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BSO lights a new fire under 'Joan of Arc'
At the age of 16, a French villager named Jeanne d'Arc responded to what she said were the voices of saints, exhorting her to take up arms against English invaders. Dressed in male clothing, she led troops to victory in battle after battle before being...Tags: Brother (music group), Entertainment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Leonard Bernstein, Human Interest
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Monster Mash: Rembrandt found; details on Shepard Fairey assault
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Critic's Notebook: Marin Alsop and the Cabrillo Festival
Culture MonsterMark Swed looks at Marin Alsop's 20 years as music director of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz. A laid-back town has adopted a dynamo, but lost some of its musical authenticity.... -
L.A. Phil wins national award for innovative programming
Culture MonsterThis year’s Lakers couldn’t manage a three-peat as champions, but the Los Angeles Philharmonic just did. For the third consecutive year, the home team has copped the Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming by an orchestra. The $3,000... -
Taking an Ax to a Brahms piano concerto
Some musicians develop firm ideas about how to play a particular piece and stick to them no matter what. Others keep their options wide open.
Emanuel Ax is one of the latter, which helps explain why this Polish-born pianist has been a major force in the...Tags: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Emanuel Ax, Arts and Culture
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BSO review: A mix of high spirits, high drama
The penultimate program of the Baltimore Symphony's season balances feel-good orchestral pieces by Osvaldo Golijov and Benjamin Britten against a piano concerto by Johannes Brahms packed with darkly emotional drama. It makes for an engrossing combination....Tags: Emanuel Ax, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Brahms, Galileo Galilei, Memphis
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The music of summer, alfresco and elsewhere
Culture MonsterThe classical music crowd gets out of town -- or at least out of doors -- to hear music in the summer.... -
Summer Concerts 2010: Classical and World Music
Sundays
Sundays Live at LACMA: Weekly one-hour classical chamber music concerts and recitals by soloists and ensembles. This series has been running since 1948. Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. 6 p.m. Free. http:/...Tags: Latin Music (genre), Entertainment, BBC, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Dancing
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The snow that ate the arts
![<span class="dropcap_large">T</span>he balmy strains of Gershwin's "Summertime" went unheard at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. No one got a glimpse of "The Glass Menagerie" at Rep Stage or lived through the trauma of "Two Rooms" at Everyman Theatre. The adventures of the long-nosed hero of "Cyrano" went unlived at Center Stage.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-02/52114547-09051555.jpg "<span class="dropcap_large\">T</span>he balmy strains of Gershwin's \"Summertime\" went unheard at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. No one got a glimpse of \"The Glass Menagerie\" at Rep Stage or lived through the trauma of \"Two Rooms\" at Everyman Theatre. The adventures of the long-nosed hero of \"Cyrano\" went unlived at Center Stage.")
Baltimore Sun reporterThe balmy strains of Gershwin's "Summertime" went unheard at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. No one got a glimpse of "The Glass Menagerie" at Rep Stage or lived through the trauma of "Two Rooms" at Everyman Theatre. The adventures of the long-nosed hero of...Tags: Tickets, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Morgan State University, Education, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Peering into the troubled mind of Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann heard so much music in his head, he felt compelled to compose.
"I cannot help it," he wrote to his wife, Clara, "and should like to sing myself to death, like a nightingale."
When he died at the age of 46 in an asylum, the only sounds he...Tags: Entertainment, Colleges and Universities, Johns Hopkins University, Health, Medical Specialization
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Baltimore Celebrity Smackdown -- vote for Sanjaya
Dining@LargeAmong the thirty-two celebrities bracketed in this year's Baltimore Celebrity Smackdown are four with relevance to this blog. In the first round, Bryan Voltaggio is competing with Marin Alsop, Timothy Dean has drawn Laura Lippman, Cindy Wolf takes on...Tags: Duff Goldman, Anne Tyler, Celebrities, Nick Markakis
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Baltimore Celebrity Smackdown -- which chefs will make it through?
Dining@LargeThe first round of voting in the Sun's annual Baltimore Celebrity Smackdown wraps up today. Timothy Dean is trailing badly behind Laura Lippman and Bryan Voltaggio is taking a beating from Marin Alsop. But Duff Goldman is maintaining a comfortable-...Tags: Duff Goldman, Anne Tyler
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