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- Hundreds of people who came to watch their loved ones graduate from Coppin State University were turned away Saturday after the venue filled to capacity and the staff suspected counterfeit tickets were to blame.
- Authors tell stories of reading to an empty room, sick kids and sleeping in their truck while on tour
- The 2014-15 Baltimore Speakers Series will include appearances by Alan Alda, Dan Rather, David McCullough, David Gergen, Ken Burns, Julia Gillard and Olympia Snowe.
- Sundays at Three chamber music series will feature five Baltimore Symphony Orchestra woodwind and string section leaders performing on Sunday, April 6, at 3 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia.
- Social-media star and 'Star Trek' alum George Takei will bring some sci-fi to BSO.
- Spacey told David Letterman last week that he was following the former president's motorcade when Clinton got a hankering for a coffee.
- Spacey told David Letterman last night that he was following the former president's motorcade when Clinton got a hankering for a coffee.
- Guest conductor leads BSO in powerful account of Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique'; concertmaster Jonathan Carney sails through Saint-Saens concerto.
- Friends and family remembered philanthropist and Whiting-Turner Co. CEO Willard Hackerman on Tuesday as a loyal and smart businessman who was generous with his time and money.
- Willard Hackerman, the longtime president and CEO of the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company and a prominent philanthropist, has died. He was 95.
- Both as a developer and philanthropist, the late Willard Hackerman had a profound impact on his beloved Baltimore
- Located across from the Meyerhoff, the restaurant closed after three years of operation
- The title given to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's SuperPops offering this weekend strikes just the right note — "Marvin Hamlisch: One Singular Sensation."
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra commissioned concerto by Towson University faculty member Jonathan Leshnoff, who dedicated it to classical guitarist and Peabody faculty member Manuel Barrueco.
- The sound of 150 children playing instruments — the violin, the trumpet, the oboe, the harp — spills out of every classroom, filling the air and remarkably transforming this elementary school in a raggedy neighborhood of West Baltimore into a music conservatory.
- In addition to the usual flurry of such perennial favorites as Handel's "Messiah" and Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," this year's lineup gains fresh spice from several new-to-Baltimore shows, including a play about the last Christmas of the Civil War and stage adaptations of popular holiday movies.
- World War I echoes in score combining lieutenant's poetry, Latin Mass for the Dead
- Interest in local beer is at an all-time high, with restaurants and bars seeking to entice customers with a frequently rotating selection of unique and seasonal brews, according to industry leaders.
- Blind Japanese pianist, gold medalist at 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, offers warm tone, sensitive phrasing in Tchaikovsky concerto with BSO, conducted by Arild Remmereit.
- R&B singer Charlie Wilson discusses working on 'Yeezus' with Kanye West, his 2013 solo album 'Love, Charlie' and more before his Baltimore tour date.
- The Baltimore Symphony's season kicked into high gear as Marin Alsop led a gripping account of Bernstein's 'Age of Anxiety' with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, followed by some splendid Ravel.
- Eileen Abato, a retired department store fashion director who became an advocate for AIDS awareness, died of leukemia Thursday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Towson resident was 69.
- Abraham "Al" Ackerman, who rose from a door-to-door egg salesman to own and operate a wholesale egg company, died Sept. 6 from complications of bladder cancer at his Pikesville home. He was 89.
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to host stylish arrangers of vintage songs
- Though budget troubles and contract negotiations loom, Marin Alsop has been a definite plus
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop, who started her tenure in 2007, has signed a new contract that will take her through 2021.
- Artscape festival-goers pitch in to paint murals in community art project called "10,000 brushes," creating 10 mini-murals that will be displayed around Baltimore.
- Frank R. Palmer III, who rose from a plasterer to head John H. Hampshire Inc., a Remington plastering and drywall firm, died June 18 from complications of lymphoma at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 90.
- A new report recommends significant changes at Coppin State University, the latest in a string of transformation efforts
- Natalie Woods' singing was replaced by soprano who also filled in for Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr
- Famed film composer John Williams, who donated his services for a concert to benefit Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians' pension fund, had the sell-out crowd roaring its affection.