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The Met Packs Up Its Notorious Ring Machine
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Music Review Talea Ensemble and Ekmeles at the Czech Center
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Music Review Young Concert Artists Gala at Alice Tully Hall
Young Concert Artists, which for 52 years has built a solid record of fostering the careers of gifted instrumentalists, vocalists and, since 1994, composers, presents a popular series of recitals in New York. But the organization typically ends the season with a gala benefit concert in which, after some celebratory speeches onstage, three recent winners of its international auditions play ...
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Michigan LGBT Youth Center Does Outreach With A Dance Hook
The Ruth Ellis Center helps about 5,000 young people each year. If you're a homeless young adult, chances are good that you're gay, bisexual or transgender. And if you live in the Detroit area, ...
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Outgoing Acting IRS Director Grilled By House Lawmakers
The House Ways and Means Committee became the first oversight panel in Congress to weigh in on the IRS tax-exempt group controversy on Friday ...
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Media Decoder Green and Aguilera to Return to The Voice
NBC will bring back its original coach lineup for the fall edition of its biggest hit, ...
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The Trocks They could’ve danced all night | Dance review
A review of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the touring comic ballet troupe affectionately known as "The Trocks." It entertains audiences at Meany Theater through Saturday, May ...
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Rhapsodys Move to Liner Notes for Digital Tunes May Set Trend
For old-timers who still go to record stores, flip through bins, buy albums and dig into the liner notes, the experience of streaming songs on a service like Spotify or Rhapsody can be dismaying. Listen, say, to Michael ...
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Music Review Julio Estrada at Miller Theater in ICE Composer Portraits
The woman onstage appears to be struggling. The sounds that are coming out of her are wordless, labored and worrying. A wheezing inhalation. A whispered ...
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Eurovision Song Contest celebrates pop excess
Techno beats, over-the-top stage antics and pop stars of the past return to the spotlight in Malmo, Sweden this weekend as the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest ramps up to its showy finale. The unabashed celebration of European pop music excess heads into its climax this weekend, with 20 countries joining the six automatic qualifiers: Britain, Italy, Spain, France, Germany and this year's host ...
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Shots fired at Cannes
A man has been arrested at the Cannes Film Festival in France after allegedly firing a gun and brandishing a fake grenade near a waterfront TV studio on Frida. The suspect's weapon was filled with blanks, but the incident was enough to cause a big scare on the Croisette seafront, where crowds had gathered to watch hosts from French channel Canal + present special festival coverage. No one ...
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Music Review Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short Tribute at Town Hall
For every musical genre there is usually an event that more people claim to have attended than could possibly have been there. In rock, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969 leads a long list of touchstones. Many would cite Benny ...
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Dance Review Katy Pyles Firebird a Ballez at Danspace Project
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Critics Notebook The Original Blue Collar Comedy Tour Stars
BEAUMONT, Tex. ...
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Music Review Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall
By the time the pianist Yuja Wang had played a fifth encore to cap her exhilarating concert on Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall, I confess that while perhaps 90 percent of my attention was on her precise yet exuberant playing, a crucial 10 was on her skintight flame-colored dress. It seems that a high-minded, conscientious music critic should pay Ms ...
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Dance Review City Ballets Program of Peter Martins and Robbins at Koch Theater
In 1988, when Peter Martins choreographed ...
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Steve Forbert On Mountain Stage
May 17, 2013 The singer-songwriter performs intense, poetic Americana songs with a rock-tinged twist. Hear five songs from Steve Forbert, recorded live on the campus of West Virginia University in ...
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US arts academy honors Bob Dylan
NEW YORK -- Singer Bob Dylan was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, joining the ranks of leading writers, composers and artists in the prestigious 115-year-old group. Henry Cobb, the president of the academy, said honorary members are people of great distinction in the creative arts. "For more than 50 years, defying categorization in a culture beguiled by ...
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Acting IRS head blames foolish mistakes apologizes
IRS scandal takes center stage on Capitol Hill. What new comes out? … The White House is in damage-control mode – how they’re managing the three controversies … GOP tries to tie IRS to health care … Obama needs to fix IRS because credibility of government and his second-term agenda is at stake … From New York to L.A., two mayor’s races will be a ...
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Obama names acting IRS chief denies knowledge of IRS report
President Barack Obama will appoint a White House budget officer to the be the new acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner, an announcement made following a fresh declaration from the president that he knew nothing about the inspector general’s report detailing improper IRS actions until it was leaked.After announcing the resignation of acting IRS Director Steven Miller on Wednesday ...
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Luhrmann turned down Potter
Moviemaker Baz Luhrmann has branded himself an "idiot" for turning down the chance to direct the Harry Potter films in favour of shooting movie musical Moulin Rouge! The Australian director was contacted by producers of the wizarding franchise while they were planning the first big screen installment, 2001's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. He turned down the ...
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Record low Idol audience
LOS ANGELES - The number of Americans who watched vocal powerhouse Candice Glover win the American Idol title sank to 14.2 million, a decline of 31% from last year’s record low, according to ratings data on Friday. The singing competition, now in Season 12, was once a TV industry juggernaut for Fox that brought in more than 30 million viewers for its finale in the peak years of 2006 and ...
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ODBs widow files suit to stop hologram
Ol' Dirty Bastard's widow has filed a motion to prevent organizers of the upcoming Rock the Bells Festival from bringing the late rapper back to life in the form of a hologram. Promoters are planning to raise the tragic Wu-Tang Clan member from the grave to 'perform' at the 2013 touring hip-hop festival, which kicks off in the U.S. in September (13), but now his wife Icelene ...
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Mad Men star Vincent Kartheiser heading to Minn. stage
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 20: Actor Vincent Kartheiser arrives at the Premiere of AMC's 'Mad Men' Season 6 at DGA Theater on March 20, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty ...
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Defensive forwards center stage in NHL playoffs
Patrice Bergeron , it helps to have a Pavel Datsyuk, Jonathan Toews or Patrice Bergeron.The three finalists for the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the NHL's best defensive forward are all in the playoffs, and it's no coincidence. The league's top teams count on their forwards to also pressure the opponent's top scorers, not only for defensive purposes but to create chances on the ...
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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