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THURSDAY Public dance/lessons: Grant Park, 601 S. Michigan Ave., Spirit of Music Garden. Dance lessons 6 to 7 p.m. with Passistas Samba Dance Group, dance from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. to Orquestra de Samba. Concert: Millennium Park, Michigan Avenue and...Tags: Road Transportation, John Belushi, Poetry, Culture, Dan Aykroyd
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Festivals
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. 25th Annual Taste of Lincoln Avenue: Covering six city blocks, this sprawling neighborhood fest includes five entertainment stages, more than 40 national and local music acts, 300-plus...Tags: Lincolnshire, Dance, Classical Music, Washington Park, Festive Event
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Joffrey's move, Kirov's return highlight fall events
Chicago Tribune criticPlans are coming together for two big events this fall—the Joffrey Ballet's move into its glittering new digs at State and Randolph Streets, and the Kirov Ballet's return to the Auditorium Theatre in "Giselle." The Joffrey will hold a series of...Tags: House, Dance, Dancing, Joffrey Ballet
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This week's deals
The Washington PostThe week's best travel bargains around the globe: Adventure Life is offering discounts of $750 per person on a Galapagos Islands cruise. The deal applies to the Aug. 6 departure of the Monserrat I. Price now starts at $1,995 per person double for a...Tags: Cruises, Tourism and Leisure, Europe Sailing, Sailing, Washington Post Company
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Grant Park Music Festival
The superb Grant Park Chorus, under guest chorus director Joseph Cullen, joins the orchestra to perform Rachmaninoff's cantata "The Bells" as part of an all-Russian choral program. 6:30 p.m. (repeated Friday); free. Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park,...Tags: Woody Harrelson, Armed Forces, Defense, Grant Park
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The suite life of Mandela
Chicago Tribune criticThe life of Nelson Mandela—marked by tragic injustice and transcendent heroism—may be too vast a subject to be encompassed by a single musical composition. But that did not stop Chicago composer-trumpeter Orbert Davis from attempting the...Tags: Miriam Makeba, Charles Ives, Music Industry
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Coldplay
United Center, 1901 W. Madison St.; 312-559-1212. Brian Eno specializes in reinvention, but on "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," the producer merely spruces up the U.K. quartet's world-conquering sound. This is a band just about out of...Tags: United Center, Batman, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Ravinia Park, IMAX
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Fifty years under the spell of bossa nova
Chicago Tribune criticIt's as fresh as a summer breeze rolling in gently off the waves, as young as the sun-worshipers crowding the white-hot beaches of Rio. Yet bossa nova—the serenely seductive music that Brazil gave the world—this summer turns 50, an absurd...Tags: James Taylor, John Belushi, Ella Fitzgerald, Sting, Elvis Presley
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Where to find bossa nova
In concert Two for Brazil. Tenor saxophonist Greg Fishman and singer-guitarist Paulinho Garcia rank among the great duos in bossa nova; 7:30to 11:30 p.m. Sunday at the Checkerboard Lounge, 5201 S. Harper Ct.; $10; 773-684-1472. "50 Years of Bossa Nova....Tags: Society, Dance, Scott Adams, Dancing, Checkerboard Lounge
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Grant Park's 'Big Sur' concerto captures the West Coast
Chicago Tribune criticOn Wednesday, the Grant Park Orchestra under former principal conductor Hugh Wolff gave an estimated 13,000 listeners at Millennium Park a bracing shot of new American music that included the Chicago premiere of John Adams' "The Dharma at Big Sur," a...Tags: John Adams, Wars and Interventions, Jack Kerouac, Hinduism, Classical Music
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