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Review: Long Beach Opera charts 'The Fall of the House of Usher'
Philip Glass is prolific beyond all understanding – and he keeps cranking out pieces at a clip that even his own record label, Orange Mountain Music, can’t keep up with. What that means is that there are lots of opportunities for...
Tags: Apple iPad, Benjamin Millepied, Edgar Allan Poe
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Review: Walt Disney in fantasyland
MADRID — Walt Disney was hardly a perfect American. He may have been the most famous and beloved American during his lifetime. But his private magic kingdom was not always the happiest place on Earth. Disney had his own private torments and is...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Mark Swed
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Bang on a Can All-Stars Perform at The Quick Center in Fairfield on Jan. 26
Since 1992, the Bang on a Can All-Stars have worked with avant-garde musicians like Steve Reich, Ornette Coleman, Burmese circle drum master Kyaw Kyaw Naing and DJ Spooky. They recorded Brian Eno's ambient Music for Airports, and they've performed with...
Tags: Fairfield University, Ornette Coleman, Brian Eno, Music
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Exciting lineup of shows coming in the early months of 2013
The holidays are behind us, and it's time to turn our attention to what's shaping up as an exciting first quarter in the Hampton Roads arts arena. Several premieres are coming our way, and some major talent is dropping by. Here's a look at some upcoming...
Tags: Virginia Arts Festival, Zac Efron, Howard Ashman, Music Industry, Alan Menken
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Ravi Shankar dies at 92; sitar master
Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected pop-culture cachet. Suddenly the classically trained Shankar...
Tags: Popular Music (genre), Ravi Shankar, John Coltrane, Concerts, Norah Jones
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Ravi Shankar's impact went beyond the Beatles
The Fox News Web headline Wednesday morning captured something in the air despite its utter wrongness: "Beatles' sitar player Ravi Shankar dies at 92." Well, first, the Beatles' sitar player was George Harrison. Shankar, who died Tuesday in his...
Tags: Ravi Shankar, Monaco, Concerts, Norah Jones, India
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From the archives: Ravi Shankar a commanding presence
On Sept. 28, 2011, Ravi Shankar was 91 and frail when he took the stage for an unforgettable night in Los Angeles. With Shankar's death at 92 on Tuesday, we share the review of that performance from Times music critic Mark Swed. I come to praise a...
Tags: Ravi Shankar, Martin Scorsese, Entertainment Events, Al Pacino, Music Industry
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Best 2012 performances: Hampton Roads had several high points
The performing arts scene looked a bit like a Busch Gardens theme ride in 2012, with lots of high points and a couple of strange twists and turns. Overall, the quality of presentations was first-rate with several regional or world premieres and knockout...
Tags: Ferguson Center for the Arts, Popular Music (genre), Harold Lloyd, Opera (genre), Entertainment Events
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The 2012 Oxford American Music Issue: Stocking Stuffer for Music Geeks
Every year when the venerable Oxford American releases its annual music issue -- and its accompanying CD -- I’m blown away by the scope of the project, the deep research, the top-notch writing, the curatorial genius, the style and sense of the...
Tags: Lucinda Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Stevie Wonder, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times
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Hubbard Street ballet inspired by Chagall's windows
How do you turn 35 gracefully? How about going somewhere you've never gone before? Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, born in the heyday of short repertory works, celebrates its 35th anniversary this week by premiering its first full-length endeavor, "A...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Joffrey Ballet, Dance, Music
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Where to watch 9/11 anniversary programming
Channel Guide MagazineAs we come upon the 11th commemoration of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, there are several notable new and returning documentaries, specials and movies on television recalling the events and their impact on our nation from various perspectives... -
Philip Glass, Cai Guo-Qiang named Praemium Imperiale laureates
Composer Philip Glass and artist Cai Guo-Qiang are among the recently announced laureates of the 2012 Praemium Imperiale awards, organized by the Japan Art Assn. The annual awards are considered one of the most prestigious cultural honors in the world....
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