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Quicksilver pushes envelope with early music
TROY ? The avant-garde doesn't have to be big and loud. Weird things can come in small packages, sometimes also from centuries ago, as the early music ensemble Quicksilver proved Friday night at EMPAC.The program, "Stile Moderno: New Music from the 17th Century," featured a team of six Baroque music specialists performing 13 quirky pieces by almost forgotten composers like Dario Castello, ...
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Teen composer gets NY Phil debut
Though still considering what he wants to do when he grows up, a 13-year-old New Yorker will get a major jump-start on a possible musical career next month when the New York Philharmonic plays one of his compositions.
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Trumpeter Marsalis makes hot licks out of kiddie songs
You can make jazz out of anything. A nursery rhyme. A Muppets song. A ditty straight out of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.
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Defined by its fluidity, Broken Social Scene transforms creative fragments into music
Toronto's baroque-pop collective Broken Social Scene is heading to Seattle. "Our talent pool runs pretty deep," says co-founder Brendan Canning of the lineup, which has 14 to 20 members at any given time.
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Black and blues
There are a few bits of trivia you have to know about Otis Taylor if you’re going to write about him: 1) In the first published photograph of Taylor, which appeared in the Denver Post in 1964, he was riding to school on a unicycle while playing the banjo. He was 16 years old.
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January 29-February 4 2009
What’s God got to do with it? Local theologians debate the future of organized religion in America by Jim Lillie
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Bilingual Birdies and City Treehouse Launch Unique Childrens Mandarin Program
NEW YORK----Bilingual Birdies and City Treehouse introduce Mandarin classes for young children––the first program of this type offered in New York City. The 45-minute parent/caregiver-and-child classes teach six-month to five-year olds basic vocabulary in Mandarin via live music, movement, puppetry, dance, and exploratory games.
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Obama brings optimism to music biz
As the winter rolls on, our country is still dealing with its own crises, whether under the ceilings of Wall Street or on the frontlines of the war in Iraq.
The Villanovan |
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RHCP guitarist John Frusciante delivers
Experimental concept albums with multiple songs stretching into the eight and nine-minute mark are usually difficult to grasp.
The Villanovan |
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Best Bets: Oildale turns 100 and we hear there's some sort of football game ...
FRIDAY "Rocky Horror Picture Show," presented by Velvet Darkness, doors open at 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, The Empty Space, 706 Oak St. $10. 323-286-1496. SATURDAY
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Recital to feature Goshen faculty
GOSHEN -- Goshen College assistant professor of music and violinist Solomia Soroka and professor of music and pianist Matthew Hill will perform at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Music Center's Rieth Recital Hall, Goshen College.
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Concerts hosted by Winona Lake
WINONA LAKE -- The Christian Performing Artists Fellowship will begin its 2009 Second Sunday Series concert season with "An Enchanted Evening" at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8.
South Bend Tribune |
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PHOTO: Jennifer Hudson Films New Music Video
The singer gets glam for the "If This Isn't Love" video shoot in Los Angeles
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Deep Dark Woods Love Murder Ballads
The Deep Dark Woods use a simple formula to determine when it's time to make a new album. They ask themselves, "Do we have enough songs?"
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Botswana: Mmadinare Artists Cry Foul
Selebi-Phikwe — Mmadinare upcoming house music group GS, found itself with nothing to show for the all- night performance because music promoter Lekopanye Kenosi of Lecotainment allegedly disappeared without giving them a share of the proceeds.
AllAfrica.com |
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Coronado Schools Foundation: Standing In The Gap
The staff and volunteers involved with the Coronado Schools Foundation (CSF) are parents and educators just like the people the organization assists and represents. “We've all got kids in the various stages of the Coronado school system,” said Patty Cowan, CSF executive director.
Coronado Eagle & Journal |
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Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Rolls into Texas with a Herd of Heavyweights
Studded Concerts, Events and a Packed House in the Heart of the City
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BSSHS brings back the ‘80s with spring musical
Andrew Ainsworth, Kirk Matt Morre and Ted Harding dance to the song “Kids in America,” in the BSSHS production of “Back to the ‘80s: A Totally Awesome Musical.”
Lee's Summit Journal |
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News/community briefs
href="http://www.albanychamber.org/seminar">www.albanychamber.org/seminar. The Albany Music Fund Jazz Brunch, an annual fund-raiser, is scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Feb. 8.
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Montgomery Gentry invites fans to join them in Cancun
Seems as though Kenny Chesney isn't the only country superstar with an affinity for tropical locales. Montgomery Gentry just announced that they are inviting their fans to Cancun, Mexico next December where they will be hosting the first ever "Country on the Beach" event benefiting the T.J. Martell Foundation.
The Tennessean |
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Times & Star
MARYPORT lighthouse has stood silent and unvisited for more than 200 years, but tomorrow it will sing. The landmark is home for a commissioned piece of music, written by Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain.
West Cumberland Times & Star |
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Buccaneers name Jagodzinski offensive coordinator
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers named former Boston College head coach Jeff Jagodzinski offensive coordinator on Thursday. The 45-year-old Jagodzinski compiled a 21-7 record over two seasons at Boston College, which included a 9-5 mark this year, and a loss to Vanderbilt in the Music City Bowl. However, he was fired with three years remaining on his contract earlier in January a day after ...
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All-Star Black History Month This Feb. on GMC
ATLANTA, Jan. 29 / Christian Newswire / -- Gospel Music Channel (GMC) ( http://www.gospelmusicchannel.com ) will celebrate Black History Month this February with 28 days of music and artists that have inspired the world.
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Wars Fail to Dampen Creativity
DUBAI - With his country reeling under violence, Ayman Al Qadi, a Palestinian manager of a stall selling handmade candles and olive wood statues in Global Village, looked on expectedly at the stream of visitors.
Khaleej Times |
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She may not have won the talent show in her first public musical performance (she played treble recorder in a duo with her sister while crossing the Atlantic on an ocean liner) but Liona Boyd of New Canaan has been a smashing success in the years that followed.
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