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ANN NESBY TO PERFORM LIVE AT STONECREST MALL IN LITHONIA: Grammy Award winner and Queen of Inspirational Soul set to ...
Grammy Award winner Ann Nesby, who is an American icon of R&B, Gospel and Dance music, will appear at the Mall at Stonecrest on Saturday, April 4 at 5 p.m. to perform live in celebration of her new CD release “The Lula Lee Project.”
Eurweb
Presented By: Magazines.com Celebrates Mardi Gras with Discounted Magazine Subscriptions
Mardi Gras, French for "Fat Tuesday," is the final day of the three-day festival known as Carnival, which occurs immediately before Lent. To celebrate this year's Mardi Gras festivities, Internet retailer Magazines.com is featuring food, wine and travel magazines at up to 90 percent off cover prices. (PRWeb Feb 19, 2009) Read the full story at ...
San Francisco Chronicle
Sonia congratulates Rahman and Pookutty
New Delhi, Feb 23 : Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday congratulated A.R. Rahman and Resul Pookutty for winning the Oscars for music and sound mixing.
New Kerala
Cowell planning to freeze body after death
Music mogul Simon Cowell is planning to do the world an "invaluable service" - by having his body frozen after his death so he can be brought back to life in the future.
world entertainment news via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
A timely revival of thirties operetta
Knickerbocker HolidayBy Kurt Weill and Maxwell AndersonOperetta Theatre,Jane Mallett TheatreIn Toronto on Friday nightK nickerbocker Holiday, by Kurt Weill (music) and Maxwell Anderson (book and lyrics) sends up the high stupidity, low cunning and deep, brazen corruption of government in the early American Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (which later became New York).
The Globe and Mail
Trinity Lutheran College ensemble emphasizes community through music
EVERETT -- Members of the traveling ensemble at the local Christian college don't just perform for the sake of performing.
Everett Herald
Mon,23 Feb 2009
Indian music maestro AR Rahman made history as he became the first Indian to win two Oscars. Watch Rahman's thank you speech. Video courtesy: www.Oscars.com
Hindustan Times
Rahman praises God in Tamil after Oscar win
COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! Translated to mean "May all praise be to the almighty", it is a line the music maestro always says after receiving an award.
Hindustan Times
Babies Learn Music While Sleeping
Early screening and treatment for infants with hearing problems, and the ability to computer-generate musical scores, are two very different possible outcomes of some "off-the-wall" research. (PRWeb Feb 23, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2086214.htm
PRWeb
All is covered and the show goes on
Music-loving spies the N.'s report that Wednesday night's San Francisco Symphony concert started five minutes late because conductor Kurt Masur couldn't find his formal pants. A pair eventually was supplied by tubaist Jeff Anderson, who happened to have an...
San Francisco Chronicle
'Slumdog' composer Rahman wins 2 Oscars
In just one night, Indian film composer A.R. Rahman equaled the number of Oscars his fellow Indians had taken home during the first 80 years of the Academy Awards.
AP via Yahoo! News
Prime Ministers Rock Ecuador with Smoking Monkeys
Ernesto and Nacho were both taken too far; they had a choice to make: either quit or face the music. They did the latter, resulting in a 12 track album coherently named, Take a Ride; the debut album of the Prime Ministers. Smoking Monkeys is one of the album tracks which could be easily found making a concert hall sway to its rhythm or in the limelight of a fashionable night club. (PRWeb Feb ...
PRWeb
He's with the band
FOXBORO - Once, Collin Earnst's pop-cover band gave free concerts in Foxboro.
The Sun Chronicle
Return of Unnam Marannu
Super-hit song 'Unnam Narannu, Thenni Paranna' of Mukesh-Siddique-Jagadeesh-Asokan starrer In Harihar Nagar (1990) is now remixed for director Lal's ongoing To Harihar Nagar, the much-anticipated sequel of In Harihar Nagar.
New Kerala
Student to show off flute skills on national program
Chaz Salazar, a Cesar Chavez High student from south Phoenix, will play his flute on national radio program From the Top.
The Arizona Republic
Center a sign of unity for city's kids
The Unity Community Center on Mount Ephraim Avenue has been helping to save Camden one performance at a time, using music, dance and martial arts.
Courier-Post
Samba in Shanghai: Chino Latino Tres
Shanghai's premier Latin music party (perhaps Shanghai's only Latin music party, though that doesn't make it any less premier) is back! The third party in the Chino Latino series is taking place at The Shelter this Wednesday to help you groove away the mid-week. Music will encompass all forms of Latin sounds - Cumbia, Salsa, Mexican Hip Hop and genres you don't even know. The ...
Shanghaiist
Keys host a cappella competition
"Put on your pretty lies, you're in the city of wonder. Ain't gonna play nice, watch out you might just go under," sang Pitch Slapped, in its cover of Rihanna's "Disturbia," to a packed Salomon 101 last Saturday night. The group from Berklee College of Music won the Northeast quarterfinals in this year's International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, hosted by Brown's Higher Keys.
The Brown Daily Herald
Nigeria: Hip Hop World Awards Hold May
The organisers have revealed surprising details for this year's edition of Hip Hop World awards. As the annual honours event enters its fourth year, and the music industry in Nigeria gearing up to take proper shape, it gets even more exciting - and unpredictable.
AllAfrica.com
Goldberg Variations captivate listeners
As Senior Lecturer in Music Frederick Jodry performed the Goldberg Variations in a Friday evening concert, listeners were aurally transported to the princely courts of eighteenth-century Germany. Audience members nearly filled Grant Recital Hall to hear this landmark of Baroque counterpoint performed on the harpsichord.
The Brown Daily Herald
Nigeria: My Near-Death Experience - Rymzo
It was supposed to be a two month tour of music and video shooting. Alas just before he hit the roads, men of the underworld struck in broad daylight.
AllAfrica.com
Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor , Op. 30 Symphony No. 2 in E minor , Op. 27
Rachmaninov’s piano concertos are among HKPO and every orchestra’s central repertoire. Regular Hong Kong concertgoers should be very familiar with his ever popular Piano Concerto No. 3 , especially after the Oscar-winning film Shine . No matter it was the perfunctory Barry Douglas, stepping in Kirill Gerstein, or the award-winning Rashkovskiy, hardly a concert with this piece ended up without ...
Concertonet
1. YouTube search: honuboyla Akon
Robots from the future are being sent back, this time as cyborg children, programmed to kill us with cuteness. They are born of a digital era and know no copyrights. They sing duets with piano accompaniment from pirates on YouTube.
FSView
Sacramento Single: DJ Oasis' "Well Connected (Introduction)"
Nick Shoman – a.k.a. DJ Oasis – bought his first turntable when he was 10, retired from deejaying at the tender age of 13 and then, finally, as he reached adulthood, decided to stage a comeback. "When I started, I was inspired by DJ Premier and DJ Kool Herc, the real pioneers (who) could play old James Brown records and old groove jazz records and get people breakdancing," he says. Once in ...
The Sacramento Bee
Ricky Skaggs brings in the ‘thunder’
Have a hankering for a night of award-winning Bluegrass musicians? Then roll on over to Tallahassee’s Christian Heritage Church, Friday Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. to be wowed by the sounds of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, hosted by Florida State University’s Seven Days of Opening Nights.
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