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Filipino film competes in 12th Thai Short Film and Video Festival
Shorts , a short film about a young copywriter/production designer who seems to have gone crazy, will compete in the 12th Thai Short Film and Video Festival, which will run from August 29 to September 14 at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Pathumwan Junction.
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Brandon Hang never had an official trombone teacher, and he didn’t play jazz until his sophomore year of high school.
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Party Patrol: Rocking the Big Apple to its Core
Has it ever occurred to anyone that New York is the city that never sleeps because no one will turn down the music? The Big Apple rocked even harder than usual last week-one might say to its core. The Jonas Brothers unleashed their chaste dreaminess on East Hampton, drawing celebrity moms like Christie Brinkley, Kelly Ripa (snapping photos on her iPhone) and Christy Turlington to their concert ...
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Remembering Ray Heindorf
Mechanicville composer would have turned 100 today
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Fashion show to help kids without parents
SARATOGA SPRINGS - "Aqueelah is an engaging 15-year-old who likes music and dancing," reads the sign below the framed photograph. But like the other 19 kids whose pictures are exhibited at the Wilton Mall this week, Aqueelah doesn't have any legal parents.
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Higher costs make tours harder for emerging acts
Once the model for music success, the eternal tour has become more difficult for bands trying to break into the business, thanks to high gas prices.
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Mahler festival ends on triumphant note
By CHRIS SHULL The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has made me love concerts. On Sunday night at Bass Hall, the combined forces of a beefed-up ensemble, the Southwestern Seminary Master Chorale (prepared by David Thye) and vocal soloists Jessica Rivera and Susanne Mentzer left me transported. They delivered an unambiguous message of eternal life during the finale of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. ...
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Music by the Pops might come to end
Kirk Wilkie and the Rappahannock POPS Orchestra are looking for a new home, Local:4-Pagination
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The songs of our lives on a day in the park
People at the Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival have found different ways to celebrate the music that has become the soundtrack of their lives. For Muriel Walsh, it was listening to Rita Coolidge,...
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
Rock band Southern All Stars on Sunday finished their farewell concert series to mark the 30th anniversary of their debut at Nissan Dome in Yokohama. The group has already announced they will suspend their music activities next year.
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ZZ Top makes pitch for Houston
ZZ Top, the band that made helped make La Grange and its "best little whorehouse" famous, is now pitching its own hometown. The three band members, who grew up in Houston and call themselves the "little ole band from Texas," were recruited by the Greater Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau to promote the virtues of visiting the city. With their 1983 hit song Sharp Dressed Man playing in the ...
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Hundreds turn out to Christian music concert in Naperville
The Millennium Carillon was the center of attention Sunday night as part of a Christian music concert sponsored by several area Catholic churches.
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The reality is, Lauren Conrad is an Emmys designer now
By MONICA CORCORAN Maybe it’s the fusty name: Emmy. Sounds a bit like that teetotalling aunt who’s always bragging about her latest canasta score. Last year, the Emmy Awards drew just 13.1 million viewers, down from 16.2 million the year before. (Even the Country Music Awards beat it.) But this year, the producers of the 60th — at least it’s the new 50! — annual show are intent on luring a ...
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Today's agenda: Guitarists Fred Hamilton and Christopher McGuire play; American Idols Live tour
Pulling strings Drop by the Carter Burgess Plaza concourse at noon — that’s the downtown Fort Worth plaza with that Man With Briefcase cut-out sculpture — and hear jazz guitarist Fred Hamilton play with classical guitarist Christopher McGuire. They’re performing in the Fort Worth Classic Guitar Society’s "Midday Monday Music" series. Free. www.guitarsociety.org . Idol worship And ...
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Price directs symphony plans
The Rio Hondo Symphony has no time to fiddle around after its diamond jubilee season. In addition to the search for a new conductor after the retirement of Wayne Reinecke, the 80-musician seasoned symphony has witnessed the emergence of new managerial head Bonnie Price.
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Newsmaker of the day: Dee Doolittle
Dee Doolittle of Salem, executive director and founder of Mitchell Farm’s Equine Retirement Inc., a retirement farm for older horses, is helping to organize the second annual Mitchell Farm Music Fest to benefit the farm.
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Tri-Cities in 60 seconds
History of Batavia biz; Jazz fest returns Sept. 5-6; spaces for 'Depot Deals'; parking deck party; sell kids clothing
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Confidential
■ Judges and participants at the upcoming ZestFest 2008 shouldn’t get freaked out about the recent salmonella scare, say event organizers. Hosted by Chili Pepper magazine, the Sept. 5-7 ZestFest at Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth will feature tastings, competitions and other activities that celebrate fiery foods. After initially honing in on tomatoes, the Food and Drug Administration ...
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Footnotes
The New York-bound production of ?Vanities A New Musical? announced Feb. 2 as the date of its first preview.
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Hey, Enfants: Allons!
The French Institute Alliance Française has announced the lineup for ?Crossing the Line 2008,? a festival of music, dance, theater and the visual arts.
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The Plot?s a Tangle; Its Setting, Not at All
Nature takes its course in high style in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival?s inspiriting production of ?Cymbeline.?
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CodeTalkers pull some legs, get others dancing
The crowd gave a roar Sunday evening when Bobby Lee Rodgers, frontman for the CodeTalkers, introduced, "from Lancaster, Pa., The Stickman" on drums.But Rodgers' out-of-towner pronunciation of "Lancaster" was a clue that he might be pulling a few thousand legs at the...
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Performing Arts Series offers blockbusters
NAMPA -- If variety is -- as they say -- the spice of life, fans of the Nampa Civic Center's Performing Arts Series are in for a treat.The 2008-09 series which opens October 12 and runs through April 1, 2009 is a virtual cornucopia of quality entertainment delivered right to your back door."Offering something for everyone is one of our objectives," says Bill Stephan, Civic Center director. "Our ...
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A Sense of Loss Pervades the Mostly Mozart Finale
Loss and transformation were the themes of this year?s Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, and the final program offered some of both.
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Q and A: Newfane farmer John Peterson still runs vegetable stand at 82
John Peterson, 82, was born in the farmhouse at 6365 Ridge Road where there’s a modest vegetable stand with an honor box for folks to pay for the produce.
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