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Profiles in Education
“Only connect,” E.M. Forster said in the epigraph to his novel, Howard’s End. Pat McKinley may or may not have read the book (heaven knows where she would find the time), but, through her work and her music, she seems to take the art of connecting to new heights.
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Music/Theater
Opera New Jersey continued its very busy summer season this past weekend with continued performances of La Traviata and La Cenerentola , as well as opening a third production, Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow . Friday night’s opening in McCarter’s Berlind Theatre, presented in English with English supertitles, certainly made the most of an operetta that may be just inherently a bit too long and ...
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Angola: Musicians Pay Homage to Teta Lando
Angolan musicians gathered this Wednesday morning at the main pavilion of Cidadela stadium, in Luanda, where in the presence of the Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, they paid tribute to the late singer Teta Lando.
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Vishals Salute music album from 27th July
Vishal and Nayantara star in Salute and the director of the film is Rajashekar. The music album for this movie is releasing on the 27th of this month. Vikram Krishna is producing the film under the GK Film Corporation banner.
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Viola A. Kostlan
Services were held for Viola A. Kostlan, 84, of Tyndall July 19 at the Tyndall Presbyterian Church with Pastor Bill Van Gerpen officiating. Music was provided by Glee Deutscher, organist; congregations singing and special music by Bob Rueb and Joyce Svanda.
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Front Page
The Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitors Bureau (PRCVB) recently announced that the organization had been approved for funding by the 2008 Destination Marketing Organization Cooperative Marketing Grant Program provided by the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Travel and Tourism.
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Gatekeeper of the MP3 blogosphere
Anthony Volodkin couldn't raise any money three years ago when he launched the Hype Machine, a digital music startup.
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Universal sued by angry mother over YouTube video removal
An angry mom has decided to go to the courts after Universal has demanded a YouTube video of her son dancing be removed from the popular site. The reason for the take down demand by Universal? The son was dancing to the Prince song Let’s go crazy for a whole 30 seconds. The mother, Stephanie Lenz, was [...]
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One-night concert takes the place of Trinity Tribal Stomp
Wildfire has canceled the 15th annual Trinity Tribal Stomp set for Junction City, but a new one-night concert will give people a chance to dance.
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Carey, Timberlake among Fashion Rocks performers
The Associated Press NEW YORK Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and Rihanna will perform at the fifth annual Fashion Rocks concert celebrating the relationship between music and fashion. The event will be held Sept. 5 at Radio City Music Hall, and will air in a two-hour special on CBS the following night. Proceeds will benefit Stand Up to Cancer, a program established by the ...
The Myrtle Beach Sun News |
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So many festivals, so little time
Allow me to open with the following fabricated statistic: This city has more festivals per capita than any other on the face of the earth. The question is, why do we need all of them?
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Getting it honest
By KAREN CAMPBELL Staff Writer Country music star Aaron Tippin is warning fans they better fasten their seat belts as they’re in store for a high energy show when he performs at the Shelby County Fair this week.
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Midtown restaurant offers tour of Japanese, Korean cuisine
by Lynn Williams maindish@baltimoreguide.com The good news: my daughter is in Hawaii, singing with the Children’s Chorus of Maryland in the Pacific Rim Children’s Chorus Festival. The bad news: I didn’t get to go with her. But I did get to go to lunch at Aloha Tokyo, a new restaurant named for the Hawaiian word for hello, goodbye, and [...]
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Upcoming ethnic festivals
Ready for some cultural diversity? Nothing says summer like the ethnic festivals of Baltimore. And just in time, the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has released a list of upcoming ethnic celebrations. Note: To add a festival to the Baltimore Guide’s calendar, send to The Baltimore Guide at 526 S. Conkling Street, Baltimore, [...]
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NYC BLOG: Jim Jones - Still A Character, Still Running His Mouth
Written By SOHH Reckless "I come in the studio, I get sky high, I fall asleep- fall into a drug-induced sleep, and wake up with a whole song."-- Jim Jones
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Broadway Cabaret Fest to Include Lerner/Loewe Tribute, Wilkinson Evening, Broadway Originals
The Fourth Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, created by Scott Siegel, will be presented at Town Hall in Manhattan Oct. 17-19.
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Angels Cancels Out-of-Town Tryout; Broadway Schedule Unaffected
The out-of-town tryout of the new musical Angels — scheduled for Aug. 29-Sept. 13 at The Strand Theatre in Shreveport, LA — has been canceled.
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Baltimore Symphony is calling all Deadheads
BALTIMORE — When the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra warms up a week from Friday, the musicians will be clad in their usual summer attire: White dinner jackets and bow ties for the men, white tops and black skirts or slacks for the women.
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Hoochie Cootchie Men at Carl Miller Thursday
Mountain Home's 2008 Summer Concert Series continues July 31 featuring the Hoochie Coochie Men as the second concert in the summer series.
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This Week in Jazz
Stanley Jordan Tonight, check out local MC Christylez Bacon at Strathmore 's outdoor summer concert series. The first hip-hop artist to be featured as a Strathmore Artist-in-Residence, Christylez's backing band includes some of the area's top young jazz and classical musicians. 7 p.m. Free Local jazz/soul singer Kenny Wesley will be performing Thursday night at Twins Jazz . ...
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Stampeders' outdoor concert may be first of many
Sunset Pub owner Joey Hattie figures a thousand people will easily fit ?out back' at his tavern in Conway, and he's convinced the Stampeders have just the act to draw music fans to Digby for their Aug...
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Beck Center's "Altar Boyz" picks up where "Jersey Boys" left off: Tony Brown theater review
The Boys have left the building, but the Boyz are back in town. On the same weekend - last weekend - that the national tour of the hit Broadway musical "Jersey Boys" played its final, record-breaking performances at PlayhouseSquare's State Theatre, the off-Broadway smash "Altar Boyz" opened at the Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood.
The Plain Dealer |
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Please stop the music, my ears hurt
After 40 years and 1500 concerts, Joe Queenan is finally ready to say the unsayable: new classical music is absolute torture - and its fans have no reason to be so smug.
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Jury convicts S.F. rapper in fatal shooting of rival
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. Andre "Mac Minister" Dow, 37, faces life in prison after being convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the May 2005 killings of 24-year-old Anthony "Fat Tone"
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New Music: Bikini: "1234" (Feist cover) [MP3/Stream]
Just when you thought you never needed to hear " 1234 " again, here we are: Bikini season. This string- and banjo-decorated song of regret from Feist 's fantastic 2007 LP The Reminder has fallen away from the folk-pop tree before (like an Apple, you know?) through remixes by the likes of Van She and Boyz Noize . Montreal duo Bikini, who have a show coming up in Stockholm ...
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