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Frieze art fair
It's the ultimate fretboard fantasy: a mass gathering of guitarists for an art-rock symphony. Tom Hughes signed up immediately - but he had to learn to read music first.
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Building the LHC has cost the world's taxpayers more than £5bn so far. Lawrence Krauss explains why understanding particle collisions is, like great art, music or literature, a vital part of human culture
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One-time Cypriot prodigy still floating on music
If you've ever wondered what preoccupies the mind of a musical prodigy, Michalakis Yiasemides doesn't mind telling you that it's music, music and only more music.
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Uganda: Vanessa Williams in Kampala
Vanessa Williams is known as the first black Miss America, a title that she was forced to relinquish. Fortunately, she was able to overcome the controversy and parlay it into a successful music and movie career.
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Kids compete to perform at the House of Blues
A girl from Westchester had her dream come true when she was chosen to sing live, on stage, at the House of Blues in Chicago.
Brookfield Suburban Life |
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Feature: 'Towards More Meaningful Games: A Multidisciplinary Approach'
In this thought-provoking design piece, writer Sande Chen (The Witcher) takes a look at how to ratchet up emotional intensity - through narrative design, visuals, and music - to create more meaningful games. According to game designer and production consultant Sheri Graner Ray, building games with a compelling narrative requires interdisciplinary teams with writers or narrative designers ...
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Solvay: Nationals rev up economy
More than hot rods rolled into the area last weekend for the 9th Annual DuPont Hot Hues Syracuse Nationals - organizers estimated thousands of spectators, participants and vendors
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Solvay: "The doing's are coming just fine"
A few changes will be apparent this year to annual Solvay Summer Festival visitors, said Anthony Alberti, who is helping to organize the event. The Kiddie Parade has been moved
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Mad Men: Music from the series Vol. 1
ARTISTS: 1960 period tracks for the likes of Vic Damone, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, The McGuire Sisters, Bobby Vinton and other vintage performers.
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BSkyB, Universal Form JV To Launch Subscription Music Service
Pretty soon, everybody will be offering a subscription music service. Latest is UK satcaster and ISP BSkyB (NYSE: BSY), 39 percent owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). it's secured Universal's Total Music repertoire (which includes Amy Winehouse) for a new launch that will allow unlimited MP3 downloading and on-demand streaming for a monthly subscription in the UK and Ireland. And it's starting a ...
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Billboard.com -- Top Stars Step Up For Fashion Rocks Show
Some of the biggest names in music, including Beyonce, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Mariah Carey and Justin Timberlake, have signed on for the fifth Fashion Rocks concert, to be held Sept. 5 at New York's Radio City Music Hall and broadcast four days later by CBS.
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German Embassy organizes eighth edition of “Splendors of Universal Music” concert
The open air concert “Spendors of Universal Music” will take place at the Summer Theater in Valea Morilor Park in Chisinau on July 27. The concert became traditional for Moldova. It is organized the eighth consecutive year with the support of the German Embassy and the National Philharmonic. This year’s concert will include works by Strauss, Mozart, Wagner, Haciaturian, Bizet, Verdi and by the ...
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Gibson creates its own island on Second Life
Legendary guitar maker Gibson has created its own island in Second Life, making it the first major music manufacturer to do so.
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A rocker remembered: Second annual fundraiser honors Brad Delp
It was a large, mostly Danvers-based crowd that gathered in Beverly Saturday night for a concert to celebrate and honor Brad Delp, while also raising money for a scholarship fund in his name. Friends, family and former classmates are trying to ensure that his legend lives on through the Brad Delp Memorial Scholarship Fund, which was set up shortly after the singer passed away.
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Hot summer nights
Main Street Odessa and the Odessa Council for the Arts and Humanities are continuing to pair together to bring Odessa some "Hot Summer Nights With Cool Music."
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Boynton Beach-area man wins Big-Mac song contest
Jason Harper's remix of the decades-old Big Mac chant landed him in the Big Time.
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Rapper convicted in Mac Dre-related slaying
A Las Vegas jury has found a San Francisco rap music figure guilty of slaying a Kansas City rival in what authorities called a West Coast versus Midwest rap war sparked by the shooting of Vallejo-bred rapper Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks.
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Musicians converge for festival in Weed
The peaceful streets of Weed were filled with the music of bass and acoustical guitars, mandolins and violins or "fiddles" this weekend during the 13th Annual Bluegrass Festival.
Alamogordo Daily News |
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BSkyB to launch online subscription music service
Tue 22 Jul, 2008 14:10
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Freddie Portelli versus St. Anne
Residents of Marsascala may have to choose between 'sacred' brass bands and the 'profane' sounds of the rock'n roll music of Freddie Portelli. Malta's answer to Elvis, Freddie Portelli has become embroiled in a row between the Marsascala local council and the Parish Church in the same locality.
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Offensive music leads to charges
A 44-year-old woman faces charges after residents at a Fairbairn Street apartment complex were subjected to a continous blast of “vulgar and offensive” music, city police said Tuesday. Police said they received several complaints about loud music coming from an apartment at 10:03 p.m. Sunday. [...]
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Creative camp keeps children coming back
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Aspiring artists, actors, dancers and musicians have been tuning up their skills at West Virginia State University during the 16th annual Charleston Stage Company Summer Arts Camp.Head counselor April Richardson has been aboard for six
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Music & Gigs
One of Northern Ireland’s best loved record stores is back in business after an absence of 15 years.
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CNMI students excel in drama competition
Marianas High School sophomore Kyoung Min Park won second place in the costume design competition at the 2008 International Thespian Festival. Kagman High school sophomore Miki Nadia Dela Cruz finished in the Top 10 in solo musical theatre.
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Lou Pearlman moved to federal prison
Former music mogul Lou Pearlman was moved out of the Orange County Jail early Tuesday so he could begin serving his 25-year federal prison term, jail officials said.
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