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Joe Hisaishi is currently midway through his ‘Music From the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki’ tour that will send him to arenas, concert halls and symphony centers all over North America from now until January 2025.Along the way, he’ll swing into New York City’s Madison Square Garden for three huge back-to-back-to-back shows from July 11-13.At all concerts, the 73-year-old maestro will perform cuts from classic films including but not limited to “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” “Ponyo,” “My Neighbor Totoro,” “Princess Mononoke” and “Spirited Away.”“Regardless of whether one knew each particular movie or not, the performance swept each viewer into a unique and fantastic world,” the Maryland Theatre Guide wrote in a rave review of the show.And if you want to see the beloved conductor bring his classic scores to life with accompanying footage of each motion picture, tickets for all 16 remaining U.S. shows on his 2024-25 tour can be secured as soon as today.Prices start at $78 before fees on Vivid Seats at the time of publication.Other shows have seats ranging anywhere from $80 to $1,293 before fees.Curious how much tickets cost for the Hisaishi concert closest to you?For more information, we’ve got everything you need to know and more about Joe Hisaishi’s 2024-25 ‘Music From the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki’ tour below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found here.(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be

“The White Lotus” will have a new location —and a new composer.Cristóbal Tapia de Veer, who has been the composer on the HBO drama for the past three seasons, revealed he won’t be back next time around.During an interview with the New York Times, the Emmy winner shared he and series creator Mike White had different ideas for the iconic “White Lotus” theme song.The two first clashed in Season 1, but it continued into this third season, which is currently airing.Originally, Tapia de Veer created an eery theme song for the show’s first two seasons — on track with the mystery unfolding. The sounds included a fan-favorite “ooh-loo-loo-loo” chorus.“Aloha!” — in Season 1 — had tribal drums and vocals.

Hans Zimmer is an unlikely rock star.For those unfamiliar with his bona fides, the celebrated 67-year-old German composer made his name conducting sublime operatic scores for blockbusters like “The Dark Knight,” “Dune,” “James Bond” and literally hundreds of other films. His exemplary work has netted him a pair of Oscars, five Grammys and even led to an offer to update Saudi Arabia’s National Anthem.So, when Zimmer announced he was embarking on a North American arena tour in March 2024, he took the world by surprise.We all collectively wondered: what does a Hans Zimmer concert look or sound like?He wasn’t giving us clues either. In tandem with the tour announcement, AP News reported “…there is no conductor, no sheet music in front of each musician, and not a single frame from any of the films he’s referencing.”This exciting — if confounding — information served as a bit of intrigue.

Hans Zimmer just announced five additional North American concerts after wrapping the U.S. and Canada leg of his tour in October.The new shows will take place in late January and early February 2025.This time around, the “Lion King” composer is scheduled to headline at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Thursday, Feb.

multiple reports. Jennings won an Academy Award for Best Original Song along with composer James Horner for the haunting ballad from the 1997 disaster film, which was made legendary by Celine Dion.He also won the coveted award for “Up Where We Belong”from “An Officer and a Gentleman,” and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “People Alone” from “The Competition.” In 2006 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

revolutionary technique, called endoscopic transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF).Sandberg had a particularly difficult case — he had developed a cyst, a fluid-filled sac, in a facet joint of his spine, two of his lumbar vertebrae were unstable, and the space within that area had narrowed. He felt pain in both legs as a result.“If there’s a lot of arthritis in [the facet joints], you can get an outpouching of that joint capsule, and that’s called a facet cyst,” Fischer explained to The Post.

Hans Zimmer is a busy man.In 2024 alone, the legendary composer lent his talents to NBC’s “The Americas,” Amazon’s “The Blue Angels,” Disney+’s “Jim Henson: Idea Man,” Fox’s “The Simpsons” and the Netflix film “Damsel.”Yet, he somehow still the prolific two-time Oscar winner has found time to fit a ‘Hans Zimmer Live Tour’ in as well.This September and October, the man who brought the scores for “The Dark Knight,” “Dune,” “Gladiator,” “Lion King” and “The Creator” to the world will play at arenas all over North America for his first live performances since 2017.That includes a gig at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Thursday, Sept. 12.“I come from rock and roll and I believe in putting on a show,” the 66-year-old German shared in an interview with AP News.

in a statement on Twitter. “We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of artist and musician, Ryuichi Sakamoto, on the 28th of March, 2023, he was 71 years old, read the company’s statement. “While undergoing treatment for cancer discovered in June 2020, Sakamoto continued to create works in his home studio whenever his health would allow.”“He lived with music until the very end.

entered hospice care earlier this week as his 18-month battle with stomach cancer worsened, his father announced. Nicholas was dealing with a “bout of pneumonia” due to the cancer, his father said, calling the illness “ghastly.”“We’re all here, and the family here has gathered around, and it was the right place for us all to be I think,” he said in an Instagram video Thursday.The composer was absent from the Thursday opening of his Broadway musical “Bad Cinderella”to be by his son’s side.

told the Associated Press. “And for physicians, it has always been a mystery what was really behind it.”Before his death at the age of 56 in 1827, Beethoven himself requested in 1802 that “his disease be described and made public,” according to the study, which was published Wednesday in journal Current Biology.

posted it to TikTok, asking users to perform the piece.“So, my 10-year-old daughter wrote this,” she said in the video. “Could somebody play this? I need to know.

according to media reports. He was 95.Born in the Bronx on Feb.