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Like/Dislike: Katherine Needleman, BSO musician
"It was a compulsion. I had no other choice," Katherine Needleman said regarding what lead her down the path to a career in music. "I would've been a pianist except my technique was too limited." Though she's experimented with many other instruments,...
Tags: Culture, Music, Ellicott City, Concerts, Music Industry
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Some memory changes in aging brain are normal
Dementia and its evil twin, Alzheimer's, may have moved ahead of cancer on the list of most feared diseases, especially among baby boomers, who have begun to believe it is their inescapable fate if they have the bad luck to live too long.
So we grasp...Tags: Medical Research, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Medical Specialization, Alzheimer's Disease, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Elizabeth 'Libby' Winstead, 73
Elizabeth McKenrick Winstead, an award-winning knitter and Bryn Mawr School graduate who established a scholarship fund there, died Tuesday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 73. Mrs. Winstead, who went by the nickname Libby, was born...
Tags: Charles Street, Christianity, Hobbies, Johns Hopkins University, Colleges and Universities
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Dr. Ernst F. L. Niedermeyer
Dr. Ernst Friedrich Lepold Niedermeyer, who was a leading researcher, author, clinician and pioneer in the field of electroencephalogy and its use in epilepsy and other brain research, died Thursday of colon cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The...Tags: Medical Research, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Christianity, Medical Specialization, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Counting on the Schubert Octet this Sunday at Three
Doing the math on the Schubert Octet speaks well for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and also for Howard County. That's because seven of the eight members of this chamber music ensemble are BSO players, and four of its members live in Howard County. The...Tags: Christianity, Music, Ellicott City, Anglicanism
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Book fair helps 'bind' parents and students at Rodgers Forge Elementary
Sophie Fineran, library media specialist at Rodgers Forge Elementary School, tells us that the school's recent book fair was a great success. Fineran feels the excellent result was due, in large part, to the parent co-chairs, Leslie Wagner and Tricia...Tags: Arts
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Rhapsody in Gershwin: BSO salutes George and Ira
Another pops program devoted to George Gershwin? Why not? This weekend's Gershwin feast being presented on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's SuperPops series will hardly be the last.
Nearly 75 years after his death at the age of 39, the composer's...Tags: Porgy and Bess (movie), Michael Feinstein, Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Movies
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Charles O. Smith, health care analyst
Charles Orestus Smith, a retired CareFirst Medicare contractor who was an avid fan of the opera and symphony, died Jan. 3 of a heart attack at his home in the Northway Apartments in Guilford. He was 74.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Guilford, Mr. Smith...Tags: Heart Attack, Christianity, Government Health Care, Georgetown University, Culture
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Perlman leads BSO in stirring Brahms' Fourth
The classical music world, ever on the hunt for bright young stars with box office snap, still has some reliably surefire veterans. One of them is Itzhak Perlman, the most popular, widely recognized violinist since Heifetz. Tickets for Perlman's guest...Tags: Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Culture, Music, Culture, Concerts
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On face value, Hahn-Bin delivers a new experience
A tuxedo seems like the one sartorial item that Hahn-Bin might not wear when this 24-year-old violinist appears for the Candlelight Concert Society on Saturday, Jan. 14, at 8 p.m. in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.
This hotshot performer...Tags: Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Hall, Itzhak Perlman, Concerts, Seoul (South Korea)
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Blockbusters from the BSO
It is possible to quibble with the idea of cramming three blockbuster works into a single program, but the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra carries it off. Ravel's "Bolero," that brilliant study in rhythmic and melodic reiteration, not to mention crescendo,...Tags: Carney (music group), Culture, Concerts, Music, Van Cliburn
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Live performances learn to live with noisy phones
It was the cellphone heard 'round the world.
A bouncy marimba ring tone on an iPhone erupted during the final soft, almost unbearably poignant minutes of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 at a recent New York Philharmonic concert in Lincoln Center.
Music...Tags: Justice System, Celebrities, Media Industry, Cell Phones, Opera (genre)
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