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Music/Theater
To audiences of a certain age, to mention Noel Coward is to evoke images of a man and a collection of plays that epitomize urbane sophistication, elegance, and dazzlingly clever dialogue.
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Google Launches Free Music Download Service in China
Google has launched a free music downloading service in China which lets users download licensed songs, which will be supplied by music companies in exchange for advertising revenue. How much cooler can you get than Google and free music downloads? Enter NBA star and Chinese National Yao Ming, who cofounded the site Top100.cn, where the downloads [...]
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Ruth Louise Plum
Ruth Louise Plum (née Snyder), 98, of Princeton, died July 17 peacefully at home. She had been an organist and music teacher in Princeton for more than 50 years.
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Just a Minute With: Stone Roses' Ian Brown
Ian Brown was lead singer of Manchester-based indie band the Stone Roses, which formed in 1984 and are considered one of the pioneers of the northern English city's "Madchester" music scene.
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Bwarie, Gouveia, Kushnier and Rannells Will Star in Toronto Engagement of Jersey Boys
Casting has been announced for the upcoming Toronto engagement of Jersey Boys, which is part of the North American tour of the Tony-winning musical about Frank Valli and the Four Seasons.
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The Financial Sky is Falling. Do Your Children Have an Umbrella?
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.----Countless families are drowning in credit card debt, losing their homes to foreclosure, struggling with skyrocketing gas and food prices and watching their retirement accounts decline in value.
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Great River Shakespeare Festival announces sonnet winners
When Winona’s Poet Laureate James Armstrong proposed a citywide sonnet contest, he wasn’t sure he’d have enough entries to give away prizes. After all, it is a 400-year-old poetry form that may not be as familiar to the community as he’d like fit to be.
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GHS student wins first place at Boston competition
His choice of the guitar as his instrument of choice was a natural one for Trongone, who watched his Dad and learned from his self taught mentor.
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Disaster-relief benefit festival goes bust
CLEAR LAKE, Iowa -- A music festival designed to benefit victims of this year's natural disasters wound up with more bands than fans. The "Better Than A Dream" music festival began last Friday and ended Monday. More than 60 bands pl
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Music Review: Jack Ingram - This Is It
Another must-have country CD. I love Jack Ingram. I just do. His music is so beautiful and amazing. His new CD This Is It is another must-have country CD. The album has just captured my heart and he puts so much emotion into his singing. The guy should really been running Nashville at this point. I think I can just sit here for hours and hours and listen to his voice. He is...
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Music Review: Lauren Harris - Calm Before The Storm
You can't just get up on stage at a huge festival no matter who your dad is ! This girl rocks. The music industry moves quickly and you either have to be up and ready to rock or lose that chance and let someone else “Steal Your Fire”. One such moment came when legendary performer and producer Russ Ballard strolled into a Lauren Harris gig back in 2005, he quickly decided to invite her into the ...
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Music Review: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Jimi Hendrix: Chapter 1. Are You Experienced? Two things happened to me in 1967. First, I worked at a summer camp and one of the female staff members introduced me to folk music via Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Phil Ochs. Later that same year, I traveled into New York City with a friend to take in a concert at a small club. Let me go on record by saying that I would have never let one of my 17... ...
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Rough road leads York singer to original blues show
A black girl from the projects who sang rock; that was little Rosemary Hudson. Perceived as such, Hudson says she just didn't quite fit in with her peers.
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Norman Lebrecht on shifting sound worlds
Twenty years ago, I got taken to a convention of music critics in Washington DC. Isaac Stern depped as keynote speaker for a sick Lenny Bernstein and the atmosphere was chummy and convivial until the session was thrown open to the floor and the gripes began flowing thick and fast.
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Poll: One-Fifth Of Brits Wish They Could Be Musicians
"In a new poll, 20% of those surveyed said that they would love to trade their jobs for a gig in the music biz, and 50% complained that in school there was not enough information about music careers."
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Feist in concert at Deer Lake: 10,000 backup singers rule
Leslie Feist is heralded worldwide for her whispery vocals. People should start shouting about her guitar playing. It keeps getting overlooked in all the hype and it shouldn't.
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Disney mum on why kids’ concert suddenly canceled
EAST HARTFORD — Less than 24 hours before a two-day concert series was set to start at Rentschler Field on Tuesday, ticket-holding parents received an e-mail saying Disney’s Block Party Tour had been canceled due to “unforeseen circumstances.”
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Festival-goer dies as packed van suffers blowout
MUSKEGON TWP. -- A 56-year-old Washington state woman was killed in Tuesday's rollover accident that involved a passenger van carrying 15 people to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in Oceana County.
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Free Music Teacher Training Program Sept. 9th and 10th at the Carlsbad and Encinitas Libraries, Hosted by Neil Moore ...
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Police guitarist: 'We're the same three (jerks) we always were'
NEW YORK (AP) -- During a lengthy reunion tour that concludes Thursday, The Police didn't necessarily resolve the conflicts that blew apart one of rock's most successful groups nearly 25 years ago.
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Jacqueline Taylor appointed managing director of Apollo's Fire
Jacqueline Taylor, former executive director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, has been appointed to the new position of managing director of Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra.
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Whaling Museum to hold fundraiser
NEW BEDFORD — The New Bedford Whaling Museum is offering the tops in fun, music and food at its annual fund-raiser that supports the free programming the Museum provides each year to more than 30,000 children and adults.
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Holy Family Holy Name plans Jazz Night
NEW BEDFORD — Holy Family Holy Name is excited to announce their first Jazz Night to benefit the educational programs at Holy Family Holy Name School.
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Zvue's Custom Elvis Theme PMP Comes with Pre-Loaded Presley Vids [Elvis]
Screw the Journey-themed PMP, this custom Zvue player has real music aboard: from Mr Presley himself. Ten video clips to be precise, and Elvis's signature and photo engraved on the back shell. Part...
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Noon-time chamber music concerts are a very good thing. They’re relatively informal, they’re untroubled by intermissions, and they set the audience free in plenty of time for a lovely lunch. The music can be pretty good too.
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