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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: Concerts, Culture, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Culture, 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: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Computer Hardware, Culture, Coughing
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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: Entertainment, Concerts, Culture, Cell Phones, Music
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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: Hanukkah, Artists, Cirque du Soleil, Culture, Christopher Reeve
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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: Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), Tameka Cottle, Television Industry, Travel Channel (tv network), Baltimore City College
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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: Baltimore School for the Arts, Arts, Arts, Culture, Inner Harbor
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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: Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Music Industry, Concerts, Culture, Hartford Symphony Orchestra
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Music review: The Baltimore Symphony at Segerstrom Concert Hall
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Marin Alsop: Readying the notes on legendary ladies
It's still late-summer, but classical musicians can hardly wait to get back into the concert hall for the 2011-2012 season.
One of the first to return is the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Marin Alsop leads a Gala Celebration concert Sept. 10 at...Tags: Christianity, Howard Community College, Music Industry, Howard County, Holidays
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Celebrate the symphony at BSO's gala fundraiser
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will hold its annual Celebration Gala fundraiser Sat., Sept. 10, 6:30 p.m., at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The event will offer patrons an evening of entertainment and fine dining and a concert (at 8:30 p.m.)...Tags: Annapolis, Patterson Park, Anne Arundel County, Essex (Baltimore, Maryland), Festive Events
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BSO captures Baltimore in music
Some of the loudest, most propulsive sounds to be heard outside of an Ozzfest arena show hit unsuspecting Baltimore Symphony Orchestra audiences last year during a circus-theme program devised by music director Marin Alsop.
One of the thrashing works...Tags: Music Industry, New Jersey, Aaron Copland, Arts and Culture, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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100 things we love about Baltimore -- Printable list
Baltimore Sun reporterA moody tavern. An extraordinary cocktail. The easy lapping of bay water against the banks of the Inner Harbor. Duckpin lanes. Old Bay. Art in an otherwise empty storefront. For all of these things, and for so many more, people love Baltimore. People feel...Tags: The Wire (tv program), Nancy Pelosi, Baltimore School for the Arts, Rivers, Lifestyle and Leisure
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