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Recent Original Stories
Creating a surprise twist in the portable music wars, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied Apple's application to patent its method of using hierarchical menus to navigate through the iPod's contents.
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Correspondence: On Slim Gaillard
It's interesting to contrast this with one of the very last Slim Gaillard clips I have seen, in the movie Absolute Beginners , from 1986. Gaillard was in real life what he plays in that movie- one of the midwives of the birth of postmodernism in music.
All About Jazz |
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Smooth Jazz Network to Feature Stevie Wonder Tribute Compilation Single
Smoothjazznetwork.com has invited Boosweet Records guitarist and label CEO Vernon Neilly to debut his 1st Smooth Jazz single titled “I Was Made To Love You" featuring U-Nam from his latest project, which is a Stevie Wonder tribute compilation entitled: Vernon Neilly & Friends: A Tribute to Stevie Wonder . The CD is set for worldwide release on July 15th, 2008. Fortunately for smooth jazz and ...
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College Hill Arts Festival features artistic variety, music
CEDAR FALLS --- The last thing Karen Armentrout worried about during recent flooding was her stained glass art.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier |
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Beatles producer Martin honored in Los Angeles
Sir George Martin, the classically trained producer who helmed the Beatles recordings from their mop-top phase through their late musical masterworks, was honored Saturday night in Los Angeles. Martin, 82, received a career award from The Recording Academy's Grammy Foundation, which provides education programs for future music professionals and works to preserve musical history. Martin is the ...
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Prodigy gets noticed
When the New York Youth Symphony commissioned and played a work by emerging young composer Roger Zare at Carnegie Hall in 2006, he was delighted. He also thought his next trip to Carnegie Hall would be "maybe when I'm starting to have a career in music. I didn't realize it'd be so soon."
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Art, music and dance Festival livens up downtown Laconia
Ray Mongeau/Citizen photo Melissa Morrison of Sanbornton performs a mix of belly dance and tribal fusion dancing during Saturday's Arts Day in downtown Laconia.
The Citizen of Laconia |
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Longtime, acclaimed Midland violin teacher retires
A lot has changed in the 63 years Virginia Dent has lived in Midland.
Midland Daily News |
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Beatles producer Martin honored in Los Angeles
Sir George Martin, the classically trained producer who helmed the Beatles recordings from their mop-top phase through their late musical masterworks, was honored Saturday night in Los Angeles.
Centre Daily Times |
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Sound Symposium Ending Today
Today is the last day to take in the shows and events of Sound Symposium, the ten day international festival of new and creative types of music and performing arts. The line up today begins at the St. John's Waterfront with the Harbour symphony ,St. John's Waterfront.
Voice of the Common Man |
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Beatles producer Martin honored in Los Angeles; Lennon, Harrison widows among attendees
LOS ANGELES - Sir George Martin, the classically trained producer who helmed the Beatles recordings from their mop-top phase through their late musical masterworks, was honored Saturday night in Los Angeles.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune |
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Book reviews: "Rules of Deception" and "The Size of the World"
Chistorpher Reich had a turbo-charged plot in the offing, and he begins explicating it with more originality and verve than might initially have been expected. And Joan Silber's quiet music turns symphonic.
International Herald Tribune |
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Festival features arts in addition to fair attractions
The scenic beauty of Bucks County - interpreted through painting, photography and crafts - is on display this weekend at the 59th Tinicum Arts Festival.
Bucks County Courier Times |
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T In The Park - Man In Hospital After Stabbing At T In The Park Festival
A festivalgoer at the T in the Park concert in Scotland has been admitted to hospital after being stabbed at the event.Tayside police said a 22-year-old man ...
ContactMusic |
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Artfully showing off Bucks
Atmosphere under the trees at Tinicum Park makes for a lazy day at the festival.
The Intelligencer |
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Unique guitar stolen in burglary
A unique guitar is among the £25,000 worth of items stolen during a burglary at a house in Essex.
BBC News |
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76 TROMBONES, & THEN SOME
HERE AT THE SHORE, the summer classical music audience is mostly tourists — vacationers who would sooner stroll the moonlit strand than dip their toes in No Wave. To entice them, concert producers eschew experiment and serve up "comfort music" — overplayed masterworks and light classics.
Asbury Park Press |
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Ecru goes Zerosmoke
BY DANZA JOHNSON Daily Journal ECRU - The only thing smoking in Ecru Saturday were barbecue grills. The Pontotoc County town of 944 residents held a celebration with music, rides and more at North Pontotoc High School for its town-wide smoke-free program.
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal |
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Marsalis makes music
Wynton Marsalis, top left, plays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on Saturday at the Lincoln Center.
The Fort Collins Coloradoan |
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Poudre fest aims to keep canyon sites open
Families, music, food and boaters lined the riverbank Saturday afternoon at the 22nd annual Poudre River Fest.
The Fort Collins Coloradoan |
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Loveland’s SummerFest in the Rockies entertains young and old By Anya Semenoff Loveland Reporter-Herald
Amid rocking music, gunning car engines and exchanges between vendor and customer, a small chug and blaring whistle announced the departure of Bill Tevlin. “All aboard! Hurry, hurry, we only have a few choice seats left,” Tevlin said.
Loveland Reporter-Herald |
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Howard Street becomes a car show
HIBBING — ‘To everything, turn, turn, turn,” the Byrds’ music resonated. ‘There is a season, turn, turn, turn. And a time — for every purpose — under heaven.’
Hibbing Daily Tribune |
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Prelude to the music
Kevin Vilkin, 18 and fresh from high school in Reno, Nev., stood next to his car at a trail leading into Wyoming's Wind River Range. He was preparing his backpack for two nights in the wilderness, but Vilkin was already in the groove for the inaugural Rothbury Festival, which waited in Michigan at the far end of a summer road ...
Boston Globe |
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Whale of a city
DISTANCE FROM BOSTON: 112 miles POPULATION: 25,671 WEBSITES: newlondonmainstreet.org, ci.new-london.ct.us ODD FACT: Eugene O'Neill, the country's only Nobel-prize-winning playwright, spent his early summers in New London, where he later wrote stories and poetry for The New London Telegraph. The story of modern-day New London can be seen in Bank Street, not far from the mouth of the Thames River, ...
Boston Globe |
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Brawl at Usher concert
R+B star Usher's concert in Nigeria in the early hours of Saturday morning was marred by violence when a fight broke out in the crowd.
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