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Renee Fleming on how to dress a diva
When Renee Fleming appears Sept. 15 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for the BSO's Gala Celebration, the appeal will be both sound and sight. The world-renowned soprano is famous not just for her voice, but for her gowns, designed for her by the...
Tags: Spanx, Inc., Diane Keaton, Academy Awards, Douglas Hannant, Christian Lacroix
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Art Modell, former Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns owner, dies at 87
The Baltimore SunArt Modell may have returned football to Baltimore, but in the eyes of the silver-haired owner, the Ravens were clearly a team of the people. Eleven years ago, amid a swirl of confetti following the Ravens' Super Bowl victory in Tampa, a tearful Mr....Tags: Baltimore Colts, Pete Rozelle, Major League Baseball, Johnny Unitas, Maryland Stadium Authority
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Charles Busnuk, grants writer
Charles "Chuck" Busnuk, a retired Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene grants writer, died of cancer Aug. 31 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 64 and lived in Canton.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown, he was a 1966...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Morgan State University, Mount Royal, Towson
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Philip Glass' 'Overture for 2012' to get dual premiere
The most famous piece of music about a conflict in 1812 has nothing to do with what is dubbed the second war of American independence. That won't stop Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture," with its famous bells and cannons, from being part of the "Star-Spangled...
Tags: Toronto (Canada), Music, Music Industry, Canada, Marin Alsop
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Hot sounds for the cool months ahead
Musicians have been tuning up and are ready to perform for you during a classical music season that heats up as the weather cools down. There's a lot going on, so you may want to make some musical notations of your own as you plan your cultural calendar....
Tags: Howard Community College, Music, War of 1812, Classical Music (genre), Colleges and Universities
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Phyllis Teather-Burke, educator
Phyllis Teather-Burke, a longtime Baltimore County public school educator whose specialty was early-childhood education, died Wednesday of cancer at her Glen Arm home. She was 77. "She was an outstanding educator who had a deep commitment to children,"...
Tags: Public Schools, Elkton, Teaching and Learning, Melbourne, Pikesville
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BSO's 'Overture for 2012' draws rousing response
With a giant flag of 15 stars and stripes as a backdrop inside Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, a celebratory concert Sunday night drew a packed house to cap the weekend's commemoration of the War of 1812 bicentennial. As if to underline that there are no hard...
Tags: Toronto (Canada), Music, War of 1812, Music Industry, Canada
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Mary D. Tilghman, Wye House owner
Mary D. Tilghman, who spent the past two decades preserving Talbot County's historic Wye House plantation, which has been occupied by her family since 1659, died there Friday of heart failure.
She was 93.
"She was quite a lady and the great steward of...Tags: Preservation Maryland, Architecture, Easton (Talbot, Maryland), Colleges and Universities, Internists
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Dr. Carlton Lasley Sexton
Dr. Carlton Lasley Sexton, a retired Baltimore internist who was also a member of the clinical faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, died July 20 of pneumonia at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson.
The former longtime Stevenson...Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Photography and Video, Pneumonia, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Colleges and Universities
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Dorothy Powell Ridgely Thomas, Hampton site volunteer
Dorothy Powell Ridgely Thomas, a former teacher of disabled students who was active at the Hampton National Historic Site, died of complications from Parkinson's disease Aug. 4 at her Lutherville home. She was 82.
Born Dorothy Powell Ridgely in...Tags: Baltimore County, Parkinson's Disease
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Marvin Hamlisch: Composer, conductor, Yankees fan?
For many years my wife Fran and I were subscribers to the Baltimore Pops series at the Meyerhoff. We especially enjoyed the years during Marvin Hamlisch's tenure as principal pops conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Little did we know that he...Tags: Marvin Hamlisch, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Mike Mussina, Baltimore Orioles, Boynton Beach
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Stanley I. Panitz, real estate developer
Stanley I. Panitz, a former real estate developer whose Bolton Square town house community earned him national recognition, died Monday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Springwell Senior Living in Mount Washington.
The Roland Park resident...Tags: New York City, Roland Park, Housing and Urban Planning, Real Estate Sellers, Awards and Prizes
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