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Glorious sounds soar above season of economic gloom
No musical news story in 2012 drew greater media attention, inside and outside Chicago, than the strike that silenced the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 48 hours in late September. The cliffhanger was resolved just in time for the CSO to fulfill a...
Tags: Italy, Grant Park, Poetry, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Millennium Park
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Classically Trained: Notes for the new year
The Pacific Symphony has some crowd-pleasing music set to bring in the New Year. The series at 8 p.m. each night from Jan. 10 to 12 will feature Beethoven's Violin Concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade." Grammy-winning Canadian violinist James...Tags: Culture, Entertainment, Concerts, Arts and Culture, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Patrick Stewart: ‘Next Generation,’ ‘X-Men’ and Hollywood history
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comJust before the USS Enterprise embarked on a new mission with “Star Trek: The Next Generation” in 1987, an article ...... -
'Les Miserables' aims to hit high note in history of film musicals
This story has been updated. See below. Few things are more carefully choreographed than a movie musical, but director Tom Hooper wanted to steep his big-screen adaptation of "Les Misérables" in some gritty reality. So he took a page from Ridley Scott's...Tags: Television, Screen Actors Guild, The King's Speech (movie), Celebrities, Anne Hathaway
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'Gangnam Style' by Psy gets opera style treatment
With more than 1 billion YouTube hits, "Gangnam Style" by the Korean singer Psy is the most popular music video of the year. It has been imitated, parodied and re-purposed by fans around the world. It has been remixed in many different musical styles,...
Tags: Entertainment, Human Interest, Social Media, Music, Justin Bieber
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New Carlos Rubio novel contains intrigue
Name: Carlos Rubio Age: 68 City in which you reside: Martinsburg, W.Va. Day job: I taught at Shepherd in the English and Language Department from 2001 to 2009. At the moment I work with the Education Department as a student teacher supervisor. Book...
Tags: Italy, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Book, Cuba
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The year of John Cage
Once, when asked how he thought history would consider his work, John Cage responded that he had made so much, getting rid of it all would be very difficult. Twenty years after his death he has been spectacularly proven right. This year marked the 100th...
Tags: Washington, DC, Japan, Radio, Andy Warhol, Blu-ray Discs
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Weekend Talk Shows for Dec. 22-23: Placido Domingo; Ben Affleck; Adele
SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Chris Matthews Show Annual political awards. (N) 5 p.m. KNBC McLaughlin Group 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY Today Holiday travel; shopping after Christmas; holiday potluck. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC Good Morning...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Asa Hutchinson, Shootings, Taylor Swift
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Peace on Earth
It is 4:58 p.m. and all is quiet on this cold winter's eve. As usual, the calves are munching at their feed bunks; the sun is setting with a blaze of sky blue pink; my nose is twitching from the bitter cold; and nothing much exciting is happening at the...Tags: Deere and Company
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Connecticut Historian Writes '1600s Soap Opera'
The Hartford CourantMissy Wolfe didn't start out researching the life of Puritan matron Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett. She wanted to learn about a Colonial-era Indian massacre in Cos Cob. "During the course of that, I kept coming up with references to Elizabeth...Tags: Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture
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Bryce Pinkham Joins "Kiss Me Kate"/Yale/Cole Porter Ta-Do
Hartford CourantBryce Pinkham (Broadway's "Ghost," off-Broadway's "The Orphans' Home Cycle"), opera singer Sari Gruber and Ethan Freeman will join Christopher Durang and Bobby Lopez to al all-Yale alum concert production of "Kiss Me Kate" for two performances, Saturday,...Tags: Entertainment, Culture, Lobbying, Politics, Entertainment Events
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Video/Q&A: 'Les Miserables' stars Eddie Redmayne and Samantha Barks
On a recent night in New York, “Les Miserables” stars Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and Samantha Barks re-purposed their singing skills for something less epic—karaoke. “Amanda was attempting some rap and then halfway in she...
Tags: Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Taylor Swift, Bohemian Rhapsody (song), Hugh Jackman
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