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Composer Elliott Carter at 99
Times Music CriticON THE morning I visited Elliott Carter last month, he was staying in a red cottage in this quaint village in the Berkshires. Five miles up the road is Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony, which was in the midst of hosting a 10-concert, 47-work...Tags: Music Theater, Carnegie Hall, Academic Progress, Charles Ives, Festive Event
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Art goes to war
WITH THE Olympics in full swing and the presidential election on the horizon, patriotic themes are in the air, and the Norton Simon Museum hopes to tap into that dialogue by exploring the connection between modern politics and visual arts in its... -
Laura Bush Visits New Orleans Schools
First Lady Laura Bush visits a New Orleans high school that was given 40 pieces of great American art as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities' Picturing America project.
The project gives public schools and libraries reproductions of...Tags: Reproduction, Winslow Homer, Abraham Lincoln, Laura Bush, Medical Specialization
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Babylon village: Why it's beating the bust
lisa.doll-bruno@newsday.comWHY IT'S BEATING THE BUST: Atmosphere. From the Great South Bay to friendly mom-and-pop shops, sources give this village the Norman Rockwell nod. Still, real estate agents are cautious. "Babylon is holding its value, but it's not immune," says Georgia...Tags: Sales, Banking, Long Island Rail Road, West Islip, Town of Babylon
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Orlando Science Center puts you in 'Rockwell's America'
Sentinel ColumnistThe best art transports observers to another place, and now Orlando Science Center visitors can stroll right into life-size "paintings" at its "Rockwell's America" exhibit. Artist Norman Rockwell excelled at capturing moments in time, painting familiar...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Orlando Science Center
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Live: John Mellencamp
Special to The TimesJohn Mellencamp is ready for your bad news. At the Greek Theatre on Thursday, stories of hard times fueled his songs, just as they always have, with Mellencamp's raspy drawl calling on the rest of us to join his bittersweet jubilee. His 90-minute set...Tags: Philosophy, Tom Petty, Family, Popular Music, John Mellencamp
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One big horse, a good hit of nostalgia at Orange County Fair
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHe's the Shaquille O'Neal of horses. No . . . bigger. Weighing 3,030 pounds and standing 19.5 hands high (6 feet 6 at the withers), Hercules the Giant Horse is the Yao Ming of the county fair circuit. But he doesn't dunk or rebound; Hercules patiently...Tags: Shaquille O'Neal, Fergie, Animals
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Double-duty house
Special to the SunThe decision to buy a vacation house puts a number of factors in play, especially in the current market, which is as flat as week-old beer. According to a National Association of Realtors (NAR) survey, sales of vacation houses decreased by more than 30...Tags: Lewes, Rivers, Bodies of Water, Nancy Taylor, Chestertown
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Hartford's Little League Fields Disgrace The City
One Saturday morning a few weeks ago, parents and organizers of the North End Little League in Hartford were proudly set to host teams from the region at the fields located next to Simpson Waverly School. It was their city, their field, their kids in...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Murder, Family, Rick Green
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Baseball's Hampton Whalers: a new game in town
Special to NewsdayThe East End is known for its beaches, summer cachet and untouched landscapes, but Rusty Leaver wants it known for something else - baseball. He wanted that so much, he started a team. And so the Hampton Whalers were born. A team of college players, its...Tags: Jerry Seinfeld, C.W. Post Campus, New York Mets, Colleges and Universities, Long Island University
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John Lautner's ground-breaking style
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFEW GRASPED how John Lautner used architecture to embrace the natural world. He opened a Sunset Boulevard diner to the sky and was dismayed to see it become a symbol of "Googie" Atomic Age design. His flying saucer-shaped Chemosphere residence, conceived...Tags: Architecture, Engineering, Aerospace Manufacturing, Frank Lloyd Wright, NASA
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Posters reinterpret 'Four Freedoms'
Associated PressMIAMI BEACH, Fla.—More than 60 years after Norman Rockwell's quintessentially American "Four Freedoms" posters were created, the illustrator is inspiring other artists to delve into the meaning of democracy through art. Sixty contemporary artists...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Lawrence, Florida International University, Government, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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