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Cohen: Palin isn't nearly qualified
''It seems to me that Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.'' So said John McCain about Barack Obama. Now, with much more credibility, Obama could say the same thing about McCain. Regardless of how he might extol...Tags: National Government, Government, Elections, Betty Comden, Sarah Palin
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Classical Music
AVANT-GARDE DANCE Butoh is a Japanese avant-garde dance form characterized by highly stylized gestures, often grotesque and violent, alternating with periods of stillness. It is endlessly fascinating to watch, and Friday night the Japanese-American dance...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Moravian College, Dance, John Cage, Music Industry
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Collegiate Chorale conductor dies at 55 in NYC
Robert Bass, the longtime musical director of New York City's renowned Collegiate Chorale, has died at age 55. Bass, who underwent a heart transplant last year, died at his home in Manhattan on Monday from complications of amyloidosis, a rare blood...Tags: Music Theater, NBC, Carnegie Hall, Diseases, Heart Disease
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Theater season preview
Sentinel Staff WriterAmway Shakespeare Opportunity Twitter of the Shrew will be at a site to be announced. The Shakespeariment will be at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park, 101 N. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Details: 407-792-9421. Twitter of the Shrew: Feb. 14....Tags: Tom Jones, L Frank Baum, Elvis Presley, Sherman Edwards, Walt Disney Amphitheater
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Shakespeare through the modern ages: on stage and screen
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTraditional or not traditional? That is the question when directors mount productions of William Shakespeare's plays. Over the decades, theater, movie and even television versions of the Bard's plays have defied convention, some turning them into...Tags: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Jerome Robbins, Broadway, Heath Ledger
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Inara George and Van Dyke Parks ***
Sentinel Pop Music CriticAn Invitation A relative newcomer and a music veteran collaborate on this lushly orchestrated collection, which unfolds like a cross between a Broadway score and Leonard Bernstein. Inara George, the daughter of Little Feat's Lowell George, doesn't... -
TODAY'S PICKS
AMERICAN MASTERS (9 p.m., WNET/13) - In "Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note," friends and colleagues reflect on Bernstein's influences and concerns (repeat). OLYMPICS (8 p.m., NBC/4) - Events include gymnastics, swimming, beach volleyball,...Tags: Denis Leary, Ray Romano, Laurence Olivier, John Leguizamo, Greer Garson
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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: Seiji Ozawa, Serge Koussevitzky, John Ashbery, Literature, Richard Strauss
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'West Side Story' to return to Broadway
West Side Story returns to Broadway in 2009. The classic New York musical about the Sharks, the Jets and the ill-fated love affair involving a young man and woman caught between the gangs opens in March, producers Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander and...Tags: Music Theater, Jerome Robbins, Broadway
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NYC PICKS
FUN N' FREE Tour Lincoln Square, gateway to the Upper West Side. Walking tour goes to sites linked to Florence Mills, Mae West and Leonard Bernstein. Sunday at 2p.m. Meet at southwest corner of Broadway and 60th St.; 212-581-3774; lincolnbid.org....Tags: Mae West, Upper West Side
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REDCAT's New Original Works (NOW) Festival
Times Music CriticThe third (and final) program of the fifth season of the New Original Works (NOW) Festival at REDCAT on Thursday night was handed over to three feminist -- or maybe post-feminist -- artists, with a secure sense of irony but a less secure sense of...Tags: Music Theater, Dance, Dancing, Folk Music, Nastassja Kinski
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Bernstein daughter recalls life with Dad
Chicago Tribune reporterThe late composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein was a man of prodigious talent and appetites whose New York apartments were often turned into the most wonderfully stimulating of salons. No great surprise, as we learn in August Town & Country, reality was...Tags: John Updike, Town & Country Corporation, Juvenile Delinquency, Classical Music, Robert Mugabe
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