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NEA Gives $345,000 In Grants To 12 Connecticut Arts Groups
Hartford CourantThe National Endowment for the Artsgave out its lastest round of grants, giving 12 Connecicut arts organizations a total of $345,000 for various projects. Outgoing Chairman Rocco Landesman announced the arts agency will award 832 grants totaling $23.3...Tags: Animation (genre), International Organizations, Long Wharf Theatre, Entertainment Events, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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In new film, actor Fry ponders his conflicted love affair with Wagner's music
Stephen Fry was all of 11 when his grandfather played him a recording of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" Overture. For the boy who grew up to become a distinguished British actor on stage, in television and film ("Wilde," "Gosford Park"), it proved to be...
Tags: Gene Siskel, Celebrities, Grant Park Chorus, Documentary (genre), Entertainment Events
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PASSINGS: Thomas Cassidy, Valerie Eliot
Thomas Cassidy Longtime classical music radio announcer in L.A. Thomas Cassidy, 95, an announcer who was the longtime host of classical music programs on the now-defunct KFAC radio station, died Nov. 5 at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, his daughter...Tags: Radio, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Radio Industry, Music
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Terry Callier dies at 67; vocalist, musician
Terry Callier, a singer-songwriter who captivated a cult following with his quietly hypnotic baritone voice and hard-to-classify music that combined elements of folk, blues and jazz, died of cancer Oct. 27 at a hospital in Chicago. He was 67. Callier...
Tags: Ramsey Lewis, Curtis Mayfield, Chicago Tribune, Near North Side, The Washington Post
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Terry Callier: Farewell to a distinctive Chicago voice
Chicago singer-songwriter Terry Callier never received a fraction of the acclaim he deserved, but nobody who heard him ever forgot him. The imploring, incantatory quality of his vocals distinguished him from peers, as did his knack for mixing elements of...
Tags: Ramsey Lewis, Curtis Mayfield, Howard Reich, Radio, The Washington Post
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'Carmina Burana' a boisterous opener for Columbia Pro Cantare
Columbia Pro Cantare opens its 36th season with a choral blast when it does Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 8 p.m., at Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake High School. It's such a popular piece of classical music that audiences seemingly...Tags: Schools, Culture, Arts and Culture, French Literature, High Schools
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Sundays at Three scores with winning combination
Not everybody is watching football games on Sunday afternoon. Thank goodness that's the case for the classical music series Sundays at Three, which, true to its name, stands a sporting chance of attracting a nonsporting audience for its season-opening...Tags: Ellicott City, Illinois State University, Anglicanism, Religion and Belief, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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Reissued recordings add luster to Georg Solti's legacy
Georg Solti, whose 100th birthday the classical music world is celebrating this month, rose to international fame as a recording artist well before he became widely known in the concert hall and opera house. Indeed, the former music director of the...
Tags: Grammy Awards, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Music
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A 'classical revolution' is spreading in Baltimore
It was a quiet night for a revolution. People at the bar in Joe Squared Station North sat huddled over drinks and conversations. Folks occasionally strolled in to pick up pizza orders or headed to dining tables in the back. Few even glanced at the...
Tags: Charles Street, Charles Dickens, Entertainment Events, Art Music (genre), Entertainment
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Classically Trained: Pacific Chorale marks 45th season with 'Elijah'
The Pacific Chorale will celebrate its 45th concert season at the end of the month with a performance of Mendelssohn's "Elijah." The concert is at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, where the chorus is one...Tags: Music Industry, John Alexander, University of California, Irvine, Culture, Arts and Culture
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Hume's Kaleidoscopic Mind-Body Music Drops in at BAR New Haven on Oct. 24
Hume w/ Stout Cortez. Free, 9 p.m., Oct. 24. BAR, 254 Crown St., New Haven, manicproductions.org For musicians and music fans alike, tweenage and teenage years are traditionally the most crucial. Somewhere between 11 and 18, you start cultivating...
Tags: Music Industry, Punk (genre), Entertainment, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Music
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Liberal Arts
Fox 5 San Diego staffJosh Radnor, best known for the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, struck out on his first film – HappyThankYouMorePlease. In this movie, he hits it out of the park. Perhaps some of the themes you’ve seen before – age difference in...Tags: Richard Jenkins, The Visitor (movie), Josh Radnor, Movies, Zach Braff
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