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Dance Review City Ballets Serenade and Red Angels at Koch Theater
To see New York City Ballet perform ...
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Music Review Handels Rodrigo at Gershwin Hotel
Until recently, a hotel lobby would have seemed an outlandish place to present an opera. But opera on unusual stages has become an agreeably prominent trend, with recent productions offered at quirky spaces, like a nightclub on the Lower East Side. Operamission, a company founded in 2009 by the pianist, harpsichordist and conductor Jennifer Peterson, saw potential in the lobby of the ...
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Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei’s New Musical Protest
We’re looking for the name of a famous Chinese landmark. It’s the big sports stadium in Beijing. The huge 80,000 seat venue is really an entertainment center. It has hosted winter carnivals with tons of imported snow, outdoor operas including a performance of Turandot, and international soccer matches. But it’s most famous as the main venue for the 2008 Summer Olympics in ...
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82 Years of the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara
and the name has been embedded in the history of Santa Barbara. Michael Redmon, Director of Research at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, provides a look ...
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Music Review Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Plays Mozart at Alice Tully
Despite what prime-time television has conditioned us to expect, not every season-ending program has to conclude with oversize special effects and unanticipated twists. When the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center completed its season on Tuesday evening at Alice Tully Hall, it did so with what amounted to a warm collective hug, in the form of ...
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Wednesday on the NewsHour The Houston Grand Opera Sings to a New Audience
Houston Grand Opera . But there's nothing typical about "Cruzar la Cara de la Luna," or "To Cross the Face of the Moon." Written in 2010 and billed as the first mariachi opera, "Cruzar la Cara de la Luna" tells the story of three generations of a Mexican family in the United States. It's also just part of a grand mission by the Houston Grand Opera to ...
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Music Match If You Like Steve Martin and Edie Brickell Try Their Music as a Duet
Each week, Val Haller, a music-obsessed baby boomer and the founder of the Web site Valslist.com, matches tracks from her generation to those of her 20-something ...
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Canadas Ryan Gosling misses his Cannes film premiere – which got booed
Only God Forgives: Ryan Gosling plays Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld who sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death. ...
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Billy Crystal Returns to TV in FX Pilot
The FX network announced on Wednesday that it was bringing the comedy star Billy Crystal back to television in a pilot for a new situation ...
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Jim Hensons puppets donated to NY museum
New York's Museum of the Moving Image saw its attendance spike when it hosted the travelling exhibit Jim Henson's Fantastic World. The Henson family is now donating nearly 400 items from the puppeteer's collection to the Queens, N.Y., museum. (Richard Drew/Associated ...
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Kim Ks crazy baby shower invite
baby shower invitations are music boxes? TMZ has now obtained a photo of one, which is indeed a music box featuring a raven-haired ballerina that twirls around, as a lullabye version of Kanye West's "Hey Mama" plays. Cute? Or over the top? The invite itself says the party is "given with love" by Kim's mom Kris Jenner, sisters Kourtney and Khloe, and Shelli Azoff, ...
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Rookie Blue writing never dull
Rookie Blue never has been Rookie Blase, and Priscilla Faia is the latest beneficiary. "It makes it exciting, they're always trying to spice it up," Faia says. "This time you have two new regular characters who are going to be there for the season." As you can guess, Faia plays one of those new characters, with Rookie Blue returning for its fourth season, Thursday on ...
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Steinberg puts road days behind him
With a friendly smile and countless stories, David Steinberg seems like an unlikely candidate to hold the record for most hate mail in the history of TV. But such was the case in 1969 when the Winnipeg native effectively put a bullet in the head of the embattled Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour by doing his sermon on Moses and the Burning Bush in defiance of CBS Standards & Practices. It had ...
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Salvaged saints Michael Landys martyrs invade the National Gallery
The Christian saints had a hard time of it, but they were pretty stoical about their grisly martyrdoms. Saint Peter, the 13th-century friar from Verona, was done to death on the road, stabbed after having his head cleaved open with an axe. Not that Peter seemed to notice, or even care about, his bloody death: numerous paintings depict him chatting and hanging about, oblivious to the chopper ...
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Michael Landy unleashes holy terror on the National Gallery – in pictures
Whether it's St Lucy's eyes resting on a platter or Doubting Thomas poking dents in the body of Christ, Michael Landy's congregation of mechanical martyrs - the culmination of his two-year residency at the National Gallery - is a brilliant black mass of the ...
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Video A musical welcome for Harper in Peru
The prime minister was welcomed to Lima, Peru Wednesday by an honour guard playing "O Canada." Stephen Harper is on a four-day trade mission in South ...
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Aretha Franklin cancels Canadian shows
Aretha Franklin is extending her current break and has cancelled performances for the month of June. Spokesperson David Brokaw says the iconic singer will reschedule two shows and resume her touring schedule in July. No other details were provided. The June dates included headlining concerts at the Ottawa and Montreal jazz festivals as well as an appearance in Clarkston, Mich. The Queen of ...
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Ang Lee drops out of TV cable debut
After four years of working on and promoting Life of Pi, which earned Ang Lee his second directing Oscar, he says he needs some rest. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/Associated ...
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Michael Jacksons doctor had no background check AEG lawyer says
There were concerns about pop star Michael Jackson's health before the This is It concert series and his subsequent death, an AEG corporate attorney admitted. (Kevin Mazur/AEG/Getty ...
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Readers most hated buildings
invited readers to nominate architectural aberrations from around the country. Here's what they came up with - from a tower that looks like a bouncer to an arena that looks like an Opal ...
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Colour footage of London in the 1920s
London looks itself and other in this footage. For a 21st-century viewer it is like watching a science-fiction film in which almost everything is the same until you notice little differences that betray a completely alien quality. The past is another country, but ...
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Wings over America - in pictures
With a a newly remastered version of Wings Over America being released next week, we bring you this gallery of candid shots from Paul McCartney's jaunt round the United States in summer ...
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Analysis From opera to exercises U.S. and China deepen military ties
Musicians from the military bands of China's People's Liberation Army and the U.S. Army take photos during a rehearsal for their joint concert at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, in this October 29, 2012 file ...
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Visconti Takes Second Stage Win in Giro dItalia
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Los Angeles calls upon star French designers for Figaro opera
By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES | Wed May 22, 2013 1:01pm EDT LOS ANGELES May 22 (Reuters) - Count Almaviva, muscles bulging and resplendent in white, struts like a peacock across the stage belting his baritone at his countess, who sits in a flowing red gown against a sparse backdrop of sleek, modernist lines. It is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." But unlike ...
A Look at Copenhagen
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Copenhagen leading the eco-charge
Copenhagen has, for many decades, been an extremely influential city in world affairs, most notably in the realm of environmental management and conservation activities. It is in Copenhagen that world leaders meet to agree on eco-friendly policies at the famous Copenhagen Accord, and the city will host mayors from around the world at the Copenhagen Summit. So what is the extent of the city’s leadership on such issues?
Copenhagen has long been considered one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. In 1973 Denmark was the first country in the world to implement a national Environmental Law, and this paved the way for a strong combination of national and municipal legislation aimed at limiting the cities carbon footprint. Read more
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