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'Scarlet Pimpernel' uneven in tone
Despite strong acting and visuals, College Light Opera Company production often makes jarring shifts in mood and music.
Cape Cod Times |
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Players span eras in chamber concert
Although only four instruments were represented in the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival concert Tuesday night, the compositions spanned the baroque, romantic and 20th-century periods.
Cape Cod Times |
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Community Day organizers shift into high gear
Last year many residents of the Village of Millbrook enjoyed Community Day, which saw store owners fill sidewalks with tables and stores with sales, but patrons of the event also enjoyed music and the annual fire department chicken barbeque.
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Arianna Huffington: HuffPost Goes Local: Introducing HuffPost Chicago
We are rolling out our first local version of The Huffington Post today. We've decided to start with Chicago because it's always been a great news town -- offering a vibrant mix of politics, sports, business, music, food, and urban life. HuffPost Chicago is part local news source, part resource guide, and part virtual soap box -- featuring a collection of bloggers who know and love Chicago, and ...
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Mistakes cost U.S. women's gymnastics
BEIJING -- Four years of anticipation came down to the floor exercise, on a blue mat with white lines, and as the music swelled, the crowd screamed and the TV cameras zoomed in, the American gymnasts stumbled.
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Tromboners put Stamps on new disc
EDWARDSVILLE - Two trombones lead the newly released compact disc, "Bad to the Bone," the collaborative work of local professional music men Brett Stamps and Jim Owens.
The Telegraph |
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How Time Flies 08/14/08
How Time Flies for August 14, 2008: 100 years ago Aug. 14, 1908: Old settlers gathered for their annual picnic yesterday at Christina Park, about two and a half miles from Ellsworth. Some of the aging pioneers brought historic memorabilia to show off. Dillon’s band, from Normal, provided the music.
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Life In The Balance
HARRISONBURG - Parents, guided by droves of curious children, make their way up three sets of bleachers neatly aligned in a row at the Rockingham County Fair.
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Third City Steak Feed gets a boost with raffle
Grand Island Northwest activities director Rocky Almond hopes a new addition revs up the annual Third City Athletic Booster Clubs Steak Feed. As part of Saturday's event at the Heartland Events Center, a raffle will be held for a Harley Davidson motorcycle that has been appraised at more than $32,000.
Grand Island Independent |
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Music Review: Jimi Hendrix - Live At Monterey
Jimi Hendrix: Chapter 9. Live At Monterey is a CD issued last year that presents Jimi Hendrix’ complete concert at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Hendrix was a star in England, but was an unknown artist in the United States. The audience at his performance had no idea that they were in for a music changing event as Hendrix, in about 43 minutes, changed the face of...
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Music Review: 50 Years Of Dave Brubeck - Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival (1958-2007)
He helped sell the whole idea of the festival, simply by playing his music. Another release in Concord's series of albums paying tribute to the Monterey Jazz Festival (previously: Cal Tjader) is one that fits me like a bespoke suit, because it features one of my favorites. Dave Brubeck. 50 Years Of Dave Brubeck - Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival (1958-2007) is exactly what you'd infer from ...
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Microsoft: Digital software distribution to surpass retail sales
David Gosen, vice president of strategic marketing for the Xbox and Xbox Live in Europe, threw a big one over the crowd that was listening to his speech at Microsoft UK Gamefest developer event: "There is no question digital will overtake physical. It happened in music and it will happen to our industry."
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Rock hall plans N.Y. annex
NEW YORK: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is going on the road to New York — the city that spawned hip-hop and gave Bob Dylan and the Ramones their start.
Akron Beacon Journal |
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Rock posters make splash
A h, youth. Everything is new; every idea, a revelation; every discovery, a movement. But every once in a while, in the process of rediscovering something old, something new and exciting is created.
Akron Beacon Journal |
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Festival in France helps Wales to shine on the world stage
The International Celtic Festival in Lorient just ended brought Wales together with other Celtic nations in a spirit of co-operation, says AM and Minister Andrew Davies
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Building towards a University of the Heads of the Valleys
The University of Glamorgan has an enviable track record of ground-breaking initiatives across Wales. In 2006 the university undertook a milestone merger with Merthyr Tydfil College, something that no other university in Wales has ever attempted. Two years on and the merger is giving learners in the Merthyr area a unique opportunity to study all the way from leaving school at 16 to completing ...
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Organ workshop planned for youth
VALPARAISO Middle and high school students interested in learning more about organ music and performance are invited to an October workshop sponsored by Valparaiso University’s chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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West Side Story
West Side Story is a musical about what happens when three geniuses write a musical. By Ted Hoover.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
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Concert at Taltree
The sounds of brass come to Taltree Arboretum and Gardens Sunday. The Northwest Indiana Symphony Brass Quintet will perform beginning at 3 p.m. The quintet consists of two trumpets, a French horn, a trombone, and a tuba. Covering all of the different range of voices, this program will include music by a variety of composers. Covering 500 years of musical composition, members of the quintet ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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Album Review: Marilyn Mazur—‘Elixir’
Someone once dubbed Miles Davis’s surviving sidemen “the Sons of Miles,” but where would that leave Marilyn Mazur, who played on the trumpeter’s arguably last great recording—“Aura,” and toured with him for nearly half a decade?
The Epoch Times |
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Listening for music, not gunfire
The Rev. William Terry isn't naive. He knows criminals won't come running when they hear about a gun-exchange program. But Horns for Guns is about more than turning in guns. It's about putting musical instruments into the hands of young people and teaching them to play.
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Music DVD Review: Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds 3-D Concert Movie
A vigorous, colourful concert movie captured in 3-D. Miley Cyrus comes out to play in broad, bold 3-D with the release of the Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds 3-D Concert Movie. There’s no question that the live concert sold out wherever it went, pulling in energized pre-teens and tolerant parents from across the United States. The next best thing to being there is to ...
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Bands battle for bragging rights
The votes have been counted and the lineup for the 2008 Haverhill Rocks 2008 on Saturday, Aug. 16. Performances begin at 1 p.m. with Plugg, followed by Furious George, Elyson, The Derelicts, Hysteria, Project 57, Mongrel and the 2007 champs, TripMynd.
The Haverhill Gazette |
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Weird Wednesdays Presents The Apple
The Apple will steal your soul! Weird Wednesdays Presents The Apple Wednesday, August 13th Alamo Drafthouse Downtown ( 320 E 6th Street ) 11:59pm, Free! [ info ] So, it is the middle of the week and you are just now leaving your bland, cubed-in day job, and you're thinking, "Man, I wish I had something rockin' to do tonight, you know, like a disco/spandex/musical/biblical allegory ...
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Around New Jersey
At 10 a.m., Motorhead, Misfits, Airbourne, Valient Thorr and Year Long Disaster, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at Roseland Ballroom, 239 W. 52nd St., Manhattan ($37) and 5 p.m. Sept. 21 at Stony Pony Outdoor Concert Series, Asbury Park ($35). Ticketmaster.
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