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MUSIC: Nylon and Steel
by Geoffrey Himes The “Concierto de Aranjuez” is not only one of the most recognizable pieces of 20th century classical music, but also the most popular piece for classical guitar from any era.
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Biography Saxophonist, composer and author Walt Weiskopf began his New York career performing with the Buddy Rich Big Band in 1981 at the age of 21. Since then, he has made an impressive mark as both a leader and sideman with 12 critically-acclaimed CDs and countless sideman credits, including performing and recording with Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, Donald Fagen and Steve Smith's Jazz Legacy.
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MUSIC: Making Hay
Jon Weisberger What’s had bluegrass fans in a tizzy all year is the news that Union Station's Dan Tyminski is digging into old turf.
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MUSIC: Trains Across the Sea
For all anyone knows, the shakiness that sometimes takes over David Berman’s voice is a conscious technique, but it doesn’t sound like one.
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Janis Joplin musical hits Long Center
The music of Janis Joplin will fill the halls of Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts in a feature tribute performance called "Love, Janis."
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Kimmel Center Summer Solstice Celebration Sponsored by Citibank Heats up in Philly with Annual All-Day, All-Night ...
Summer Solstice Celebration Extends Outdoors with Spruce Street Between Broad and 15th Closed Down for an Even Bigger Party! Kimmel Center Summer Solstice Celebration sponsored by Citibank® heats up in Philly with annual all-day, all-night musical extravaganza at the Kimmel Center from 3pm on Saturday, June 21, 2008 until dawn on Sunday, June 22, 2008 . Audiences of all ages may enjoy up to 15 ...
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MUSIC: Danny Rhodes, 1950-2008
Danny Rhodes, the founder, guitarist and lead singer of 1980s Nashville band The Nerve, died from complications due to gastric cancer on May 23 in Cottonwood, Ariz.
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New Mexico Jazz Workshop to Host Rob Mullins in Concert
Billed as a “Concert Under the Stars", this event will mark the first appearance of Rob Mullins in the region since 1989. “I think it will be a perfect summer concert setting to debut much of my new original material from STORYTELLER and other albums to the New Mexico jazz community", said Mullins.
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SCENECAST: Episode 136
Scenecast Episode 136 gets all E pluribus unum this week with sonic real estate from Pat Coil Sextet, Kelleigh Bannen, Nashville Jazz Orchestra, Headlights, John England and the Western Swingers, Eef Barzelay, Luke Bulla, Casey Driessen, New Frontiers, The Long Winters, The Queers and a tidbit from Orchestra Nashville's Music of the Spirit.
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MUSIC: The Spin
Thursday night was Nada Surf’s first time playing Mercy Lounge after two straight packed out shows at Exit/In in the last two years.
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COVER STORY: Funny or Die
The Bonnaroo comedy tent is an oasis in the desert (read: air-conditioned tent in the dusty, hippy-strewn festival wasteland).
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Summer festivals see revival
When the tens of thousands of music-crazy fans gather in the Tennessee countryside this weekend for Bonnaroo, they'll be part of not just one of the summer's biggest music festival, but a nationwide revival.
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New From Apple: The iPod Phono
Turns out the long-playing record album may not be as much of an anachronism as once thought. As CD sales slip into the mud, and digital music outlets pop up on the Web as quickly as Starbucks stores, vinyl is staging a comeback.
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Cage Match
And it's Birdcage Vs. HPSCHD —two original compositions from that great American musical inventor and electronic musician John Cage . Both pieces feature classic Cage components like chance-controlled melody and rhythm, and environmental sounds. But who will come out on top?
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The Sound Check Fitness Program
Sound Check’s legs are tired after this weekend and here’s why: We were out running our not-so-in-shape bodies around town lending our ears to whatever free (or at least affordable) music we could find. With the mercury stretching its neck into the mid 60s and the sun peeking out for more than it has in weeks, Bendites emerged from their homes, shedding winter jackets and pretending that summer ...
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Rising Up: Roots of Creation are out to save the world and your faith in reggae
On a freezing cold Friday night on the last day of November, my friend and I throw back our margaritas, bundle up and head out into the snow to make our way to Armadillo’s Burritos in Keene, New Hampshire to see a band called Roots of Creation. Even though we get there early, the bar is already filled and the beer line goes almost to the door. I’m skeptical about the band, but by the second ...
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Aussies set to rattle Windies top order
Australia is set to go for the jugular as it guns for a series victory against the West Indies with Ricky Ponting warning the hosts to expect some chin music in this week's third Test.
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YANGAROO and Universal Canada Extend Agreement for Use of DMDS
TORONTO, BUSINESS WIRE -- YANGAROO Inc., (TSX-V: YOO, OTCBB: YOOIF) the industry's leading secure digital media distribution company, announced that it has extended its agreement with Universal Music Canada, the country's leading music company, for distribution of promotional music to radio via YANGAROO'S Digital Media Distribution System ("DMDS"). Universal Music has been using DMDS ...
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Trying to avoid offense, Kosovo chooses anthem
The newly independent country chose music without lyrics to avoid offending its Serbian minority.
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Univision.com Launches ''En Directo'' with Latin GRAMMY(R) Winner Fonseca
NEW YORK----Univision Online, Inc., the interactive subsidiary of Univision Communications Inc., the nation's leading Spanish-language media company, today announced the launch of a groundbreaking music microsite on Univision.com called "En Directo" with a free online concert by Colombian Latin GRAMMY® artist Fonseca.
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Shoaib Harris: The Indian Heroine Tulsi Falls in the Battle For Freedom of Speech in Karzai's Afghanistan
It is particularly cruel to ban a family-oriented drama in a country whose populations were deprived of all legitimate entertainment opportunities for over half a decade under the Taliban.
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Ryko Distribution Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement With Driven Music Group
Ryko Distribution today announced an exclusive distribution agreement with Driven Music Group to distribute all physical and digital releases from Driven Music's artists in the U.S. and Canada.
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Bonnaroo helps bring festivals back from the dead
(AP) -- When the tens of thousands of music-crazy fans gather in the Tennessee countryside this weekend for Bonnaroo, they'll be part of not just one of the summer's biggest music festival, but a nationwide revival.
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UPDATE: Cliq Fails To Click, UK Mobile/Radio Music Service Closes With $4 Million Loss
Well, that was embarrassing. UBC Media's Cliq mobile/radio music download service is shutting down today, a year after the UK radio outfit invested £1.6 million in the project, UBC said, confirming FT.com's speculation.
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A cappella group gives students a lesson in sound
The booming, bopping, beat-boxing, bass-line dropping boys of the a capella music group Ball in the House had the children of North Pembroke Elementary School bobbing their heads and banging their hands on the floor of the gymnasium, as the group gave tutorials about the benefits of music, singing and how to make instrumental sounds with your mouth.
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