worked with the choir include: Heinrich Isaac, Paul Hofhaimer, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Salieri and Anton Bruckner. Some important composers were also members of the choir, such as Jacobus Gallus and Franz Schubert, or their substitutes, the brothers Franz Joseph and Michael Haydn as well as the directors Hans Richter, Felix Mottl and Clemens Krauss. Following the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire in 1918, the Austrian government took responsibility for the Court Opera (the orchestra and adult choir) but not the junior choir. That it survived is due to the initiative and vision of Josef Schnitt, who was named Imperial Chapel Dean in 1921. From this time onwards, the choir has featured in concerts with all great directors of the century, such as: Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti and Sir Georg Solti. Today there are ninety-five singers in the choir, aged between ten and fourteen and divided into four choirs. The choir goes on tour in Europe and is frequently invited to tour in Asia, Australia, and Latin America, as well as the United States and Canada, almost every year. The choir’s repertoire spans five centuries of music, and includes renaissance as well as contemporary works. Benjamin Britten and other Austrian composers such as Heinz Kratochwil, Ernst Krenek and Anton Heiller have all written works for the Vienna Boys’ Choir. Britten composed The Golden Vanity for the choir and directed its premiere at the Festival Aldeburgh in 1967. The choir travelled to China, Japan and Germany Gerald Wirth’s junior opera, based on The Little Prince by Saint-Exupéry. In addition to their own tours and projects, each season the boys take part in adult choirs as well as orchestral concerts. The choir participated in the Coronation Mass by Mozart at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, under the direction of Riccardo Muti. It also regularly provides soloists for great orchestral or choir works such as the Chichester Psalms by Britten, Das Klagende Lied by Mahle, and The Magic Flute by Mozart. Every Sunday, except during the summer holidays, the choir sings at Mass in the Imperial Chapel, a tradition that dates from 1498.
ÁLBUM CIRCUITOS DE LUJO, UN NUEVO TRATADO DE POP El pasado 26 de febrero de 2008 se publicó Circuitos de lujo, el nuevo álbum de Pastora. Es el tercer disco del trío formado por Dolo Beltrán y los hermanos Caïm y Pauet Riba, que continúa una carrera ejemplar dentro del pop contemporáneo español. Tres meses estuvo Pastora inmerso en la producción de Circuitos de lujo junto a Brian Sperber (que ha trabajado con Moby, The Wannadies, Dinosaur Jr., Patti Smith...), coproductor del álbum junto a Caïm Riba. Pastora ha echado el resto en un álbum de enorme categoría por la calidad de sus canciones, la originalidad de las letras y una manera única de acercarse al pop. Circuitos de lujo marca un antes y un después en la música de Pastora. Con una producción sofisticadamente artesana, la banda ha apostado por lo natural, por lo directo, por lo enérgico, por un sonido más orgánico. Menos ordenador y más músculo, algo que enriquecerá sus conciertos. Se diría que Pastora ha invertido los parámetros de su música, pasando de un pop electrónico con toques acústicos a otro más tocado que programado. Lo que no ha variado es la esencia de sus canciones, con magníficas y originales músicas de Caïm Riba y las siempre inspiradas letras de Dolo Beltrán. Canciones escritas desde el lado más enigmático del sentimiento y que tratan de lo imprevisto, de la rutina y la mediocridad, de nostalgias y realidades, huídas y reencuentros, de pérdidas y perdedores, desengaños y frustraciones...Todo contado con sensualidad mediterránea por la voz cercana y magnífica de Dolo, siempre hábil en la búsqueda de la palabra adecuada, tierna, sorprendente. Circuitos de lujo se ha publicado en formato Opendisc (CD audio estándar con una sesión de datos adicional para abrir en el ordenador) que contiene un saludo de Pastora, comentario de las canciones hechos por la banda, clip de Grandes despedidas, making of del vídeo, cuatro remezclas de Cuánta vida (realizadas por Ergot y Wally López & David Ferrero) y fotos.
Achinoam Nini, NOA, is the best-known Israeli artist in existence. Born in Tel-Aviv in 1969, she lived in New York from the age of two until she returned to Israel on reaching the age of seventeen. NOA studied music at the Rimon School, where she met her music partner and friend Gil Dor. Together, they have written and produced four albums that have been enormously successful in Israel and another four international albums: "Noa", "Calling", "Blue Touches Blue" and "Now". NOA’s main influences feature singer-songwriters from the sixties, such as Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. NOA’s great musical and lyrical sensitivity, in combination with her Yemenite roots, and Gil Dor’s musical background in Jazz, classical music and the world of rock, have led NOA and Gil to create a unique sound. NOA has performed hundreds of highly successful concerts worldwide, received with great critical acclaim. They have played on many different stages, which include the Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York, the Olympia in Paris, the Zellerbach Auditorium in San Francisco, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Festival de Jazz de Montreaux and the Paleo Music in Switzerland, the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and the Water Festival en Stockholm. She strongly upholds the use of dialogue for achieving peace at all times, demonstrated by her participation in different events as well as her proximity to other religions and cultures. She was the first Israeli artist officially invited on tour in Morocco and has performed several times in the Vatican. She has also sung on numerous occasions with Palestinian musicians, as well as musicians from other Arab countries, such as Argelino Khaled. NOA’s work in promoting the role of artists in defence of peace was recognized with the "Crystal Award", which she received at the "World Economic Forum" in Davos, Switzerland. She has acted here on different occasions alongside Palestine artists at events associated with peace in the Middle East. She was also invited to sing in Oslo to mark the anniversary of the peace treaty signed in Oslo, during a concert that was attended by Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat. In November 1995, she sung before an audience of fifty thousand people during a peace rally at Tel Aviv, only minutes before Yitchak Rabin was assassinated. NOA and Gil have performed on different occasions with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, led by great directors, including Zubin Mehta. She has toured with artists such as Sting, sung with Stevie Wonder and shared both the stage and microphone with other great musicians of international acclaim. In 2001 she gave birth to her first child, a boy named Ayehli. During the same year, she completed her fourth international album with Gil Dor and Yohad Nevo, NOW (Universal Music) In 2003, the compilation album, NOA GOLD, was released. On August 12th 2004, NOA became a mother for the second time, to a baby daughter called Enéa. Between 2003 and 2006, the trio, formed by NOA, Gil Dor and Zohar Fresco (an extraordinary percussionist, close friend and music partner for many years), performed at a concert with the Neapolitan group, Solis String Quartet. The fusion of instruments and styles in this performance highlighted NOA’s huge musical range, music that has captured audiences across Europe at sell-out concerts. In 2007, NOA released “Noa sings Jazz”, live, which features well-known jazz standards selected in homage to the artists that wrote them. In 2008, the biggest surprise yet arrived: the new and original album by NOA, GENES & JEANS, released in March. Roots and jeans: tradition and modernity, past and present, the life and experience of NOA transformed into an album that is her most suggestive and emotional work to date. As well as the album, NOA embarked upon her latest world tour GENES AND JEANS, which came to Spain in April 2008 and included a concert as part of the MUNDUA TOLOSAN, on April 11th. GENES AND JEANS contains Yemeni ethnic and cultural influences that are NOA’s origins. It also reflects her experience in the United States as well as her current life in Israel. NOA sums up her artistic and personal experiences in an album that will go down in history. NOA uses her contemporary and original compositions to shape her own history in the form of her music. We have the opportunity to listen to her in person. 
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