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Off Topic: last-minute stand-ins
Dining@LargeI'm working on tomorrow's Top 10 dining destinations for large groups, as well as my introduction to our group-dining guest consultant. In the meantime, I am moving the off-topic conversation about last-minute stand-ins and substitutions up here. Here's a...Tags: Bruno Walter
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In 'Maestro,' Felder matures into the role of Bernstein
![THEATER REVIEW: "Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein" at the Royal George Theatre ★★★ ... Hershey Felder's latest show "Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein" is the best of his self-composed entertainments to date.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-11/66019750-11093034.jpg "THEATER REVIEW: "Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein\" at the Royal George Theatre ★★★ ... Hershey Felder's latest show \"Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein\" is the best of his self-composed entertainments to date.")
A regular visitor to Chicago with a loyal audience he has carefully cultivated over several years, the pianist-showman Hershey Felder has performed solo shows at the Royal George Theatre about George Gershwin, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven. In...Tags: Television, Music, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Frederic Chopin, Concerts
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Barbra Streisand's compelling show at United Center
Whether or not you consider Barbra Streisand the last reigning diva of a more lyrical period in American pop music, she certainly stands as a symbol of the era that gave us Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, Lena Horne, Dinah Washington, Doris Day, Sarah Vaughan...
Tags: Television, Volo, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Joe Williams
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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, Concerts, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Classical Music (genre), Entertainment
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Feeling the love for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra
"Don't trust anyone over 30." That 1960s admonition certainly doesn't apply to the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. The MSO has begun its 31st season. I trust the MSO. Sure, it's a baby compared to the nearly 170-year-old New York Philharmonic, but...Tags: Music, The Herald-Mail, Culture, YouTube, Arts and Culture
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Hershey Felder headed back to Chicago with Bernstein
Hershey Felder, the pianist and showman whose composer-based solo shows have long been popular in Chicago, will make his return to the Royal George Theatre this fall.
Felder said Wednesday that his show "Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein" will...Tags: Ticketmaster
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Stephen Sondheim: In his own words, on his own words
![NEW YORK -- At the top of "Look, I Made a Hat," the second half of his exhaustively detailed two-volume set of collected lyrics to such incomparable musicals as "Gypsy" and "Follies," Stephen Sondheim addresses some of the complaints about the first book, "Finishing the Hat." "The most common of them," he writes, "is that I didn't speak enough about my personal life, 'personal' being the euphemism for 'intimate,' which is the euphemism for 'sexual.'"](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-10/65719942-28125210.jpg "NEW YORK -- At the top of "Look, I Made a Hat,\" the second half of his exhaustively detailed two-volume set of collected lyrics to such incomparable musicals as \"Gypsy\" and \"Follies,\" Stephen Sondheim addresses some of the complaints about the first book, \"Finishing the Hat.\" \"The most common of them,\" he writes, \"is that I didn't speak enough about my personal life, 'personal' being the euphemism for 'intimate,' which is the euphemism for 'sexual.'\"")
NEW YORK -- At the top of "Look, I Made a Hat," the second half of his exhaustively detailed two-volume set of collected lyrics to such incomparable musicals as "Gypsy" and "Follies," Stephen Sondheim addresses some of the complaints about the first book,...Tags: Book, Concerts, Artists, Poetry, Georges Seurat
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First-class tour of 'West Side Story' sounds an authentic note
![THEATER REVIEW: "West Side Story" ★★★½ at Cadillac Palace<br>
I think it's fair to say this is your last chance to take an impressionable young person to the theater and say, "Look, this is 'West Side Story' as I remember it."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-07/63386233-20150525.jpg "THEATER REVIEW: "West Side Story\" ★★★½ at Cadillac Palace<br>
I think it's fair to say this is your last chance to take an impressionable young person to the theater and say, \"Look, this is 'West Side Story' as I remember it.\"")
The 2009 Broadway revival of "West Side Story" was the last such revival to be directed by its author, Arthur Laurents, who died earlier this year. And while a classic title like this will always be open for re-creation and re-interpretation, and while...Tags: Mass Media, Jerome Robbins, Dancing, Music Industry, Billy Elliot (musical)
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A big rollicking Valentine's concert featuring Bev Conklin and lots of talented friends
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOG23 songs by 23 artists! Michael Cloeren, emcee for Thursday night’s Bev Conklin and Friends Valentine’s Day Concert at the Musikfest Café, repeatedly reminded the audience what a “big” concert it was. I think there were only 22... -
Library of Congress names new entries for National Recording Registry
Pop & HissThe Library of Congress has named 25 new entries for its National Recording Registry, honoring historically significant sound recordings. Recordings by Donna Summer, Dolly Parton, Leonard Bernstein and others are joining the registry.... -
Music review: The L.A. Phil Mahler Project begins
Culture MonsterThis has been corrected. See note below. The Mahler Project, begun Friday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, is big. Los Angeles Philharmonic officials have calculated that by the time Gustavo Dudamel finishes performing the nine complete symphonies,... -
Music review: Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler's First and Tenth
Culture MonsterGustavo Dudamel and Mahler’s First Symphony have a long relationship. Thursday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, in what may have been Dudamel’s most stirring and satisfying performance here thus far, it was clear that relationship has...
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