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Accordion: Not just for polkas anymore, say fans
Blame it on Lawrence Welk.
If you're unfamiliar with that name, members of the American Accordionists' Association will give you an extra-warm welcome to their festival in Baltimore this week.
Accordionists in this country have long struggled with the...Tags: Donovan, Astor Piazzolla, Music Industry, Bruce Springsteen, Dance
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Late NASA engineer thought like an "air molecule"
It was inevitable that the late Richard T. Whitcomb join the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Neil Armstrong and other luminaries in the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
Working at NASA Langley Research Center in the 1950s, Whitcomb redesigned the...Tags: NASA, Space Programs
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Music review: Boston Symphony makes Disney Hall debut
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the Boston Symphony's Walt Disney Concert Hall debut, with French conductor Ludovic Morlot also making his Los Angeles debut.... -
Shuttle: Boost or Bust for Langley?
NASA’s space shuttle program gave the United States unmatched access to space, fostered a new era of international cooperation and led to pioneering research of the solar system.
Determining its effect at Langley Research Center in Hampton is...Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, Technology, Research, Hampton Roads, NASA
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Grammy Hall 2012 inductees named
LOS ANGELES - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St., Bill Cosby's I Started Out as a Child comedy album and musicologist Harry Smith's widely influential Anthology of American Folk Music...Tags: Music, Ceremonies, Bruce Springsteen, Concerts, Freddy Fender
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Grammy Hall of Fame announces 2012 recordings inductees
Pop & HissThe Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is among 25 recordings selected for the 2012 Grammy Hall of Fame. Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main St." also are among the new Grammy Hall of Fame... -
Richard Whitcomb dies at 88; engineer's discoveries changed design of jets
Richard Whitcomb, a mechanical engineer who changed the way we fly today with three design innovations that made airplanes fly farther and faster using less fuel, has died. He was 88.
Whitcomb died of pneumonia Tuesday in Newport News, Va.
His...Tags: The Washington Post, Invention and Innovation, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Death, Coca-Cola
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Pacific Symphony's American Composers Festival has scores to settle
Carl St.Clair can clearly recall being in the third grade in his hometown of Yoakum, Texas, and being "marched down to the Grand Theater where we all got to see 'Ben-Hur.' I was totally captivated," he says. "The score was overwhelming to me."
Fifty...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Music Industry, Bernard Herrmann, Orson Welles, Star Wars (movie)
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Polkas, jazz and Dixieland at Mass: Lord have mercy
Times Staff WriterThe sanctuary of St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church resounded with the peal of a Dixieland trumpet playing "When the Saints Go Marching In." But in their entry down the aisle, the jubilant choir switched to the Greek liturgy: Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison,...Tags: Music Industry, Royal Caribbean International, The Pope, Hurricane Katrina (2005), The Happiest News!
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Classical review, Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
Special to the TribuneAt Sunday's concert by Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, conductor Alan Heatherington opened with some eloquent remarks about the solace music can provide in these troubled times. The program that...Tags: Aaron Copland
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Classical review, Mikko Franck conducts the CSO at Symphony Center
Tribune music criticThere would appear to be as many conductors of international caliber in Finland as there are, well, reindeer. Thursday night brought the Chicago Symphony Orchestra podium debut of the 23-year-old Mikko Franck. He wasted no time putting his stamp on the...Tags: Aaron Copland, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Music Industry, Daniel Barenboim, Howard Hanson
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John von Rhein's top 10 classical albums of 2002
++++++++++++++++++++ || Top 10 of 2002: - Greg Kot's rock picks - Howard Reich's jazz picks - John von Rhein's classical picks || ++++++++++++++++++++ Once again this year there was much gnashing of teeth throughout the music business about the...Tags: Music Industry, Sviatoslav Richter, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sony Corp., Yo-Yo Ma
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