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    Jan 21, 2009 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  1. Franklin, Perlman, Ma add musical flourishes to Obama inauguration

    In addition to the traditional marches and flourishes from a military band, the inaugural ceremony included two remarkable musical interludes. The first was provided by Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, whose dynamic, gospel-inflected delivery of "My...

    Tags: Aaron Copland, Itzhak Perlman, Music Industry, Peabody Conservatory, Yo-Yo Ma

  2. May 16, 2004 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  3. 'Inherently unequal'

    Sun Staff
    On May 17, 1954, Baltimore was a gritty blue-collar town that had the bustle of a northern industrial center and the Jim Crow laws and traditions of Dixie. Whites and blacks sweated together in the city's mills and shipyards, but segregation affected...

    Tags: Arts, Civil Rights, Thurgood Marshall, University of Maryland, College Park, African Americans

  4. Sep 8, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
  5. Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney among Kennedy Center honorees

    Gold Derby
    The Kennedy Center has announced the five performers to be feted at the upcoming 33rd edition of its honors: daytime TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey; two musical titans -- pop superstar Paul McCartney and country crooner Merle Haggard; and two Broadway...
  6. Mar 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
  7. Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, March 1, 1941

    The Daily Mirror
    March 1, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about Marian Anderson and Tom Treanor has the story of Schuyler Standish, 13, who just enrolled at UCLA. Katharine Hepburn has promised director Garson Kanin a yes or no in 30 days. Meanwhile he......
  8. Nov 7, 2010 |Story| Associated Press
  9. Shirley Verrett dies at 79; acclaimed mezzo-soprano

    Shirley Verrett, an acclaimed American mezzo-soprano and soprano praised for her blazing intensity during a career that spanned four decades, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was 79.
    Shirley Verrett, an acclaimed American mezzo-soprano and soprano praised for her blazing intensity during a career that spanned four decades, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich. She was 79. Verrett, one of the top opera singers of the 1970s and '80s, had...

    Tags: Shirley, Luciano Pavarotti, Colleges and Universities, New York City, James Earl Jones

  10. Jun 2, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
  11. Acclaimed conductor DePreist to advise troubled Pasadena Symphony and Pops

    Culture Monster
    The economically troubled, controversy-racked Pasadena Symphony and Pops announced Wednesday that it has hired an artistic advisor – and, for two October concerts , a conductor -- in James DePreist, who led the Oregon Symphony for more than 20 years.......
  12. Feb 10, 2009 |Story| Associated Press
  13. Exhibits, events mark Lincoln bicentennial Feb. 12

    The Associated Press
    WASHINGTON – Some of the biggest celebrations of the bicentennial of Abe Lincoln's birthday kick off in Washington on his Feb. 12 birthdate. But you can also catch many Lincoln-related exhibits and events later this year and in other parts of the country....

    Tags: Easter, Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Abraham Lincoln, Springfield

  14. Jan 19, 2009 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  15. Barack Obama at Lincoln Memorial

    WASHINGTON — It was a day that combined high-minded political rhetoric with the very best of pop culture. Tens of thousands of citizens, a throng more than a mile long on the National Mall, braved cold weather and long security lines to attend a historic concert celebrating the country's first black president, held at the feet of the monument honoring the country's great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.
    Washington Bureau
    WASHINGTON — It was a day that combined high-minded political rhetoric with the very best of pop culture. Tens of thousands of citizens, a throng more than a mile long on the National Mall, braved cold weather and long security lines to attend a...

    Tags: Pete Seeger, Garth Brooks, Queen Latifah, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall

  16. Nov 12, 2008 |Story| Associated Press
  17. News from around the world

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Inauguration: Tickets and hotels hard to come by WASHINGTON – Tickets to balls and other events related to the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration will be hard to come by, but you can always join the crowds along the parade route, and Washington tourism...

    Tags: AMC (tv network), Society, WestJet Airlines Ltd., Facebook, Weather Reports

  18. Nov 23, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  19. Saving with Honest Abe

    Next year our nation's capital marks the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth with the rededication of the Lincoln Memorial, a re-enactment of Marian Anderson's concert at the memorial and other festivities. Keeping up with the Lincoln...

    Tags: Washington, DC, Lincoln Logs Limited, Abraham Lincoln

  20. Mar 30, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Blanche Thebom dies at 94; operatic mezzo-soprano

    Blanche Thebom, a mezzo-soprano who was a mainstay at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for decades, died March 23 at her home in San Francisco of heart failure, said Dr. Peter Greenberg, a longtime family friend. She was 94.
    Times staff and wire reports
    Blanche Thebom, a mezzo-soprano who was a mainstay at the Metropolitan Opera in New York for decades, died March 23 at her home in San Francisco of heart failure, said Dr. Peter Greenberg, a longtime family friend. She was 94. Thebom performed more...

    Tags: The New York Times, Moscow (Russia), Colleges and Universities, Little Rock, San Francisco

  22. Jan 19, 2009 |Story| WXIN-LTV
  23. Big stars rock the Lincoln Memorial

    Reporting from Washington -- It was a day that combined inspiring political rhetoric with the very best of pop culture. Tens of thousands of citizens, a throng more than a mile long on the National Mall, braved frigid weather and long security lines to...

    Tags: Pete Seeger, Eleanor Roosevelt, Queen Latifah, Garth Brooks, Thurgood Marshall

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