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26002
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Powerful Voices Propel 'Otello' |
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T. L. Ponick |
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The Kirov Opera''s new production of Giuseppe Verdi''s "Otello," which opened in the afternoon of Sunday December 9 at the Kennedy Center''s Opera House, proved just as ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2008
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25805
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Music Marches to Globalization's Drum |
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Richard Boursy |
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Nowadays nearly every music retailer – from the old fashioned bricks-and-mortar kind, through the online CD vendors, to the completely virtual iTunes Music Store – has a major ...
Issue Date: 10 / 2007
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24853
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Cream's Clapton, Bruce, and Baker: Reinventors of the Blues |
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Dan Campbell |
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Thirty-six years after their wheels of fire skidded to a halt, English acid-rockers Cream plugged in again for three nights at Madison Square Garden last October. The New York ...
Issue Date: 2 / 2006
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24810
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The Neglected Era Between Elvis and the Beatles Gets Its Due |
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Scott Galupo |
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Many rock enthusiasts view the period between Elvis Presley''s first hip shake and the arrival of the Beatles as one long, sputtering interruption. The late 1950s saw one rock ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2006
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24186
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Passing of 3 Great Composers Ends an Era in Film |
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T.L. Ponick |
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Music fans of all ages noted with sadness the passing this summer in quick succession of three Hollywood giants: film composers Jerry Goldsmith, David Raksin, and Elmer ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2004
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23862
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Charle Ives, America's Musical Visionary |
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Susan Osmond |
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Composer Charles Ives was a constant innovator, pioneering
daring techniques and utilizing hymns and popular tunes to
make music that vividly evokes a primal human community ...
Issue Date: 5 / 2004
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23630
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Experience Music Project: Seattle's Imaginative Unmuseum |
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Iris Brooks |
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The pioneering Experience Music Project offers state-of-the-
art interactivity, vibrant exhibits, and the opportunity to
make live music--even if you never played an ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2004
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23178
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The Electrifying Les Paul |
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Tom Benford |
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The sound of popular music as we know it today--with
multitrack recordings, reverb, and electric guitars--is
largely the creation of Les Paul, who made all these ...
Issue Date: 7 / 2003
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22914
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Traditional American Music Takes Root |
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Henri Schauffler |
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The soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? may have
sparked he current craze for "roots" music, but groups such as
the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band have been helping to preserve ...
Issue Date: 2 / 2003
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22857
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The New World of the Microlabel |
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Peter Catalano |
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World headquarters is a small office located in a warehouse district on the outskirts of Boston. The production room is harpsichordist Peter Watchorn''s kitchen, where he ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2003
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22858
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Selected MusicaOmnia Recordings |
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Peter Catalano |
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J.S. Bach, Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014-1018 (mo 112), three CDs. Emlyn Ngai, Baroque violin, Peter Watchorn, harpsichord.
This disc is one of the label''s ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2003
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22751
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Bill Monroe and the Making of Bluegrass |
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Eric P. Olsen |
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Rosine, Kentucky (population 65), is not much to look at. A 1930s-era country store, a weathered barn, and a cluster of nondescript houses sum up the charms of this rural hamlet ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2002
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21780
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The Creative Force Behind Garth: Brooks' Songwriters a Class Act |
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Dan Fefferman |
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Country music superstar Garth Brooks owes a lot to the
songwriters who penned his biggest hits. Our author met these
talented wordsmiths on a musical tour of their ...
Issue Date: 2 / 2002
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21177
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'Jazz and I Get Born Together': Louis Armstrong at 100 |
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Eric P. Olsen |
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The beloved Satchmo was early recognized as "the greatest
trumpeter in the world" but later vilified by boppers as
a "moldy fig." Now, a century after his birth, he is ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2001
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21454
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The Liberation of the San Francisco Symphony |
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Melvyn Krauss |
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When Michael Tilson Thomas took over as music director of the
San Francisco Symphony five years ago, he faced a stale and
dispirited group. But now it is one of the most ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2001
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21798
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Playing to America's Heart: The Grand Ole Opry at 75 |
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Stephen Henkin |
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The sturdy pioneers who crossed the Appalachians and settled in what is now Tennessee brought with them fiddles, stories, music, and something more--a love of freedom and a deep ...
Issue Date: 2 / 2001
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20810
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The Copland Century |
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Tom Pniewski |
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Aaron Copland embodied in his music the simple, independent
spirit and wide-open spaces of America, yet this European-
trained Russian Jew from Brooklyn also reflected the ...
Issue Date: 11 / 2000
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All About Eve: Eve Queler and the Opera Orchestra of New York |
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Melvyn Krauss |
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For nearly thirty years, the Opera Orchestra of New York has
gone where Gotham''s major companies feared to tread,
discovering new stars and performing neglected works with ...
Issue Date: 8 / 2000
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20996
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The Philadelphia Orchestra: A Century of Music |
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Tom Pniewski |
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Celebrating its centennial this year, the Philadelphia
Orchestra looks back on a colorful history of strong musical
personalities such as Stokowski and Ormandy, an impressive ...
Issue Date: 7 / 2000
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20887
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Plácido's Place: The Washington Opera |
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Peter Catalano |
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With Plácido Domingo at the helm, the Washington Opera wants
to shake up the pecking order within the opera world--but
problems with cash flow and "the vision thing" could ...
Issue Date: 5 / 2000
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