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A Rock Star’s New Fence Ruffles Feathers in Marin County
MAIN COUNTY (KRON ) - Frontman for Metallica James Hetfield is quickly learning that building a 300-foot-long fence along his Marin County property is not the way to befriend the locals.
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Animusic Takes Computer Animation Well Into Future
It's what musical performances of the future will look like if you were to maybe ask George Orwell or just about any 12-year-old. Animusic is arguably one of the most sophisticated computer-generated animations out right now – certainly one of the most sophisticated produced outside of Hollywood.
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Biography Dutch saxophonist Mischa van der Wekken (b. 1979) recorded his first album as a leader 'Momentum' early 2008. This features his international quintet, trumpetplayer Eric Vloeimans, and a suite he composed and arranged for saxophone quartet.
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Ice splendour
Disney’s High School Musical: The Ice Tour features a fusion of dances and songs inspired by the smash-hit TV musical.
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Noise control called to kindergarten disco
An Auckland kindergarten is flabbergasted after noise control officers turned up to a kids' disco where Bob the Builder music was apparently being played too loud.
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RIAA 'Elektra V. Barker' Case Is Settled
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Elektra v. Barker, one of the leading cases repudiating the RIAA's 'making available' theory, has been settled. Unlike in most cases, the actual settlement agreement (PDF) is on file with the Court, and a matter of public record. Now Ms. Barker's attack on the constitutionality of the RIAA's damages theory, as well as her other defenses — including unclean hands ...
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Proms 38 & 39: West-eastern divan orchestra / Barenboim, Royal Albert Hall, London
Three beacons of excellence currently dominate the youth-orchestra scene:Gustavo Dudamel's extraordinary Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra; and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, whose magic derives from the unique chemistry between its members, its charismatic creator, and the political tragedy to which it is a defiant response.
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V Festival, Hylands Park, Chelmsford
The V Festival has reached its 13th anniversary by continuing to confound. Detractors point to its role as giant brand management machine, a suspicion helped by Wag-obsessed coverage beforehand. Here, wellies are a fashion statement, even in sunny weather, and if you are not boozing or listening to music, you are watching dancers cavort in underwear on the Sloggi stage.
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Music Review: The Dandy Warhols Hit Sonic Overload
The Dandy Warhols, "Earth to the Dandy Warhols" (Beat World Records)
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Glasgow hits all right notes to become UNESCO 'world centre of music'
GLASGOW has succeeded in its bid to become an official Unesco City of Music, The Scotsman can reveal.
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Summer Sounds fill the Civic Center
Three bands performed Sunday at a free outdoor concert at the Civic Center in Longview. Organizers say they hope the first-time Summer Sounds in the Circle will become an annual event.
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Novelist Eva Hoffman on how music and literature have shaped her life
Novelist Eva Hoffman explores the complex relationship between music and literature - and how they have both shaped her life
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Nicola Rescigno: Co-founder of Dallas Opera
The conductor Nicola Rescigno is best remembered as co-founder of the Dallas Opera and as its artistic director for 33 years. He was also music director and, for a few years, general manager as well. His preference was for Italian opera, so Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini made up a large part of the repertory at Dallas; he also liked French opera, so Bizet and Massenet figured on ...
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Lee Young: Jazz drummer and bandleader
It's hard to decide quite whether the drummer Lee Young's place in jazz gained from the overwhelming importance of his brother Lester, or was cast in the shade by it. The two men worked together several times during Lester's short life, and in their own band Lester was the universal jazz muse while Lee took care of the more prosaic side of things. One thing not in doubt is that Lee Young was an ...
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GrooveLily Revamps Its Website and Offers Preview of New Musical Long Story Short
The site ( groovelily.com ) was first launched by Brendan Milburn, Gene Lewin and Valerie Vigoda in 1996. "A revamp is long overdue, and our fans have been pestering us for ages — to the point of offering their help, expertise and advice," Vigoda told Playbill.com. "It's time."
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Customer Service
STRATFORD, Ont. - The Stratford, Ont., Shakespeare Festival said its 2009 playbill, announced Monday, reflects its "commitment to producing the works of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, along with other classical theatre repertoire and the work of living playwrights."
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Laura Cantrell Courts the Country Goddesses
For an increasing number of contemporary musicians romancing the American country and Western idiom, self-expression goes hand in hand with an archival zeal. There is arguably no better local example of this than the Nashville-born, Queens-residing singer, songwriter, and lapsed radio DJ Laura Cantrell. Ms. Cantrell, whose new EP of cover renditions, "Trains and Boats and Planes," draws from ...
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Neil Young announces Palace show
Music legend Neil Young will perform at The Palace of Auburn Hills on Dec. 7 as part of a North American tour that will start Oct. 14 in St. Paul, Minn., and end on Dec. 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Jelly NYC wants to jam in Williamsburg
Distraught music fans considering going off the deep end when the swimming pool turned concert venue at Williamsburg's McCarren Park closes later this month can breathe easy. Plans are in the works to keep outdoor concerts in the trendy neighborhood.
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Bob the Builder nailed by noise control
19 August 2008 An Auckland kindergarten is flabbergasted after noise control officers turned up to a kids' disco where Bob the Builder music was apparently being played too loud.
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Neil Young, Death Cab to play Everett
Neil Young and Death Cab for Cutie plan to play Everett on Oct. 21 in a show that will bring together a musical icon and an MTV mainstay. Comcast Arena at Everett will host the concert, the venue announced today.
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Music Producer Joan Hyler in Car Wreck
Authorities say Hollywood producer and talent manager Joan Hyler was in critical condition after she was hit by a car Friday night on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif. Ms. Hyler, who has represented Bob Dylan and Madonna and is a former president of the nonprofit Women in Film, was hit as she was heading to a home in the area. In a posting on the Web site of UCLA Medical Center, her family ...
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Met To Honor Pavarotti With Free Concert
The Metropolitan Opera will offer a free concert performance of Verdi's Requiem on September 18 to honor the memory of one of its greatest stars, Luciano Pavarotti, who died last year of pancreatic cancer. Tenor Marcello Giordani will sing the music once made radiant by the Italian tenor, with James Levine on the podium. They will be joined by soprano Barbara Frittoli, mezzo-soprano Olga ...
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Hesitant Steps Into the Future: Stereolab and the Walkmen
Stereolab has made the musical equivalent of 1960s European art-house cinema for nearly 20 years now. Since forming in London in 1990, the group has melded lounge pop, 1970s-style German rock (better known as "Krautrock"), and electronic music with the sort of dense intellectualism that can be found in graduate student dissertations on political theory. It all makes for a plush cocktail that ...
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Isaac Hayes Remembered as Civic Leader, Humanitarian
And the band played on. Monday was a musical tribute to the man who changed the face of music, especially in the movies, and it was a reunion of the legends that made Stax Records a household name. But while the music played many of Isaac Hayes' fans, most icons in their own respect, spoke mostly about the Isaac Hayes you may not have known.
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