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Homecoming for music teacher
A YOUNG Armidale musician has returned home to nurture the talent of the next generation. Stephanie Arnold is back in town as part of the Australian Youth Orchestra’s regional residency program.
Armidale Express |
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Playboy Jazz Fest celebrates 30 years
The Playboy Jazz Festival is celebrating 30 years of performances with another internationally acclaimed lineup, including Oscar and Grammy winner Herbie Hancock and vocal stylist Al Jarreau.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Honolulu Symphony's New Plan to Survive
HONOLULU (KHNL) -- It was founded over a hundred years ago, and played through the Great Depression and two world wars. But financial troubles almost silenced the symphony's music.
KHNL News 8 Honolulu |
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Values, tradition and belonging
WORCESTER - The 59th commencement exercises at Anna Maria College had an extra air of majesty this year as the 287 graduates filed into the resplendent Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts yesterday morning.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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St. Ann School teachers test their knowledge to see if they are smarter than fifth-graders
Do you know what major river flows through the Grand Canyon? Can you name the person who wants to share some green eggs and ham? If so, you might be smarter than a fifth-grader.
Naples Daily News |
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The first 10: Paul Weller, 22 Dreams
The trad rocker's ninth solo album embraces everything from Krautrock to jazz. Miraculously, it's brilliant, writes Amy Raphael
Guardian Unlimited |
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It's summer; let arts play in your mind
This is the time of year when Louisville's major performing arts groups go into quiet mode. The Louisville Orchestra, Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet and Actors Theatre have all gone into relative hibernation.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Rauschenberg master of the radical
Robert Rauschenberg, the 82-year-old American master who died Monday, made some of the most influential art of the past 50 years. But not all of his influence comes from the objects he is best known for.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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THIS WEEK IN THE ARTS
CLASSICAL MUSIC • Pianist Derek Han will play works by Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart at 3 p.m. today in the Southern Theatre, 21 E. Main St. The concert had been scheduled for March but was canceled because of a snowstorm. Tickets for the original concert are good. Otherwise, they cost $15 to $35, with $5 student tickets available. Call 614-267-2267.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Making music pays off
From the moment Scott Clevenger picks up his slightly tattered Ovation guitar, his entire body seems to breath a sigh of relief, comforted by resuming its familiar place behind the instrument.
Battle Creek Enquirer |
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Business notables
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was honored by the Association of Black Foundation Executives for modeling effective and responsive grantmaking practices, particularly in communities of color.
Battle Creek Enquirer |
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Five Worth Watching
Death date: The final episode of Aliens in America sees exchange student Raja start dating – darn the luck – just as the series gets cancelled (CW, SUN at 8:30).
Toronto Star |
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Kindergarten teacher pens hints for parents
By Carrie Antlfinger Associated Press MILWAUKEE -- Lisa Holewa was amazed by how easily her daughter's kindergarten class moved from one project to another. There was no whining, no tantrums.
Midland Reporter-Telegram |
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Nortec Collective has a deejay hip transplant
It isn't hard to make the music of an older culture sound new. Just hire a hipster deejay who hails from that part of the world and let them rifle through their parents' record collections.
New York Daily News |
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School music programs will stay
Tacoma middle schools will continue to offer instrumental music in the upcoming school year, though some schools may have fewer class periods of band or orchestra than this year, district officials say.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Nigel Kennedy hits out at use of drugs in orchestras
Munich - Star violinist Nigel Kennedy hit out Sunday at substance abuse in the world of classical music. He told the German news magazine Focus that orchestra musicians often took drugs to head off stage fright. ...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Vision campaign, Scouts awards, art winners
A TOAST TO A 'VISION'
The Morning Call |
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Summer Slam-n-Jam marks end of school
The OC Club, a free-membership program for Orange County young people that rewards 5- to 19-year-olds for making positive choices when they participate in activities run by the club's recreation partners, will have its second annual Summer Slam-n-Jam from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 31 at the Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando.
Orlando Sentinel |
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Power party hails the chief (of staff, that is)
Friends of Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer's new chief of staff -- and those who want to be her friends -- gathered at a trendy downtown club Thursday night to celebrate her appointment.
Orlando Sentinel |
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Dogwood Dance draws crowd in former mayor's memory
Photo By Dan Starcher Jean Baird (left), Wooster’s former director of administration, and Jo Howey, widow of former mayor Jamie Howey, relax during the Dogwood Dance Saturday at the city’s maintenance garage. Baird organized the last dance 14 years ago.
The Daily Record |
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U.K. female singers discover success on U.S. music charts
West Hollywood, Calif. -- Singer Duffy sits next to a clear blue swimming pool on a hotel rooftop patio, the sun setting behind her blond bouffant. She takes a sip of her drink, widens her blue eyes and grins.
The Springfield News-Leader |
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Student to play with Sousa honors band
Joe Burns, a sophomore at Tavares High School and a member of the Tavares High School Band, has been selected from among outstanding high-school musicians nationwide to be a part of the biennial John Philip Sousa Foundation National High School Honors Band.
Orlando Sentinel |
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More News
NEW YORK — It’s another day of rehearsal for Kyle Riabko, the young Canadian musician set to take over the pivotal role of Melchior, the thoughtful student heartthrob of “Spring Awakening,” last season’s Tony-winning best musical.
The Scranton Times-Tribune |
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Wizardly rock casts its magic spell
The music finds its muse in Harry Potter and his magical literary adventures. A month after the release of the seventh and final Harry Potter book last July, Ithaca College freshman Lena Gabrielle Weinstein went to a Toronto conference of fans of J.K. Rowling's record-breaking series. An aspiring songwriter, she composed a song based on her favorite novels and performed it on piano at the ...
Orlando Sentinel |
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Embassy's Mother's Day activities
Cartoon characters entertaining at the Embassy Complex in collaboration with SOS on Mother's Day. The Embassy Complex organised a Mother's Day event together with SOS Malta to help in reduce poverty.
Times of Malta |
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