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The Dallas Morning News
Section ETuesday,October20, 2009
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INSIDE
ELSEWHERE:
Corporations want culture — and the AT&TPerforming Arts Center delivers
1DDVDs:
‘Transformers’ on Blu-ray is awesome, dude
3EHEALTH ALERTS:
Are your vaccinations up to date?
10E
Arts, Entertainment & Life
Hannah Montana
mightaswell be history. Thesuccessful Disney Channelseries has one more season togo, but MileyCyrus hasalready moved on.Her concert performance before a sold-out crowdSunday night at American Airlines Center was ashowcase for Miley Cyrus thesinger, actress andentertainer, not the TV star.She clearly has much biggerendeavors in mind.It’s telling that the bulk of the material making up her80-minute set came from2007’s
Meet Miley Cyrus
,2008’s
Breakout
and thenew EP,
The Time of Our Lives
.It’s also notable thatshe showed the audience thetrailer for
The Last Song
,her2010 coming-of-age film,and then sang a piano balladfrom the movie.Cyrus, 16, is in thatawkward teenager-to-adultphase. She’s trying to figureout how to hold on to thosetweenand teen fans, whoshowed upin massquantities at the show, whileattempting to grow upartistically and personally.Nothing she did on thatplatform should stir upcontroversy, but she’s not akid anymore.
CONCERT REVIEW
Miley sets stage for post-Hannah career
Teen star’s performance aimed at expanding audience
By MARIO TARRADELL
Music Criticmtarradell@dallasnews.comJOHN F. RHODES/Staff Photographer
Nothing she did
at American Airlines Center should stirup controversy, but Miley Cyrus is clearly growing up.
See
MILEY
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Isought answers from barefootersand tried it myself.Hamlin Jones offers reassurance tolocal runners interested in the trend.Last year, the marathon coach atLuke’s Locker in Plano began running barefoot. Two months ago, he started wearing Vibram FiveFingers — shoesthat look like fingered socks and offersome protection.Heonce was hoofing it down ahighway when his bare feet caughtsome attention.
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Akid said, ‘Hey, you’re not wearing shoes!’ I said, ‘Hey, you are!’ I wanted to show that if I can go outthere and do these things, why can’tother people?”Hesays he’s drawn to barefootrunning because it’s a challenge
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something I could relate to. But I hadconcerns about my first official barefoot run.Would people look at melike I’m crazy? Would I step onsomething sharp? Orin somethingdisgusting?Isucked it up and began a slow gaiton a paved trail at the lake’s Winfrey Point. My bare soles sounded like acat’s tongue licking a rough surface,and I was surprised at howcomfortable my form felt. Perhaps because of some primal body memory,Inaturally struck the pavementforefoot-first instead of heel-first. Thisdefinitely felt different.Ted McDonald of Seattle feels thedifference, too. He was approaching40 several years ago, and he’d always wanted to run a marathon. But noteven the best shoes allowed him to runfor more than an hour without pain.He had already been hiking barefoot and decided to try it on a run.He had an epiphany.
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All the things I thought werenecessary were exactly counter to whatIdid need, which was just to learn howtorun correctly,” says McDonald, who’s widely known as
“
Barefoot Ted”among runners.
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With the shoe, somuch of running is about cutting off ordisassociating from what you’redoing.” Barefoot running, he says,
“
forces you to be mindful and very present.”In February, Josh Stevenson, aChristchurch, New Zealand,multisport and adventure racer, wasthe first ever to finish the243-kilometer Speight’sCoast toCoast race of kayaking, cycling androad and mountain runs completely barefoot.It took five days for his swollen feetand ankles to recover, and he sworehe’d never do something that crazy again. Stevensonwent back to runninginshoes — and hated it.
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Ibelieve that in the next five years,there will be a shift in shoe design toshoes like Vibram FiveFingers andthat the current shoe designs areold-school,” he says.
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By running barefoot, I have strengthened thesupporting muscles in my feet andankles and my running has improvedout of sight.”
HEALTHY LIVING
Good for the long run?
STEWART F. HOUSE/Special Contributor
What’s missing
from this picture? Hint: Check out the feet. Hamlin Jones, 38, runs barefoot with his daughterHeather, 9, at Warren Sports Complex in Frisco. Jones says running barefoot can be an attention-getter.
I
tfelt strange leaving behind my cushy AsicsasIheaded out the doorfor a run at White RockLake. Even stranger washeading out for a run with noshoes at all.If you spend time at theKaty Trail or any other fitnesshot spot, chances are you’veseen someone padding along barefoot or in funny shoesresembling foot-gloves. Athletic adherents across theglobe are increasingly running barefoot or minimally shod inraces from 5 kilometers to 100miles. Why would runnersforgo standard running shoes,engineered over three decadesto stabilize, cushion andcomfort?
Runners kick off their shoes to try barefooting
By CHRISTY ROBINSON
Special Contributor
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Cape Cod, Mass., wouldn’t immediately come to mind as a hotbedofhigh-level choralsinging. But the choirknown as Gloriae DeiCantores (Singers to theGlory of God), which is based at the Church of theTransfiguration inOrleans, has touredinternationally andrecorded two dozen CDs. Aspart of a 10-city U.S.tour, the group performedSunday evening at theCathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.There was much to admireinaprogram of Russianmusic, three motets by theEnglishman EdmundRubbraand the gloriousMass for Double Choir by the Swiss composer FrankMartin.Led with strikingly minimal gestures by Elizabeth Patterson,the36-voice group sang withfirm tone, a wide dynamicrange, lovely legato linesand generous expressivity.The cathedral provided arichly reverberantacoustic, the closest in thearea to the great Europeancathedrals for which somuch major choral music was conceived.The chorus was at itsconsiderable best in theMartin, one of the greatest20th-century settings of the Latin Mass. Voice partslapped gently at the beginnings of the Gloriaand Sanctus, but climaxesstirred up thrilling massesofsound. In a spectacular-lyunfortunate mistiming,though, the adjacent AT&TPerforming Arts Center setoff loud fireworks duringthe Benedictus and AgnusDei. Groan.This was a concert withits share of bad luck.Parents with babies and young children whocouldn’t keep quiet wandered in and out fromthe all-day Arts Districtcelebration. The minuteorganist James Jordanstarted to play the BachC-major Toccata, half theaudience stood up andstarted talking. After two warmly molded movements fromTchaikovsky’s
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
,thechoir’s intonation driftedintwo movements fromRachmaninoff’s
All-Night Vigil.
And neither thesix-movement
Ineffable Mystery
byRussiancomposer Georgy Sviridov nor three Tenebraemotets by Rubbra struck me asmusic of great interest.The Rubbra’s oddprogressions also neededmore absolutely precisetuning.
CONCERT REVIEW
The glory of song atGuadalupeCathedral
AT&T fireworks,restless audiencemar performance
BySCOTT CANTRELL
Classical Music Criticscantrell@dallasnews.com
Plan your life
Repeats 7:30 tonightat St.Stephen Presbyterian Church,2700 McPherson, Fort Worth.Donation. 817-927-8411.www.gdcchoir.org.
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