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Famed Quartet Played Inauguration to Taped Music
WASHINGTON -- Whether you loved or hated the classical music played at President Barack Obama's inauguration, what you heard was a recording made two days earlier unless you were sitting within earshot of the celebrated quartet.
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Symphony to play Carnegie Hall in 2010
The program will be Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto featuring guest soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1.
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Price, son bring honky-tonk tunes to Longview
Ray Price was tooling down a country road near his home in Mount Pleasant on Wednesday morning when his cell phone rang.
The Longview News-Journal |
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MORE 2008 LEFTOVERS
These Music Video Distributors DVDs aren’t last year’s best, but didn’t get reviewed for one reason or another. I think that many readers will enjoy them.
The Biloxi Sun Herald |
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Christmas in January
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The sound of pounding hammers and whining saws was music to the ears of Ron Robinson on Thursday, as he stood near a portable heater and watched a group of fellow veterans help rebuild his Stadium Place home."I was about to be ove...
The Charleston Gazette |
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'This isn't Milli Vanilli'
Famed classical quartet played inauguration to taped music; spokeswoman says weather was too cold for instruments to stay in tune
The Globe and Mail |
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Fist jackers
The most interesting element of most music polls in recent years is a complete lack of critical consensus. Look at these lists — only a few albums (Lil Wayne, PAS/CAL, TV on the Radio) merit more than one mention.
Metro Times Detroit |
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Music program at Franklin Regional reaches for high notes
The music program in the Franklin Regional School District is growing, and its faculty hopes the school board supports several plans to accommodate students.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
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Rediscovered Mozart Piece Has Modern Premiere That brief piece of violin music by Mozart that was found
last year in a Nantes archive has had its first performance in that city. BBC 01/22/09 (includes audio/video clip)
Arts Journal |
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Spector prosecution rests
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The prosecution rested Thursday in the Los Angeles retrial of music producer Phil Spector for second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson.
UPI |
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LARRY FENNELLY: Plenty of entertainment options this weekend and beyond
There’s going to be a record-breaking amount of theater on the February calendar (not to mention the Macon Film and Video Festival), but before we focus on the bounty that lies ahead, check out what’s on our plates this weekend.
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Popular event offers parade, ice carving, more
Lambertville-New Hope Winter Festival will offer opportunities for families to enjoy the two-village, four-day celebration scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 21 to Sunday, Jan. 25. Saturday, Jan. 24 is the most fun-packed of them all.
MyCentralJersey.com |
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Local self-taught guitarist speaks volumes with hands
An old adage says there are two kinds of people - those who listen and those who wait for their chance to speak. In most musical situations, lead guitarists fall into the latter category by waiting for their chance to say as much as possible during solos, but not John Smotherman. Make no mistake, the soft-spoken Palm Beach Gardens resident often speaks volumes with his hands, yet he always ...
The Palm Beach Post |
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A 'Chocolate' treat for music fans
While the Palm Beach Opera is presenting Norma this weekend, the real news on the local operatic scene may be the emergence of yet another company.
The Palm Beach Post |
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A venture in tune with youth
Symphony teams with Big Brothers Big Sisters on music program ALBANY ? The Albany Symphony Orchestra will work with Big Brothers Big Sisters to bring music to life for young people. The two nonprofits announced a collaboration Thursday at the Palace Theater, where some 50 mentors and their "siblings'' will attend the first family concert of the year at 3 p.m. Sunday. "In these challenging ...
Albany Times Union |
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Big Day Out drug busts
Police make 53 drug-related arrests in scorching temperatures just hours into the Sydney leg of the Big Day Out music festival.
Sydney Morning Herald |
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A Short History of Isla Vista Bands, Punk to Present
As the students comes and go, so too does the music.
Santa Barbara Independent |
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Local Bluegrass band’s start a ‘cliche’
So much of music has a lot of mythology built up around it. There’s the garage band that toils away, surrounded by paint cans and old tires. The folk singer who sings on street corners and at coffee shops until get ting discovered.
Bangor Daily News |
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Academy showcases local music, dance
This show brings local talent together.
The News & Advance |
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Bibb votes to add penny to local hotel/motel tax
The Bibb County Commission on Thursday authorized the county attorney to draft a resolution requesting that the local legislative delegation add a penny to the hotel/motel tax and split the revenue it generates between the Georgia music and sports halls of fame.
Macon Telegraph |
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
It’s hard to improve on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s flawless theatrical masterpiece, but it’s also enticing to imagine what it would be like if the tale of feuding fairies, magic flowers and royal weddings were set to song. The Houston Grand Opera will fulfill this ...
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Smart money on Mick Dodson for Australian of the Year
If the bookies are right, Aboriginal leader and academic Mick Dodson will be named Australian of the Year on Sunday, taking over the title from country singer Lee Kernaghan. Prof Dodson, a tireless c
The West Australian |
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Events: Finding the ‘beer of your dreams’
Beer drinking is about taking risks, says Julie Johnson, editor of All About Beer Magazine. At the World Beer Festival, a beer-tasting event the magazine will host Saturday at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, Johnson will look for two comments: “I didn’t know beer could taste like this” and “I want that again.” “That feeling of discovery is what we want to encourage,” she said. ...
The State |
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Choir bringing song of hope to Fairmont
FAIRMONT - The Minnesota Teen Challenge choir concert has become an annual event at Bethel Evangelical Church in Fairmont. Minnesota Teen Challenge is a faith-based residential chemical dependency program once targeted toward teens, but now serving just as many adults. "The program has really transitioned," said Deb Meyer, director of music and worship ministries at Bethel Evangelical Church.
The Fairmont Sentinel |
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Music is an art form for Andy Friedman
Sometimes we aren’t exactly what we think we are. “When I close my eyes at night, I’m still a painter,” Andy Friedman says. Friedman, a singer who engages folk music with a wine drinker’s swagger and country music like a black-coffee-sipping urban cowboy, returns to the UU Coffeehouse on Saturday. He completed his last painting, “Pilot Light,” about 12 years ago. It took three years of ...
The State |
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