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Majesty of life, set to great music
By CHRIS SHULL DALLAS — A visual element accompanying a classical concert is nothing new these days. But usually they are just pictures with orchestra and feel tacked on. Blue Planet Live is different. The concert, presented by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday at the Meyerson Symphony Center, fully integrates footage from The Blue Planet, a television documentary about ocean life, ...
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Led Zeppelin Say No To Music Game Makers
But some bands have resisted the call of the new medium. Led Zeppelin 's thundering riffs are among the most sought after by music game makers, but the group's guitarist, Jimmy Page , and his bandmates have repeatedly turned down offers from both Activision and MTV, says Peter Mensch, a partner at Q Prime Management, which manages Mr. Page, along with Metallica and other acts.
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Performing arts
JULY Music Mimir Chamber Music Festival Through July 11. Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. $25 per concert. 817-257-5443; www.mimirfestival.org Concerts in the Garden Through July 5. Forth Botanic Garden. $15-$18 for lawn; $22-$45 for reserved seating. Gates open 6:30pm, shows at 8pm. 817-665-6000; www.fwsymphony.org July 4: "Old Fashioned Family Fireworks Picnic" ...
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Concerts in the Garden lineup in Fort Worth includes laser adventure and movie music, Red Steagall, fireworks show
Concerts in the Garden, the 18th annual outdoor summer concert series presented by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, continues. Here are the particulars and what’s coming up: This weekend Friday and Saturday: "Super Awesome Laser Adventure" with the FWSO, conductor Andres Franco and movie music from Harry Potter , Star Wars and other films. Sunday: Local cowboy singer Red Steagall. ...
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The Many Masks Of Rock
Examining the evolution of masquerading musicians. July 3, 2008 - With the revealing of their new masks this week, Slipknot may be the most well-known band of the moment to hide their true identities from the masses.
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A banner year
Known for her pre-hockey anthems, Sara Renner will go wild with a pair of high-profile Christian music gigs this month.
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Donna Summer adds sweet sounds to summer tour; features all the music from new album
WASHINGTON - Donna Summer says she approached her summer tour like a chocolate-chip cookie. The 59-year-old singer said that for the first time, she is incorporating all the music from a new album and most of her hits into the show.
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Summer concert series kicks off tonight
The event is free and open to the public
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'Joker' still the greatest gig for Steve Miller
Steve Miller has the credentials to be one of the world's foremost blues or jazz musicians, but he's quite content to be the Joker. "What better job is there?" he asks rhetorically.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Top things to do July 4-6
Plenty of fireworks, celebrating National Hot Dog Month and the Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters.
Orange County Register |
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Sex Pistols - Lydon Wannabe Stars Should Learn From Sex Pistols
SEX PISTOLS frontman JOHN LYDON has urged today's rock stars to take notes from his legendary punk band - because he is convinced they are "Britain's finest". The ...
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Celebrate the Fourth of July Havre style
Havreites will celebrate Independence Day with a parade, public barbecue, music festival and fireworks again this Fourth of July. The Sixth Annual Fourth of July Celebration will kick-off with the parade. Entrants will line up at 8:30 a.m. at the Fifth Avenue Christian Church.
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Violinist Noel Sayre dies at 37
Noel Sayre, who played violin in the Columbus bands Pretty Mighty Mighty and the Black Swans, died early yesterday morning. He was 37.
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Campground ‘C’ takes on green tinge
A day of foot-stomping, country-rock fun in the Whistler sun just got a little greener with the announcement of support for the Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society by the founders of the Campground “C” Country-Rock Festival.
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"YOUNG@HEART"
"Young at Heart" is cute and playful. You'd have to have a heart of coal not to smile at this documentary about a New England senior-citizens chorus that covers songs by James Brown, Coldplay and other pop icons. The film is as cute and playful as you would think.
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, David Banner, Jonas Brothers
Speaking from personal experience, many music fans met last year’s Raising Sand with a sizable dose of skepticism: "The dude from Led Zeppelin and a bluegrass fiddle player? Really?" But they didn’t count on the bewitching alchemy of Alison Krauss and Robert Plant’s voices, aided by Fort Worth-raised producer T Bone Burnett’s haunting soundscapes, recasting everything from perky Everly ...
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Arts around the Mid-coast; July 2, 2008
Railway Village BOOTHBAY — On Saturday, July 5 the Boothbay Railway Village will host the Maine Antique Power Association and the Maine Antique Tractor Club. The two organizations preserve unique and important mechanical labor-saving devices.
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Strange cults, vocal surgery and the quiet man: Inside Microsoft
Mary-Jo Foley on life after Gates Radio Reg Who'd have thought a bad haircut and rocking backwards and forwards in your chair like a child with ADD could pass as must-have traits? Yet, such was the cult of Bill Gates at Microsoft, company employees adopted these to become more like their boss.…
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Fourth of July events around area add entertainment
While the invention of fireworks is credited to the Chinese, there’s nothing more American for celebrating the Fourth of July. Locally, cities have planned parades, festivals, concerts and, of course, fireworks to commemorate our nation’s 132nd Independence Day.
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40 years into his career, James Taylor tours Canada
James Taylor has never visited Saskatchewan, but - as improbable as it seems - the musician who immortalized his personal struggles with "Fire and Rain" has actually sung about the prairie province that gave birth to Canadian medicare.
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Second Cup Cafe: The Grascals
When The Grascals got the nod from country legend Dolly Parton, audiences knew that the contemporary bluegrass and country band was the real deal.
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Sports briefs
The second annual Sonoma Valley Footrace and Festival fund-raising event - benefiting the performing arts program at Sonoma Developmental Center - takes place tomorrow, Saturday, June 21, and includes a 5K walk/run, a more advanced 10K race and a fun kids run, followed by an after-race festival including a car show, beer and wine tasting, food vendors, carnival games and attractions.
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Midday Update
It's high noon on the Fresno Coast and that can only mean one thing - new dates and new news. Today the data side of the operation features new listings for B.B. King , The Honorary Title , Chiodos and Derek Miller , while our web surfing side has links to items about Rothbury Festival , Mark Ronson , Bruce Springsteen , YouTube user histories and the latest shot in the vinyl vs CD war.
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Customer Service
NEW YORK - Ask his fellow musicians about Alejandro Escovedo and you'll hear nothing but praise. Yet he's never been a household name and, even among rock fans, his work, though influential, is not widely known. He's been more of an aficionado's musician.
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News Bytes of the Week--Making Beautiful Music: Why the Stradivarius Violin is Worth Millions [News]
What makes the unique sound of a Stradivarius violin?The wood, of course. Using x-ray images taken from multiple different angles, radiologist Berend Stoel of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands proved that the spruce and maple wood used in five violins made either by Antonio Stradivari or Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù--the rival master luthiers of Cremona--had fewer variations in ...
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