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After 10 years, Portishead re-emerges with new energy
INDIO, Calif. -- As Portishead finished its meticulously sparse evening performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the typically reticent Beth Gibbons suddenly leapt off the stage and ran along the fenced-in crowd, exuberantly shaking their hands.
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The Fisher Ensemble
Garrett Fisher ’s operas—for lack of a better term—are often mythic explorations of individuals in conflict with larger forces (previous subjects include Galileo and Sir Thomas More). But conflict is his theme, not his method; his music coexists with other arts in a harmonious balance that must be something like what Wagner was groping for when he came up with his theories of the “total art work.”
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The Natchez Democrat
Here are three stories of local women who gave birth and continue to nurture some of the Miss-Lou's important organizations.
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1933: Germans want Jewish prodigy's violin
Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1983 May 13: A vandal slashed and virtually ruined five abstract paintings by Mark Rothko on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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MOTOR CITY YEE-HAW!: Family builds on harmony at Hoedown
It was sunny and breezy around noon Saturday, and the crowd was growing at the Downtown Hoedown at Hart Plaza in Detroit. The Lindamood-Hubbard clan showed up, eight deep with their pink T-shirts with "HOE" printed in black letters on the front and "DOWN" printed on the back.
Detroit Free Press |
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Letters
I wish to express my gratitude for Janet Fullwood's wonderful articles on New Orleans ("Down but far, far from out" and "Katrina tour focuses eyes, heart," May 4).
The Sacramento Bee |
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Gasol content to sing duet
Pau Gasol, the Lakers center, was explaining the other day why he is highly motivated to finish off the Utah Jazz in the second round of the NBA playoffs. "I'm supposed to go to the opera next week," he said. Gasol was invited to a performance of Tosca by a fellow Spaniard, Placido Domingo, the general director of the Los Angeles Opera. He has never met Domingo nor been introduced to opera. "I'm ...
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Remembering Frank Sinatra 10 years after death
When you call Nancy Sinatra's office, a man answers with one word: "Boots." As in: "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," Sinatra's mid-'60s anthem to female empowerment that marched across the Billboard charts. It's only natural that Sinatra named her business...
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My son is living proof: Working with the hands can enrich the mind
I am really disturbed about the idea of eliminating woodshop and other technical classes in high schools, to say nothing of art and music classes.
Lodi News-Sentinel |
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Frye Gaillard reflects on the South, old and new
A Vanderbilt graduate and an Alabama native, Frye Gaillard has been writing about the South for nearly four decades. Vanderbilt University Press has collected some of his previously published articles, essays and profiles into a new volume, With Music and Justice for All: Some Southerners and Their Passions. The book touches on a variety of topics — civil rights, religion, music and unique ...
The Tennessean |
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THIS WEEK
S MUSIC MOTHER'S DAY CELEBRATION You know what Mom wants this year - some flute music! Enter Avedis, the country's foremost chamber series that puts the flute front and center. Today flutist Alexandra Hawley - a founding member of the Stanford Woodwind...
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LETTERS
Robbins earned 'West Side' credit Editor - Shame on whoever wrote the blurb for the Castro's screening of "West Side Story" (April 6). Yes, Leonard Bernstein wrote the score, Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics and Arthur Laurents wrote the book, but there...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Summer means fun - and movies
Indiana Jones, Carrie Bradshaw, Maxwell Smart, Fox Mulder. These are just some of the old friends we'll be seeing on the big screen this summer. But we'll also hopefully make some new friends as the season goes into full gear, revving up the quality and...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Qatar Foundation to open music academy
Qatar Foundation announced it will open a music academy at Education City in late 2009. The school will initially be housed at Qatar’s new Cultural Village, along with the new 101-member Qatar Symphony Orchestra taking up residence this summer.
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Rochester Contemporary Art Center features exhibit of Alison Saar art
Images of fertility and identity run through Alison Saar's art in a new Rochester Contemporary exhibit.
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The last sonata: Violist's father succumbs to cancer, but not before getting his wish to see her play with BYS
From the tender age of 7, Alex Morgan-Welch loved practicing the viola for her father. Wherever he was, she'd drag in her music stand and set up shop. Living room, basement, she'd even practice in the kitchen as he munched on a sandwich.
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For the love of music: Andover students chosen to play in elite Boston Youth Symphony
A rumored performance with Yo-Yo Ma and a European tour were enough to motivate 15-year-old cellist Maddie Tucker to leave the New England Conservatory orchestra and audition for the Boston Youth Symphony.
The Eagle-Tribune |
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by Deur Julie Tcha
Sacramento State junior and author Kacey Kuebler has sold approximately 500 copies of her first book, "The Forest Singer: Earth Magic," this semester.
State Hornet |
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Subtlety and skill chronicle Wyoming roughneck's life and untimely death
A t least 35 people died in oil and gas industry accidents in Wyoming between 2000 and 2006. One of them stole Alexandra Fuller's heart.
The Oregonian |
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Watershed project finds new partners
MID-WINOOSKI WATERSHED -- Although people usually think of where they live in terms of political divisions -- towns and counties -- geographical divisions also give people shared concerns and interests. Friends of the Winooski River is launching two new programs this summer to strengthen connections among Vermonters who live along the Winooski and strengthen their connection to the river itself. ...
The Barre Montpelier Times Argus |
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How I met your mother
You never know how or where the seeds of love will sprout.Desi Arnaz met Lucille Ball on the set of their forgotten 1940 musical, "Too Many Girls." John Lennon was introduced to Yoko Ono at a London art gallery that exhibited her work.
Erie Times-News |
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Mendes courts a new generation
Sergio Mendes found fame as part of an era, symbolized in the name of his first band, Brasil 66, inventing a smooth, jazzy bossa nova pop sound that's the very essence of the cooled-out '60s. Later versions of the group in subsequent decades -- Brasil 77, Brasil 88 -- didn't have nearly the same impact.
Miami Herald |
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Rochesterian's guitars a blend of music and art
Bernie Lehmann has been making guitars and other stringed instruments in Rochester for more than 30 years.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
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Funky music courtesy of party band
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jenna Bush picked "You Are So Beautiful," the ballad made famous by Joe Cocker, for the father-daughter dance with President Bush at her wedding reception Saturday night in Texas, the bandleader said.
Arizona Daily Star |
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Concert Association moves worry ticket subscribers
Ten days ago, London's Philharmonia Orchestra roared out the end of Mahler's Symphony No. 1, closing the Concert Association of Florida's season on a resoundingly successful note.
Miami Herald |
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