Page 29 - AT

A29
PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 15 February 2019
Michael Kors throws a '70s bash with Barry Manilow on stage

By LEANNE ITALIE ago. It's very bizarre, back-
Associated Press stage at a concert. I like
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael everyone else am a huge
Kors threw a fashion show fan," Kors told The Associ-
worthy of Studio 54 with ated Press. "I said to him,
Barry Manilow belting "Co- 'Have you ever gone to a
pacabana" on a glittery fashion show?' And he said
stage and rock muse Patti no. I said 'Watch a few of
Hansen walking the runway our shows on YouTube,
Wednesday. maybe we can do some-
His crowd, seated inside a thing in the future.'"
Wall Street ballroom, went The theme didn't come to-
wild for both on the closing gether until Kors found him-
day of New York Fashion self perusing his old year-
Week as he rolled out shag- book and got to thinking
gy coats and feather boas, about his start in New York
sparkly gowns in neon in the late-70s, and "just
purple and electric blue, this whole convergence of
and flirty ruffles on dresses glamour."
and skirts, all worthy of the At the time, the city was
heady '70s. Designer Michael Kors, center, is joined by model Patti Hansen and Barry Manilow on stage after "pretty gritty and pretty
Sisters Bella and Gigi Had- his collection was modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. dangerous," he recalled,
id took to the catwalk to Associated Press "and music was a huge
help move the bash along, part of it, and dance. And
but the surprise of Ma- ion week, and the day af- plentiful in the clothes, from There was star power on Patti Hansen was all over
nilow's performance had ter an icy snowstorm made his delicate slip dresses to Kors' front row as well: Kerry my walls. I think the last
the crowd on its feet. The that even more challeng- a killer patchwork leather Washington, Catherine Ze- fashion show she was in
75-year-old legend is still go- ing. jacket with black shearling ta-Jones and her husband, was in 1994."
ing strong, proudly showing Kors fall collection cel- sleeves. Michael Douglas, along Ultimately, Kors said, he
off his orange bedazzled ebrated the city's melting Hansen, a '70s superstar with "If Beale Street Could wanted to put together
"Copa" jacket backstage pot of style and the kings model, is married to Keith Talk" Oscar nominee Regi- an optimistic collection.
after the upbeat show. and queens of the era: Bet- Richards and took her turn na King. Perhaps his crushed satin
It's just what the fashion te, Bianca and Baryshnikov on the catwalk with a smile After the show, Kors called charmeuse blouse in co-
crowd needed on the among them. The design- on her face, dressed in an Manilow's appearance the coa would boost your
eighth day of racing from er's impeccable tailoring iridescent trouser suit of cherry on the cake. mood and not bust your
show to show during fash- and eye for details were black and gold. "We met him exactly a year budget.q

Trombonists who died in 2018 honored with music in Cleveland

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Whigham is the jazz or- cians for the warm, mellow
Associated Press chestra's weekend guest, tone he could maintain
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ferguson said, and the even into the instrument's
The late American jazz festival started with the highest registers, Green was
great Urbie Green and idea of paying tribute to perhaps the best known of
three other accomplished Whigham's friend Allen Kof- the bunch. He played with
trombonists who died in sky, a 39-year veteran of most of the major jazz art-
2018 will be remembered the Cleveland Orchestra ists of the 1950s and 1960s,
Saturday at a musical who died in June at age 92. touring with Woody Her-
event in Cleveland. Kofsky had played under man and Gene Krupa. He
Living trombone stars Jiggs such renowned conduc- played on more than 250
Whigham and John Mar- tors as George Szell, Lorin recordings and released
cellus will be featured at Maazel and Christoph von more than two dozen solo
the Memorial Trombone Dohnanyi. albums. Ferguson, also prin-
Festival at Case Western But sad news continued to cipal trombonist and ar-
Reserve University, a con- greet the trombone world. ranger for the Cleveland
cert by some 20 trombon- Respected trombonist and Pops, said the trombone
ists gathered from around band leader Bill Watrous, choir that will assemble to
the city. who had redefined trom- In this July 5, 1960, file photo, Thailand's King Bhumibol Aduly- honor Green, Kofsky, Wa-
The half-day event be- bone technique during adej, right, plays the saxophone during a jam session with leg- trous and Anderson will in-
endary jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, left, drummer Gene
gins with a warm-up led a 50-year career that in- Krupa, second left, and trombonist Urbie Green in New York. clude students from Case
by Case trombone profes- cluded performances with Associated Press and the Cleveland Institute
sor Paul Ferguson, who is Quincy Jones, Prince and of Music and members
the artistic director of the Frank Sinatra, died in July. ban Clifford "Urbie" Green Ferguson said. of the Cleveland Jazz Or-
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Edwin Anderson, a bass ended trombonists' year on Ferguson said the versatil- chestra and the Cleveland
and the event's organizer. trombonist with the Cleve- its final sad note, dying at ity of the trombone shows Trombone Collective.
A rehearsal and a master land Orchestra from 1964 age 92. in the breadth of the four Whigham, a Cleveland na-
class with Whigham and to 1985 and later an Indi- "I can't think of any other trombonists' careers, which tive, is considered one of
Marcellus will be followed ana University professor, fol- year when we've lost so spanned classical, jazz and the premier jazz trombonists
by the culminating after- lowed in October. Then, on many, in what turned out to pop. of the last half century, ac-
noon performance. Dec. 31, the legendary Ur- be a seven-month period," Revered by fellow musi- cording to Ferguson. q