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CSO and Mena invite audience to go with the flow
Any coherence to be found in the weekend Chicago Symphony Orchestra program is thematic, not musical. Which is to say that the four works led by guest conductor Juanjo Mena Thursday night at Symphony Center represented unrelated styles and periods but all...
Tags: Culture, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Music, BBC, Michigan Avenue
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Carole King to be honored with Obama-hosted show, Gershwin Prize
Carole King seems to have fans in high places: The singer-songwriter's life will be staged with an eye toward Broadway, and next week her oeuvre will be honored at the White House. Officials announced Friday that President Obama will host a star-studded...Tags: Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Human Interest, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, PBS (tv network)
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Michael Jackson trial: Conrad Murray's payment demands 'outrageous'
A professional concert tour director testified Friday in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial that a doctor's demand for $5 million to serve as the singer's tour physician "raised a red flag." Marty Hom, who has spent 25 to 30 years as a tour...
Tags: Witnesses, Lotteries, AEG, Crime, Law and Justice, Entertainment
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Singer Kat Edmonson gets creative with financing her music
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - If Kat Edmonson ever becomes a household name, she can put it down not just to her talent as a jazz singer, but to some decidedly modern financing as well. The 29-year-old Texan, an old-school chanteuse with a contemporary lilt, has...Tags: Henry Mancini, Adele (music artist), Music, Tina Fey, Sony Corp.
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Birthday shoutout: Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor, the industrial music visionary behind Nine Inch Nails, turns 48 years old today. He grew up in blue-collar Pennsylvania, playing the piano, the tuba and the sax. He played in the marching band and in his high school's musical theater...Tags: Movies, Entertainment Events, Music, Entertainment
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'The Marriage of Figaro,' right in time with the 21st century
Suffice to say that Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte weren't thinking about Proposition 8 when they composed "The Marriage of Figaro." The 1786 comic opera follows bullying Count Almaviva's efforts to invoke droit du seigneur to sexually conquer...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Culture, France, Starbucks Corp., Zaha Hadid
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PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine
Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...
Tags: Obituaries, Entertainment Events, Festive Events, Republic of Ireland, John F. Kennedy
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Nashville remembers Patsy Cline
ReporterMiss the marker out front, and you might confuse the building for just another office on Nashville's Music Row, but step inside the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, and you'll find the studio that gave us many of country music's most...Tags: Television Industry, CBS Corp., Arthur Godfrey, Dining and Drinking, Music
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Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra Orchestra fundraisers under way
The Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra has several unique fundraising projects planned in the coming weeks. The orchestra is celebrating its 12th year of providing quality orchestral music and educational opportunities in Northern Michigan, and could use a...
Tags: Finance, Sports, Culture, Economy, Business and Finance, Music
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To do Friday: The Savage Ancient Seas, the Beauty in Everything and Bryan Adams
Art Savage Ancient Seas: The Ancient Aquatic Deep: To paraphrase a popular dinosaur movie, life finds a way. Life found a way in the late-Cretaceous period 70 million years ago, when carnivorous marine reptiles could unhinge their jaws and chomp aquatic...
Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), West Palm Beach
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Motley Crue (playing at Sands) will go out with a bang, bassist Nikki Sixx says
After more than 30 years as rock music's biggest bad boys, after selling more than 30 million albums, Motley Crue can see the finish line, bassist Nikki Sixx says. "We believe that a band should bow out when they're, hopefully, at their top and when...
Tags: Ceremonies, Scranton, Culture, Concerts, Drugs and Medicines
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Jimmy Heath and DePaul students set off sparks
One hundred years ago (plus a few months) some visionary educators founded DePaul University's School of Music. Fourteen years later, jazz musician Jimmy Heath was born. To celebrate the school's centennial, Heath – now 86 and a certifiable jazz...
Tags: DePaul University, Colleges and Universities, Education, Music, Entertainment
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