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Songwriter Don Schlitz shows off his musical theater chops with 'Tom Sawyer'
Sure, songwriter Don Schlitz has a roster of chart-topping hits as long as his arm. But make no mistake; just 'cause he looks like a hard worker on paper doesn't mean he still wouldn't rather find someone else to paint his fence.
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Sugarland hits its stride
Sugarland's new album, Love on the Inside,is aptly titled. Not just because there are a lot of love songs inside the package, but also because those dozen songs examine love from the inside out.
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MUSIC ON TV
WHO Black Kids
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JOHN MELLENCAMP, Life, Death, Love and Freedom
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David Berman moves his Silver Jews further out of hiding with 'Lookout Mountain'
In the nine years that he's called Nashville home, David Berman, leader of indie-rock group Silver Jews, has been one of Music City's most critically celebrated singer-songwriters even though many Nashvillians have never heard of him, or listened to his work.
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Schubert a hit at Mozart Festival
ESSEX -- Jean-Claude Pennetier, the first of five international pianists featured at this year's Vermont Mozart Festival, showed a real affinity for Schubert, with a refined virtuosity and an intimate lyricism, Friday at the Champlain Valley Exposition North. Moved from Vergennes' Basin Harbor Resort because of rain, the all-Schubert program featured chamber music as well solo piano works. ... - ...
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dotComments: teens, tunes and booze
Underage drinking at area outdoor concerts, and the resulting arrests, aroused online reader of The Aspen Times last week.
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Kimya Dawson to bring her reassuring tunes to the neighborhood
An interview with Kimya Dawson, who made headlines after her music landed on the soundtrack of the indie hit "Juno." This summer, Dawson is performing at the Capitol Hill Block Party, touring with Ani DiFranco and in talks to work with "Sesame Street."
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Tonight: New Riders play Carbondale
CARBONDALE - Music has been in a constant state of evolution since the days of rocks and sticks, but probably no more so than the late 1960s, when musicians began mixing the predominant rock-n-roll sounds of the era with different musical styles...
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A critical look at Oregon Shakespeare Festival's summer-fall lineup
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland has on its summer roster "Othello," "Our Town" and "The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler," plus seven other plays. Reviews by Misha Berson of The Seattle Times.
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World of entertainment: Russian clown brings a hot winter fantasy to Arsht Center
Remember Let It Snow? The vintage Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn tune conjures a wintry frozen world outside, a warmly cozy one inside. Slava's Snowshow, which will begin previews at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, flips that script.
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Wildlife Center to host endowment fundraiser
The California Wildlife Center will host a fundraiser, "Way Wild," from noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 10 at Gull's Way Estate, 26800 Pacific Coast Highway, in honor of the organization's 10th anniversary.
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German Love Parade festival draws dancing crowd
BERLIN — More than 1.5 million revelers danced through the streets of the western German city of Dortmund on Saturday at the annual Love Parade techno music festival.
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Carmel Bach Festival: 150 events
Carmel by the Sea has some of the priciest real estate around, notoriously fickle weather and fewer public parking spaces than a typical 7-Eleven, but if you're a classical music lover, none of that matters: Carmel has got your Bach. The Carmel Bach Festival,...
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'Miami Libre': Original Miami production captures the Cuban immigrant life
he brightly lit rehearsal studio at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is a long way from a Havana carnival, but the twisting Cuban dancers shaking the room with sweat-inducing batidora (the supersonic Cuban hip vibration) and screams of agua! and asesina! are doing their best to bring one to life.
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Event Calendar this week
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Charles Sawtelle Gnu Mountain Jam, named for the late Hot Rize guitarist, with an eclectic musical lineup including Grammy-nominated banjo player Tony Trischka.
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Bee current
It's not Ruby and the Romantics – it's even older music as the American Bach Soloists perform works by Ludwig van Beethoven (String Quartet No. 3 in D Major), Felix Mendelssohn (String Quartet No. 1 in E Flat Major, Theme & Variations in E Major and Scherzo in A Minor) and Franz Schubert (Quartettsatz in C Minor). "Barack Obama" by Erika Hughes Comedian Will Durst performs on ...
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Onstage: Groomed to star
Actor Mark Jacoby is no stranger to bloody musical horrors. Nor is he shy about confronting certain terrors. Mark Jacoby rehearses the title role of the Music Circus' "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," which opens Tuesday. Jacoby earned a 2005 Tony nomination for his role as Judge Turpin in a Broadway production of the musical. Carolann M. Sanita is Johanna and Max ...
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Media's effect on teen behavior debated
Country songs talk about teenagers having sex as a rite of passage. Rap songs, highly popular with teenage listeners, talk about sex in violent and degrading terms. Rock songs extoll the excitement of young love. "We were barely 17 and we were barely dressed," goes the Meatloaf song Paradise by the dashboard light.
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Tough acts to follow
One of the most let's just say interesting and leave it at that concerts I have ever been to featured Neil Young at Saratoga Performing Arts Center sometime in the 1990s. Now, I've seen Young tons of times, and this show, from what I can remember, was pretty standard - solid, great guitar solos, all the classics.
Poughkeepsie Journal |
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TV critics bonkers for 'Mad Men'
Members of the Television Critics Association announced their choices for this season's best in television at the 24th annual TCA awards Saturday night in Beverly Hills, and they showed lots of love for AMC's "Mad Men." Urs Flueeler / Keystone THE HILLS ARE ALIVE American singer Erykah Badu performs on stage during a music festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, late Friday. It was the first ...
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You'll get a bang out of Bang On a Can
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- No one was actually banging on a can, but drummer David Cossin was flailing away on a bunch of traditional Balinese gongs during the opening suite of music from "ShadowBang," and by the end of the evening's program pianist Ning Yu was dragging a heavy metal chain across the strings inside her Baldwin grand.Back for their seventh annual Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, ...
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Arts
— Ages 3 and up. Daily. Afternoons. Aug. 25-May 22. $9 per hour. Program open to students with and without disabilities. Classes taught in ceramics, visual arts, drama, dance and music.
Arizona Daily Star |
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Warwick's tone, phrasing shows no aging
SCHENECTADY -- When composer Burt Bacharach hired a relatively unknown backing vocalist named Dionne Warwick to sing on his demonstration recordings he had no idea he was launching a legend. Warwick quickly became Bacharach and lyricist Hal David's premier interpreter, and together the trio took song after song to the top of the pop charts, with many becoming certifiable classics along the ...
Albany Times Union |
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New place, old games
After presiding over the "mountain" for 23 years, many folks' favorite summer festival takes place next weekend in Painesville Township. The Little Mountain Heritage Festival will, however, keep its name to help preserve its identity as the premier event of the Lake County Historical Society.
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