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Style Show is multi-generational affair, full of variety
Photo By Ed Hall Jr./The Review Erin Stone shows off an evening gown during the formal wear portion of the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival Style Show and Luncheon held Wednesday at Mount Union College’s Hoover-Price Campus Center.
The Alliance Review |
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Rock Music Museum Announces N.Y. Branch
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is coming to New York, with the Cleveland institution set to open its first museum annex in the city in November. Alongside the singer Billy Joel, the music industry executive Clive Davis, and Bruce Springsteen's first car, a yellow 1957 Chevrolet convertible with orange flames painted on the hood, Mayor Bloomberg announced the opening yesterday outside ...
The New York Sun |
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Dudamel Represents A Challenge To Classical Music
"Conductor Gustavo Dudamel, the product of an extraordinary Venezuelan music education system, is not only the hottest property in classical music at the moment, he also provides its chief source of hope.
Arts Journal |
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It's a big weekend for free music
The Spin Doctors show at Crown Center (see Nightlife) isn’t the only free music in the city this weekend. Here are some of the other options (note that all schedules are subject to change):
The Kansas City Star |
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New musical charms with originality
The musical with the year's most unusual name, [title of show], may seem an unlikely entry into the big scale Broadway scene, but it is a charming and original creation that will really satisfy those most in love with the Broadway musical as an art form.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Summer Singers do Beethoven
The 2008 Summer Singers are celebrating their 10th season with a program featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor (which includes “Ode to Joy”) with more than 120 singers.
The Kansas City Star |
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JAZZTOWN New jazz Order finds a home at Harling's
It’s a Tuesday night at Harling’s in midtown, and it’s hard to pay attention to the game on TV. Because at the other end of the room, a big band is powering through some old tune in a new way. Or maybe it’s a new tune.
The Kansas City Star |
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Glover wants Shreveport to become music and entertainment mecca
Mayor Cedric Glover wants Shreveport to get "N-Sync". And he wants all musicians in the area to help make it happen. Mayor Glover held a town hall meeting Wednesday night for local musicians and music lovers. He welcomed ideas on how to transform Shreveport into a music and entertainment mecca.
KTBS Shreveport |
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Spector lawyers want a stay in murder trial
Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector asked a California judge on Wednesday for an indefinite stay of the music producer's murder retrial. They hope to appeal the case on double jeopardy grounds.
MSNBC |
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Chrissie Hynde breaks up concrete
Rock hall inductee, restaurant owner, singer- songwriter, Akron native Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders are gearing up for the Sept. 23 release of an album dubbed Break Up the Concrete (she's talking to you, Akron Innerbelt). Hynde might not drive a car or be particularly fond of ''progress'' when it comes to the urbanization of her hometown, but she ain't no fool.
Akron Beacon Journal |
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POPULAR MUSIC 14th annu...
POPULAR MUSIC 14th annual Coffeehouse Jam — 2 p.m. today, Rehm Pavilion, Orr Park, High Street, Orrville. Free.
Akron Beacon Journal |
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MacProVideo offers Sibelius video tutorial
MacProVideo has released a new tutorial for users of Sibelius music notation software.
Macworld |
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Don Helms, 81; steel guitarist for Hank Williams
Don Helms, the steel guitarist whose aching instrumental cry gave musical voice to the anguish and the joy in virtually all the key recordings by country music titan Hank Williams, died Monday in Nashville, apparently of a heart attack. He was 81.
Los Angeles Times |
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Phil Spector's Lawyers Want Stay In Murder Trial
Phil Spector's lawyers have asked a Los Angeles judge for an indefinite stay of the music producer's murder retrial so they can appeal the case on double jeopardy grounds. Defense attorneys Dennis Riordan and Doron Weinberg want an assurance that prosecutors will not ask jurors to convict Spector on lesser offenses of voluntary or involuntary manslaughter.
CBS 2 Los Angeles |
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What do ringtones say about a person?
Berlin - A cell phone's ringtone can be just about anything. It can imitate the ring of an old-fashioned telephone, reproduce a snappy 1980s pop song or even sound like a frog ribbeting. But in particular social situations it's best to play it safe w...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Trumbull zoners stop music at Marisa's
TRUMBULL — Don't expect Marisa's Ristorante to throw a party for the Zoning Board of Appeals.By a 3-2 vote, the panel has affectively told the establishment to go back to basic business at its
Connecticut Post |
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Arts funding cuts no music to our ears: promoters
East Coast music promoters say federal funding cuts to arts and cultural programs could be the death knell to the local music industry.
CBC Nova Scotia |
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Ready for school, Rockingham County?
Celebrate the end of summer vacation and get ready for the new academic year with some of this weekend’s events.
Danville Register & Bee |
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Reality TV runner-up to be understudy in Sound of Music
Janna Polzin may have been runner-up in the CBC reality TV contest How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, but she will still take to the stage as Maria in The Sound of Music.
CBC |
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Musical mixture being offered at Summer Music Festival '08
TRURO — This weekend’s Summer Music Festival in Truro is one of the provincial events kicking off the Wild Blueberry Harvest Festival.
The Truro Daily News |
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Stream Your Music Library to a Stereo with Squeezebox
In the old days, the closest you would get to streaming your music from one room to another would be to turn the volume all the way to 11. These days, we have devices like Squeezebox to network your music collection and make it accessible to any stereo in the house.
Wired News |
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Will the Jonas Brothers Top Coldplay In First Week Album Sales?
In my review of A Little Bit Longer, I suggested that the Jonas Brothers may well have unleashed the top pop-rock album of the year so far. Sales figures...
About.com |
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Miss Guatemala is Miss Reina de la Costa Maya 2008
Opening night of the San Pedro International Costa Maya Festival started out perfectly on Thursday when attendance was excellent and excitement was high. Everyone awaited the grand beginning of the Reina de la Costa Maya International 2008 Pageant.
The San Pedro Sun |
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Boulder Fringe Festival brings in the quirky
Join the Fringe kick-off celebration featuring Denver's singer/cellist Ian Cooke jazz singer Heather Marie Philipp at the Boulder Theater at 6 p.m. tonight.
Colorado Daily |
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Night Out joins Jackson residents, service groups
JACKSON — The 2008 version of America's Night Out Against Crime surpassed all expectations. "Every year we try to expand it a little bit," said Jackson Police Sgt. John Convery, who organized the event this year and last.
Howell Tri Town News |
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