YOU might not expect to find a polished young ensemble like the Parker String Quartet playing music by Beethoven, Bartok and Ligeti — or collaborating ...
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Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler has undergone a successful operation after a string of health problems. The singer, who turned 27 on Saturday, had been ...
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The Hole frontwoman says she has little use for most of the items and wants to give away them at the famous auction house Christies. Love said: “I'm ...
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Casablanca/Universal Republic recording artist, Mika, is making history in the UK only weeks before his acclaimed new album Life In Cartoon Motion debuts ...
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Everyone knows that Google bought YouTube last week, but it's hard to say what this so-called GooTube video service will look like a year from now. Just ...
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Pop princess Britney Spears has spoken out about a string of recent photos showing her partying minus her underwear, admitting that she had probably taken ...
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He was 15 years old at the time and quickly became known in hacker circles as "DVD Jon," a wunderkind of reverse engineering who tore down cumbersome ...
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Before he died in November of 2007 of brain cancer, Ernie Barbour made the drive from his home in the East Bay to visit a friend and teaching colleague ...
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This was the year of blockbusters and anniversaries. Mozart was inescapable, Shostakovich hardly less so. Much less visible was the 150th anniversary of ...
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Believing gangs and Mozart don't mix, city police and Pierce Transit officials are mounting a classical attack on a growing problem of street gangs at ...
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PEOPLE who pay the least attention to classical music probably know Mozart's clarinet concerto and quintet, two indelibly beautiful works. But how many ...
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I meet the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires on the morning after she had given one of those limpid, lucid, subtly shaded performances of a Mozart concerto ...
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Walking briskly past Lincoln Center with a violin case in hand and a suitcase in tow, David Juritz looked like a busy orchestral musician arriving in the ...
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Mozart wrote only one Requiem, but in recent years, music journalists have written about 80 requiems for the compact disc, mostly in the key of boo-hoo ...
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PEOPLE who pay the least attention to classical music probably know Mozart's clarinet concerto and quintet, two indelibly beautiful works. But how many ...
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I meet the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires on the morning after she had given one of those limpid, lucid, subtly shaded performances of a Mozart concerto ...
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Most amateur orchestras expect their players to be able to scrape or blow a few notes to order. But no such restrictive demands are made on those wanting ...
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Composer Kevin Volans' new piano concerto, "Atlantic Crossing," is scheduled for its world premiere in Davies Symphony Hall on Wednesday night, and ...
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