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Daily News, music festival search for talented teens
The Daily News is asking readers to submit the names and qualifications of exceptionally talented Alaska teenagers for attention and prizes. The field is open until May 18, so if you know of a young musician, artist, dancer or thespian who might qualify, head online to adn.com/teentalent for details.
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Pierre Bidondo says he's trying to find the right word to describe the music he makes with his brother Craig. With its mix of country, flamenco, reggae and blues, he has taken to calling it "world jazz."
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Elman, 67, said nobody knew much about commodities when Noble was established. The company moved its stock listing in 1997 to Singapore from Hong Kong, where they felt they had not been understood and appreciated.
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No pity party for former Oregon star
Dennis Dixon was not drafted Saturday, but that hasn't taken away from his larger achievements.
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Summer school’s rich history still alive
Rick Cepella is looking forward to summer in Penticton. And it’s not because of the city’s famous Peach Festival, Elvis festival or beach cruise. It’s the Okanagan School of the Arts’ Summer Session that draws this artist to the Peach City.
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Departing large in Mahler's Eighth
Does size matter in Mahler? Mahler's Symphony No. 8, subtitled "Symphony of a Thousand" and one of the great successes in the composer's lifetime, inevitably has an aura of gargantuanism, even though credible performances are possible with a mere 300 musicians.
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Roll in the barrel; roll out Beethoven
Lidia Kaminska is not like most musicians. For one thing, her instrument is so rarefied she has to escort it back to its birthplace in Italy every year or so to be tuned.
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Art of the Wyeth women
GREENVILLE -- She picked a dead leaf off the ground and was fascinated. The patterns of veins, the upturned edges, its very shape -- it all mesmerized her.
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THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS
CLASSICAL MUSIC
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Miguel Zenón feels his way to jazz Nirvana
Saxophonist Miguel Zenón has made his mark in jazz by translating the traditional Afro-Caribbean rhythms in his head into freer forms of expression. On his 2005 album, "Jíbaro" (Marsalis Music), he used the "feel" of traditional Puerto Rican music as a creative space to play a kind of jazz so innovative that he won Best New Artist in a JazzTimes poll. The New Yorker's new album, "Awake," ...
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Judgement at Nuremberg
(190 mins, No Rating, 1961). Less is more at the 51st annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Noise Pop celebrates its sweet sixteen with expanded coverage of art, film, comedy, and a whole lot of noise. A look at how the music fests's indie empire has grown.
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Bebe Barron, 82; scored the science fiction film 'Forbidden Planet'
Bebe Barron, a pioneering composer who started manipulating sounds after receiving a tape recorder as a wedding present and later scored the 1956 science-fiction film "Forbidden Planet," the first full-length feature to use only electronic music, has died. She was 82.
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Sandra Fay: Event recognizes contributions to Plano arts community
Items for Faybles may be phoned or faxed to Sandra Fay at 972-422-5834 or e-mailed to dsfay@aol.com. Founding Arts of Collin County chair Robbie Robinson and his wife, Lynore , are honorary chairs of For the Love of Art being hosted by ArtCentre of Plano and Park Place Lexus Saturday.
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Prince to headline Coachella music festival in California
INDIO, Calif. - Purple rain was to fall in the desert Saturday night when Prince was scheduled to play his much-anticipated headlining performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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CD REVIEWS: SCHOENBERG/SIBELIUS - Classical
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) This vibrant release by violinist Hilary Hahn is at once a performance and a polemical assertion, and both are persuasive. By pairing Schoenberg's potentially daunting Violin Concerto (1935-6) with the familiar Sibelius Violin...
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Talk of the Town April 24, 2008
The City of Milpitas is one of 152 cities in California certified as a Tree City USA by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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LITERARY GUIDE
TODAY Howard Fineman Discusses "The Thirteen American Arguments." 7 p.m. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. (415) 927-0960. Clarence B. Jones Discusses "What Would Martin Say?" Go to Web site to register. 2 p.m. Museum of the African Diaspora,...
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Live Music
Darren Johnston Quintet The Darren Johnston Quintet will provide a lecture and concert of "playful, adventuresome, and swinging music." The quintet features Ben Goldberg on clarinet, Sheldon Brown on tenor sax and bass clarinet, Devin Hoff on bass and Smith Dobson V on drums and vibraphone.
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The new campus crib
On the hilltop campus, where a sleek music center recently opened and a state-of-the-art science building is planned, a group of freshmen fear that Tufts University is in danger of being "outclassed." The problem, as documented in a 12-page student critique delivered to administration officials last month, is that dormitory common rooms are dreary spaces with carpets that "clash with ...
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Bizarre account of S.F. eviction battle
One day in August 2006, Nicole Macy met with a San Francisco building official to talk about the damage that a small fire had caused to the South of Market apartment building she and her husband owned. She also mentioned she wanted to get rid of a stubborn...
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Churches becoming more flexible to foster faith
They're loosening up and innovating in a drive to gain and maintain members, particularly youths. If you had driven past First Baptist Church East End in Newport News on a Sunday morning 15 to 20 years ago, you would have seen a procession of well-dressed worshippers who could put on a fashion show.
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THIS WEEK
S ART BABY BLUES Those who read Baby Blues on The Chronicle's Comics page know why this strip is one of the most popular in the world - it captures some of the nuttiness of parenting and its wit is communicated synergistically by Jerry Scott's wry dialogue...
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She's trying not to be the Immaterial Girl
Critical Eye Once upon a time, there was a pop goddess named Madonna who ruled the radio airwaves and Billboard charts with her beyond-the-curve music. She often thrilled and sometimes shocked millions with a sound and image that drastically morphed with each album release. But the inevitable happened: Madonna grew older.
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FRESH
DANCE Izzie Awards for achievements in Bay Area dance, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater (Mon.). MOVIES Opening Wednesday: Inkheart (PG), Eliza Bennett, Brendan Fraser. Opening Friday: Dhamma Brothers (not rated), documentary. Dark Matter (R), Liu Ye,...
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Anguish lingers over lost towns
At the stroke of midnight, many in the crowd at Enfield Town Hall that evening 70 years ago wept openly as McEnelly's Orchestra started to play "Auld Lang Syne."
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