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Top box sets, from the Beatles to Bill Withers
Here are some of the more notable box sets of the season in rock and pop: Beatles, “Stereo Vinyl Box Set” (Capitol, $319): The Beatles’ core 14 albums are repackaged again, this time with vinyl connoisseurs in mind. Each remastered...
Tags: Music, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Page, DVDs
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Glorious sounds soar above season of economic gloom
No musical news story in 2012 drew greater media attention, inside and outside Chicago, than the strike that silenced the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 48 hours in late September. The cliffhanger was resolved just in time for the CSO to fulfill a...
Tags: Music, Ravi Shankar, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Concerts, Poetry
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Richard Lewis: The soul of a jazzman
The performer bounds onto the stage, and even before the applause has died down he's standing in front of the microphone, riffing freely. As his solo takes flight, he picks up the tempo, his thoughts rushing out in a torrent. Quickly, he develops...
Tags: Music, Benny Goodman, MB Financial Inc., Comedy (genre), Music Industry
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Ward Stare returns to Lyric Opera, with a baton
You've heard of pianist-conductors, violinist-conductors, even the occasional cellist-conductor. But how many conductors can you name who began their careers playing first trombone with a major American opera company while still in their teens? Ward...
Tags: Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Poetry, Concerts, Entertainment Events
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City Lights: Turning on new 'Lights'
This column has moved but will not require a new name. "City Lights" — I originally thought of that title as a play on the city editor position. Now, as I move into the features editor spot, I'm reminded of from where else the inspiration came....Tags: Politics, City Lights (movie), Gene Siskel, Entertainment, Awards and Prizes
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Missing Muti no Pavarotti
Whatever angst there may be over Riccardo Muti's missing his third set of concerts in less than three years as Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director, know that the flu-ridden superstar conductor is no Luciano Pavarotti. The famed tenor had bowed out...
Tags: Music, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Concerts, Poetry, Entertainment Events
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Cascio Christmas choir to hit NBC
Daily American Staff WriterChristmas in Rockefeller Plaza will have local ties to Somerset County this year. Jeanne Cascio, a Somerset native, conducted her choir from Mark Twain Intermediate School in New York City as they performed for NBC's TODAY show on Sunday. The...Tags: Music, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Hurricanes, Religious Festivals, Natural Disasters
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Saturday's TV Highlights: 'The Year in Pup Culture' on Animal Planet
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 23 - 29 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SPECIALS A Chipmunk Christmas: The squeaky-voiced rodents are back and looking to get to Carnegie Hall in this animated special...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Entertainment, Dolly Parton, ESPN2 (tv network), TNT (tv network)
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Tim Janis' Christmas Rose Concert Tour Comes to Hartford's Tabor House
Tabor House, a safe haven for HIV Positive, homeless men in Hartford, is delighted to announce that classical American composer Tim Janis is bringing his Christmas Rose concert tour to the Sisters of St. Joseph Chapel this upcoming Sunday, December 2nd,...
Tags: Culture, Religious Festivals, Arts and Culture, HIV, Services and Shopping
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Florida Youth Orchestra celebrates 25 years of inspiring students through music
A quarter-century ago, Myrna and Bob Weaver wished for a musical venue for children to learn, play and enjoy classical music. The first Florida Youth Orchestra, in 1988, tuned to the melodies of 54 instruments played by adolescent fingers. For...
Tags: Music, Nova Southeastern University, Broward County, Schools, Music Industry
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Osvaldo Golijov misses yet another deadline for violin concerto
Osvaldo Golijov is one of the most in-demand composers working today, with commissions from major orchestras around the world. But the past few years have been difficult for the Argentine composer: He has missed deadlines for new pieces and was accused...
Tags: Music, Culture, Arts and Culture, Francis Ford Coppola, Music Industry
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For CSO opener, Muti explores some unfamiliar corners of the repertory
There was good news to come out of Symphony Center on Thursday night. Riccardo Muti was back to open the new season, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians are playing while talking. All's right with the world, or at least the CSO's corner of it....
Tags: Music, Culture, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Career and Workplace, Arts and Culture
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