![]() ![]() On stage, Abel Tesfaye is a noticeably sweeter but less charismatic figure than you might expect. The concept is pretty opaque – you wouldn’t have a clue what was supposed to be going on up there unless you’d read the advance publicity – but the relentlessness of its visual and aural bombardment is impressively beguiling. He obviously goes home happy, but it’s hard not to feel that he has missed out. He spends virtually the entire gig glued to coverage of the Champions League final on his mobile, blind to any cosmic cataclysm that doesn’t involve City failing to win the treble. Coupled with the speed at which the show’s tracks are dispatched – they are truncated and segue into each other, which enables the Weeknd to cram a staggering 33 songs into just under two hours – it’s a lot to take in, although apparently not enough to distract at least one fan’s attention from what’s happening in the Ataturk Stadium. Photograph: Samir Hussein/WireImageĪll this is intended to represent “a journey through a cosmic cataclysm that has erupted and plagued the Earth”. The song doesn’t feature in the setlist, but no matter: the model slowly rotates, shoots coloured lights from its eyes, and provides a focal point around which dancers, clad in white robes and veils that look not unlike Tuareg tagelmusts, move in slow concentric circles. ![]() The walkway is decorated with an immense moon dangling over its far end and an even more immense model of the Hajime Sorayama-designed robot featured in the video for 2011’s Echoes of Silence. But most of the action takes place on a runway that stretches nearly the full length of the Etihad Stadium’s pitch, which also belches out fire at strategic moments, and comes illuminated by dozens of spotlights that either point skywards or focus on the audience, illuminating huge sections of the stands, which are already illuminated by the crowd themselves, equipped with Coldplay-inspired flashing wristbands on arrival. The set is a vast metallic cityscape, filled with ruined landmarks – St Paul’s Cathedral, Toronto’s CN Tower and the Empire State Building among them – which belch out fire or shoot violet-coloured lasers above the crowd at strategic moments. All lessons are delivered online or through the app via video technology designed and delivered by he Weeknd’s 2023 stadium tour – postponed so many times that its title features not just the name of his most recent album, Dawn FM, but its 2020 predecessor, After Hours – is nothing if not spectacular. Group lessons are based on age and experience level. Individual lessons provide the most individualized attention between the student and the instructor. Both individual lessons as well as group lessons are offered. Once a student has registered with they can schedule any available lesson(s) simply by clicking on the desired lesson and paying the lesson fee. Students can now spend more time learning, than driving to lessons. Geography is no longer a constraint in finding high quality music instruction at an affordable price. Students can take lessons with instructors domestically and internationally. ![]() enables music students to find music instructors teaching the instruments and styles of their choice. Live Music Tutor is a web application that provides music lessons through online interaction between music instructors and music students. Learn any instrument live, including voice 24/7. ![]()
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