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    Mar 22, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  1. Keswick using music to treat dementia, Alzheimer's

    Linda Kellar seemed too young for dementia, the slow-forming disease that erodes the memories of people usually much older than the then-54-year-old housewife.
    Linda Kellar seemed too young for dementia, the slow-forming disease that erodes the memories of people usually much older than the then-54-year-old housewife. But in 2009 that's what doctors found to be the cause of Kellar's severe agitation, memory...

    Tags: Music, Diseases and Illnesses, Anxiety, Autism, Alzheimer's Disease

    2. Jan 11, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. Toby's singers, dancers warm up to 'Hot Nostalgia II'

    Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia often delivers the unexpected — even in a show called "Hot Nostalgia II," billed as "an original musical review."
    Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia often delivers the unexpected — even in a show called "Hot Nostalgia II," billed as "an original musical review." It's all that and more, featuring a kaleidoscope of musical moments from the 1920s through the...

    Tags: The Beach Boys, Irving Berlin, Music Theater, Frank Sinatra, Andrews Sisters (music group)

    3. Oct 18, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Shirley Reingold, manager of vocal group The Orioles

    Shirley Reingold, who managed the early R&B vocal group The Orioles and wrote their 1948 hit song "It's Too Soon to Know," died of heart disease Oct. 10 at Aventura Hospital in Aventura, Fla. The native Baltimorean was 89.
    Shirley Reingold, who managed the early R&B vocal group The Orioles and wrote their 1948 hit song "It's Too Soon to Know," died of heart disease Oct. 10 at Aventura Hospital in Aventura, Fla. The native Baltimorean was 89. She was known professionally as...

    Tags: Arthur Godfrey, Music Industry, Carnegie Hall, Manhattan (New York City), Mount Royal

    4. Jul 22, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Artscape: Why so little jazz?

    The choice of Brian McKnight for headliner at Artscape is not the only poor decision made by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts ("X-rated songs by Artscape headliner stir controversy," July 19). They also nearly eliminated jazz from the...

    Tags: Brian McKnight, Charles Street, Music, Music Industry, Chick Webb

    5. Jul 30, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Students honor 100-year-old teacher

    It isn't unusual for students to remember the impact a teacher had on them<b> </b>well into adulthood, but on Saturday, many students of former Baltimore music teacher Lucille Marcus Brooks had an unusual opportunity to tell her &#8212; more than a half-century after they sat in her classroom.
    It isn't unusual for students to remember the impact a teacher had on them well into adulthood, but on Saturday, many students of former Baltimore music teacher Lucille Marcus Brooks had an unusual opportunity to tell her — more than a half-...

    Tags: Baltimore County, Music Industry, High Schools, Colleges and Universities, Frederick Douglass

    6. May 10, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. Squarely on the front porch

    Seven decades later, retired Baltimore Circuit Judge Thomas Ward still remembers the details of his <em>Baltimore Sun</em> paper route, calling the Windsor Hills terrain "horrible."
    Seven decades later, retired Baltimore Circuit Judge Thomas Ward still remembers the details of his Baltimore Sun paper route, calling the Windsor Hills terrain "horrible." For $2.40 a week, 4 a.m. to 6:30 a.m., Monday through Saturday, he walked. His...

    Tags: Justice System, Charleston, Discovery Communications, Inc., Scott Watkins, Memorial Stadium

    7. May 14, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  7. American Masters does Carson to biographical perfection - except for that masculinity thing

    From Norman Rockwell and Leonard Bernstein to Baltimore's Cab Calloway, no one does biography like "American Masters" on PBS.
    The Baltimore Sun
    From Norman Rockwell and Leonard Bernstein to Baltimore's Cab Calloway, no one does biography like "American Masters" on PBS. I've been reviewing these superb productions for all of the 26 seasons that "American Masters" has been on the air, and have...

    Tags: Norman Rockwell, Dick Cavett, David Letterman, Concerts, Ed McMahon

    8. Mar 8, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Tapping into Maryland's rich dance history

    Who knew that Baltimore had such happy feet?
    Who knew that Baltimore had such happy feet? Three icons of tap dance who were famous nationwide — known colloquially as Baby Laurence, Buster Brown and Hawk — were born in Charm City and first perfected the "shim sham" and "cramp roll" and...

    Tags: Concerts, Frederick Douglass, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Count Basie

    9. Feb 24, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. PBS treats Baltimore's Cab Calloway as an American Master

    It's not often in judging the biography of a great artist that you can just pick up the phone and call one of the people who knew him best &mdash; and remains a principal keeper of the historical flame.
    It's not often in judging the biography of a great artist that you can just pick up the phone and call one of the people who knew him best — and remains a principal keeper of the historical flame. But that is exactly the case with Cab Calloway, the...

    Tags: Music Theater, Music Industry, Dan Aykroyd, Frederick Douglass, Classical Music (genre)

    10. Feb 21, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. A sense of history

    "History is the greatest narrative," the Rev. Heber Brown III told more than 20 people in the pews Feb. 17 at Pleasant Hope Baptist Church.
    "History is the greatest narrative," the Rev. Heber Brown III told more than 20 people in the pews Feb. 17 at Pleasant Hope Baptist Church. The church held a Black History Month event that was billed as "a celebration of north Baltimore's black history,"...

    Tags: Belvedere Square, African-American History Month, Baltimore County, Black History

    11. Sep 21, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. Like/dislike: Nona Narcisse

    By day she is Lily Hindrew, but by night she is burlesque seductress Nona Narcisse. The 26-year-old from Santa Fe, N.M., is one of the producers of Slow Burn Burlesque, a professional dance and variety show based in New Orleans. Once a fashion student, Hindrew now makes most of her own smoldering costumes and helps create the props and sets for Slow Burn. Next month you can see her as the featured model at one of Dr. Sketchy's live drawing sessions, or catch her performing with Gilded Lily Burlesque at the <a href="http://findlocal.baltimoresun.com/remington/bars-and-clubs/bars-clubs/the-ottobar-baltimore-club">Ottobar</a>. Here she give us the scoop on some of life's necessities: pizza, friends and lots and lots of sequins.
    By day she is Lily Hindrew, but by night she is burlesque seductress Nona Narcisse. The 26-year-old from Santa Fe, N.M., is one of the producers of Slow Burn Burlesque, a professional dance and variety show based in New Orleans. Once a fashion student,...

    Tags: Apple iPod, Al Pacino, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra

    12. Nov 21, 2011 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  12. Perry Hall musician keeps Zim Zemarel's Big Band sound alive

    It takes a Big Band sound to battle the disco, punk, thrash rock, heavy metal and country-pop now dominating national soundtracks.
    It takes a Big Band sound to battle the disco, punk, thrash rock, heavy metal and country-pop now dominating national soundtracks. But that's exactly what the Zim Zemarel Band has done in the greater Baltimore area for the better part of 50 years. And...

    Tags: Tommy Dorsey, Television, Jack Jones, Music Theater, Barry Levinson

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