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On this day in history
On Oct. 10, 1813, composer Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole, Italy. In 1845 the U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md. In 1886 the tuxedo dinner jacket made its American debut at the autumn ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. In 1911 revolutionaries...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Adlai Stevenson, Awards and Prizes, Summer Olympics, Weaponry
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Heralded guests boost the Philharmonic
Special to the SentinelThe Orlando Philharmonic opened its 2008-09 season, the third under Maestro Christopher Wilkins, on Saturday evening at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre with a wide-ranging concert that had something for nearly everyone. The focus of these varied...Tags: Classical Music, University of Central Florida, Dmitri Shostakovich, Armed Forces, Richard Strauss
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Andrew Shore joins 'Falstaff'
English baritone Andrew Shore will replace Ambrogio Maestri in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff" in the Lyric Opera of Chicago production opening Jan. 28 at the Civic Opera House. Maestri has withdrawn because of the recent death of his...Tags: Classical Music, Civic Opera House, Music Theater
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Giuliani: Rudy runs on 'results'
Washington BureauAsk Rudy Giuliani why he ought to be president, and he's likely to reach into his suit pocket and produce a laminated to-do list. "Stay on offense against Islamic terrorism," he says in his staccato style. "Cut spending. Lower taxes. End illegal...Tags: Pat Robertson, Prosecution, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Fires, Defense
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BSO's gala features fiery moments and an eclectic lineup
sun music criticTalk about your day of judgment. Minutes after Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra wrapped up a high-octane gala program Saturday night -- a program that included the fire-and-brimstone Dies Irae from Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem -- a propane...Tags: Music Theater, Maurice Joseph Ravel, Johns Hopkins University, Folk Music, Marin Alsop
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Cultural scene holding its own
Special To The SunFew speak of Annapolis' cultural life with greater authority than Anna Greenberg. A self-described "professional volunteer" who has twice served as president of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra's Board of Trustees and continues to be active on other...Tags: Francis Poulenc, Academic Progress, Music Theater, August Wilson, Culture
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The Lure of the Luxurious Lakes
Times Staff WriterA 10-piece band with a harp and an accordion cranked out a mambo from a stage in the overflowing plaza. A tall man with blue-black hair beckoned my wife over to a long table. "Vino rosso?" he asked, and he poured Bobbie two glasses of a robust red wine....Tags: Music Theater, William Wordsworth, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Ray Charles, Umberto Giordano
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Ravinia 2001
Tickets for the Ravinia summer schedule are on sale now at www.ravinia.org Christoph Eschenbach has ended the suspense. He is not leaving Ravinia — at least not until after the 2003 summer season. The festival has extended his contract through 2003, his...Tags: Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zukerman, Popular Music, Arnold Schoenberg, Ceremonies
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Classical review, Christoph Eschenbach conducts the CSO at Ravinia
Tribune music criticThe centenary of Giuseppe Verdi's death seems to have inspired an epidemic of copycat-itis among the area's leading music producers. Two months after the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus presented Verdi's "Messa da Requiem" downtown under Daniel...Tags: Classical Music, Grant Park, Music Industry, Chicago Symphony, Epidemics and Plagues
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Opera review, 'I Lombardi' by da Corneto at Church of St. Hilary
Tribune music criticOnly 159 years late, Giuseppe Verdi's fourth opera, "I Lombardi," received its Chicago premiere by da Corneto Opera over the weekend at Church of St. Hilary. This product of Verdi's "galley years" — it followed his first big success, "Nabucco" — is an...Tags: Classical Music, Music Theater, James Earl Jones
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Opera review, 'A Masked Ball' at da Corneto Opera
Special to The TribuneDa Corneto Opera bills itself as "Chicago's concert opera company." Those key words mean that da Corneto focuses on music, nothing else. It concentrates on singers and orchestra — the bare-bones essence of opera — all the time, money and expertise...Tags: Classical Music, Music Theater
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'Automobile Graveyard,' Verdi opera shine
'Automobile Graveyard' at the Trapdoor Theatre "Automobile Graveyard," a post-apocalyptic tragi-farce from 1958 in which the principal character ends up beaten and crucified on a bicycle, is not your typical summer fare. But some folks are clearly still...Tags: Waste Management and Pollution Control, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Automotive Equipment, Vehicles, Music Theater
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