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Feinstein revs up Pasadena Pops summer season
The Pasadena Pops' star-studded "Sierra Acura Summer Concert Series" opens June 1 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia. At the podium: singer, pianist and renowned interpreter of the American Songbook, Michael Feinstein,...
Tags: Culture, Xanadu (musical), Movies, Music, Arts and Culture
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Patt Morrison Asks: Two from the 'typosphere'
![There'll be a pair of Pasadena institutions along Colorado Boulevard for New Year's -- the Rose Parade, and a company marking 100 years in business. Anderson Business Technology, nee Anderson Typewriter Co., has bucked two trends: It's been a one-family operation all along, and it's managed to leap from the age of slammed return levers and carbon paper to ctrl.alt.delete. Don Anderson and his son, David, are chairman and president, the
second and third generations in the firm. Change has been crucial to their century of success, and yet a romantic roll call of anachronistic mechanical brands -- Royal, Underwood, Smith Corona, Olivetti, Sholes and Glidden, Hermes -- still connects the Andersons to the "typosphere," where poet Charles Bukowski's manual Olympia stars on a mouse pad, and composer Leroy Anderson's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GCBJPDCUF0">whimsical "The Typewriter"</a> stars
on YouTube.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-12/67071105-30142851.gif "There'll be a pair of Pasadena institutions along Colorado Boulevard for New Year's -- the Rose Parade, and a company marking 100 years in business. Anderson Business Technology, nee Anderson Typewriter Co., has bucked two trends: It's been a one-family operation all along, and it's managed to leap from the age of slammed return levers and carbon paper to ctrl.alt.delete. Don Anderson and his son, David, are chairman and president, the
second and third generations in the firm. Change has been crucial to their century of success, and yet a romantic roll call of anachronistic mechanical brands -- Royal, Underwood, Smith Corona, Olivetti, Sholes and Glidden, Hermes -- still connects the Andersons to the "typosphere,\" where poet Charles Bukowski's manual Olympia stars on a mouse pad, and composer Leroy Anderson's <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GCBJPDCUF0\">whimsical \"The Typewriter\"</a> stars
on YouTube.")
There'll be a pair of Pasadena institutions along Colorado Boulevard for New Year's -- the Rose Parade, and a company marking 100 years in business. Anderson Business Technology, nee Anderson Typewriter Co., has bucked two trends: It's been a one-family...Tags: Technology, Economy, Business and Finance, YouTube, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Bukowski
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Gold Orchestra to perform in Concordia
The Gold Orchestra is an orchestra made up of 73 musicians in grades 5-10 in and around Manhattan, Kan. They will be performing at the Brown Grand Opera House in Concordia on Feb. 11. The conductor of the Gold Orchestra is David Littrell, University...Tags: Culture, Circuses, Johannes Brahms, Music Industry, Manhattan (New York City)
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Weekend filled with choices for music lovers
The classical music calendar is covered with notes in Howard County this weekend. That's because there are several local concerts scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, March 17 and 18. Much as music lovers might like to be in two places at the same time,...Tags: Culture, Dance, Republic of Ireland, Christianity, Concerts
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Happy Birthday, Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra was just a vodka-inspired whim a little over two years ago.
Sunday, the orchestra celebrates its second birthday with a performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” narrated by offbeat...Tags: Culture, Music, Circuses, Music Industry, Concerts
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Live Arts Maryland performances lead into holiday season
Music director J. Ernest Green began another season of extraordinary music-making with Live Arts Maryland's mid-September production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore," featuring the Annapolis Chorale, Annapolis Chamber Orchestra and soloists at...Tags: Annapolis, Felix Mendelssohn, Ceremonies, Holidays, Music
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Philharmonic astounding in opener
The Glendale Philharmonic opened its second season with a spectacular performance Sunday evening at the First Baptist Church of Glendale. The musicianship, conducting, acoustics and intimacy of the concert were all of the highest order and provided a...Tags: Christianity, Music Industry, New York, Glendale (Queens, New York), Music
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