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Blockbusters from the BSO
It is possible to quibble with the idea of cramming three blockbuster works into a single program, but the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra carries it off. Ravel's "Bolero," that brilliant study in rhythmic and melodic reiteration, not to mention crescendo,...Tags: Classical Music (genre), Music, Culture, Marin Alsop, Entertainment
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Live performances learn to live with noisy phones
It was the cellphone heard 'round the world.
A bouncy marimba ring tone on an iPhone erupted during the final soft, almost unbearably poignant minutes of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 at a recent New York Philharmonic concert in Lincoln Center.
Music...Tags: Media Industry, Air and Space Accidents, Music, Crime, Law and Justice, Media Industry
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Charles Adam Fecher
Charles Adam Fecher, a self-taught Baltimore scholar, author and editor who undertook the formidable task of editing the controversial diaries of H.L. Mencken, died Monday of respiratory failure at St. Agnes Hospital.
The longtime Govans and Rodgers...Tags: H.L. Mencken, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Govans, Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Book
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Perlman leads BSO in stirring Brahms' Fourth
The classical music world, ever on the hunt for bright young stars with box office snap, still has some reliably surefire veterans. One of them is Itzhak Perlman, the most popular, widely recognized violinist since Heifetz. Tickets for Perlman's guest...Tags: Music, Itzhak Perlman, Music Industry, Music, Culture
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No excuse for a cell phone in the symphony
In "Learning to live with the ringing" (Jan. 22), Tim Smith quotes Baltimore Symphony Orchestra director Marin Alsop as saying, "No one does these things [allows cell phones to ring during performances] intentionally. ... We have to try to be kind and...Tags: Music, Cell Phones, Music, Culture, Marin Alsop
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Learn line dancing with Mary McCormick at East Columbia 50+ Center
Activity Pals For single seniors. Get together with others to attend events, shop, go sightseeing, dine out and more. 301-596-6385. The Bain Center 5470 Ruth Keeton Way, Columbia. 410-313-7213. •Acting Up! Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. A theater...Tags: Restaurants, Judaism, Radio City Music Hall, Diets and Dieting, Massage Therapy
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BSO takes a new approach to the holidays
A bevy of Santas will not tap-dance their way into Rockette-style formations onstage to help the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra celebrate the Christmas season this year.
That cute tradition, and the rest of the Holiday Spectacular presented by the BSO...Tags: Classical Music (genre), International Travel, Artists, PBS (tv network), Christmas
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Glenn William Hardy, business owner
Glenn William Hardy, retired president of the Accurate Weatherstrip and Screen Co., died of complications from dementia Nov. 30 at Gilchrist Hospice Center. The Hydes resident was 79.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of George A. Hardy, who founded...Tags: Ocean City, Lincoln University, Companies and Corporations, Alzheimer's Disease, Economy, Business and Finance
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BSO to premiere concert version of 'Christmas Carol'
Composer Bob Christianson is nothing if not versatile.
He wrote a lot of pulsating music that accompanied episodes about several, um, energetic women in New York on the HBO series "Sex and the City." He has provided themes for Travel Channel's "Mysteries...Tags: ESPN (tv network), Music Industry, Travel Channel (tv network), Carnegie Hall, Charles Dickens
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Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance names new director
![Jeannie Howe, former president of <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/station-north/performing-arts/drama/everyman-theatre-baltimore-theater">Everyman Theatre</a>'s board of directors, has been appointed executive director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, effective Jan. 3.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66893538-20110035.jpg "Jeannie Howe, former president of <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/station-north/performing-arts/drama/everyman-theatre-baltimore-theater\">Everyman Theatre</a>'s board of directors, has been appointed executive director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, effective Jan. 3.")
Jeannie Howe, former president of Everyman Theatre's board of directors, has been appointed executive director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, effective Jan. 3.
She succeeds J. Buck Jabaily, who is stepping down from the GBCA post after...Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture
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Rethinking the Baltimore art scene for 2012
In the past 12 months, some especially high-energy creators have relocated from other metropolises and set up shop within city limits. While a scrappy inventiveness isn't new here — far from it — it could be that the city is reaching a...Tags: Lobbying, Baltimore School for the Arts, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Museums
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Goin' Off: Shodekeh performs with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra on Jan. 5-8
![<span style="font-size: medium;">"I can do sleigh bells," beatboxer Shodekeh tells me over the phone from Towson University near Baltimore, Md., where he works as a dance accompanist. Worried that I’d turn the conversation into a novelty-act session of "do this, do that," I hesitate to ask if he'll do the sleigh bells for me. </span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/310478000-27074521.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\">\"I can do sleigh bells,\" beatboxer Shodekeh tells me over the phone from Towson University near Baltimore, Md., where he works as a dance accompanist. Worried that I’d turn the conversation into a novelty-act session of \"do this, do that,\" I hesitate to ask if he'll do the sleigh bells for me. </span>")
"I can do sleigh bells," beatboxer Shodekeh tells me over the phone from Towson University near Baltimore, Md., where he works as a dance accompanist. Worried that I’d turn the conversation into a novelty-act session of "do this, do that," I...Tags: Music Industry, MTV (tv network), Music, Culture, Marin Alsop
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