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10 min ago | Malaysian National News Agency

Hitting The Right Notes With Classical Music

By Ummi Nadiah Rosli KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 -- The opening notes of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in d minor", can easily be misconstrued as the background music associated with scary movies.

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Related Topix: World News, Malaysia, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Ashkenazy

4 hrs ago | Ledger Dispatch

Classical Music: S.F. Symphony and Chorus herald the season with Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio"

ONE OF THE MOST pleasing sounds to the human ear is probably the human voice raised in song.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Life, Holidays, Christmas, Chorus, San Francisco, CA, J.S. Bach, Music, Entertainment

8 hrs ago | BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

Jonathan Ansell To Make Musical Theatre Debut In Whistle Down the Wind

Jonathan Ansell, who won the heart of the nation as lead vocalist in X-Factor runners-up G4, has been cast in his musical debut, starring in Bill Kenwright 's production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Whistle Down The Wind.

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Related Topix: Lloyd Webber, Andrew Lloyd Webber

13 hrs ago | The Cincinnati Enquirer

TV Best Bets

Music special, 9-11 p.m., ABC. ABC offers two concerts filmed this summer. First is Beyonce, in Las Vegas.

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Related Topix: Short, Music!, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Children TV, Animated TV, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Life, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Andrea Bocelli

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Tulare Advance-Register

Trans-Siberian Orchestra uncaps non-holiday cheer with 'Castle'

Trans-Siberian Orchestra will perform on Wednesday at the Save Mart Center. Paul O'Neill feels a little like Santa this year, finally delivering the gift Trans-Siberian Orchestra fans have so patiently waited years to get their hands on.

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Related Topix: Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Omaha, NE Metro, Entertainment

WCTV Tallahassee

Today in History - Nov. 23

Today is Monday, Nov. 23, the 327th day of 2009. There are 38 days left in the year.

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Related Topix: Enrico Caruso, World News, China, Asia, Albany, NY

NPR

Cadenzas: Ladling The Gravy On Classical Music

Commentator Miles Hoffman is back, making his traditional Morning Edition visit to talk turkey about classical music on Thanksgiving day.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera

Shoreham Today

REVIEW: BPO's taste of Christmas

CHRISTMAS came early to the Brighton Dome on Sunday when the Brighton Philharmonic season again broke new ground with a concert aimed at children of all ages, including Howard Blake's The Snowman.

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Related Topix: Howard Blake, Michael Fenton Stevens

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Laurie Berkner Band to offer Pajama Party concert

We are the dinosaurs, marching, marching, We are the dinosaurs, whaddaya think of that? We are the dinosaurs, marching, marching, We are the dinosaurs, we make the Earth flat.

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Related Topix: Beethoven, Symphony, Arts, Los Angeles Metro, Long Beach, CA

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

For tenor from Malta, a star-making role?

For Joseph Calleja, tenor from Malta with voice `like sunshine,' a star-making role at Met? NEW YORK - There's something about the honeyed sweetness of Joseph Calleja's voice that seems to evoke memories of a golden age, as if this young tenor carried within his vocal cords a secret passed down from bygone generations.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Luciano Pavarotti, Jacques Offenbach

The Chronicle-Journal

Short list announced for Canadaa s richest non-fiction literary prize

A father's struggle to come to terms with his son's disability and a biography of media baron William Randolph Hearst are among the nominees for Canada's richest non-fiction literary prize.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, J.S. Bach

Newkerala.com

John Mayer Goes To Battle And Wins The Album Chart War

The singer/songwriter has claimed his second number one on the Billboard 200 chart with 286,000 opening-week sales.

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Related Topix: Andrea Bocelli

The TV Guy

TrackBack

Thanksgiving: parade on CBS, NBC; Beyonce, Paul McCartney on ABC; 'People of the Year' on NBC -- and priceless 'Cranford' Television offers treats from morning to night on Thanksgiving.

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Related Topix: Life, Thanksgiving, Holidays, Today, Entertainment, Television, Matt Lauer, Al Roker, Andrea Bocelli, The Early Show

Detroit Free Press

Healing, DSO's Slatkin to miss 3 more weeks

Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Leonard Slatkin won't be back on the podium at Orchestra Hall until next year.

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Related Topix: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Symphony, Arts, Leonard Slatkin

The Standard-Times

H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn expert

H.C. Robbins Landon, a musicologist noted for his pioneering research on Franz Joseph Haydn and for writing popular works on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, has died at age 83.

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Related Topix: Franz Joseph Haydn, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Boston University

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Newkerala.com

Oprah Winfrey Calls On Famous Friends For Heroes Concert

Winfrey saluted hero pilot Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger III and the first responders who saved the lives of passengers after the flight was forced to crash land in the Hudson River, offshore from Manhattan in New York City in January .

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Related Topix: Andrea Bocelli

NEWS.com.au

Delta to sing with Andrea Bocelli

DELTA Goodrem's impromptu performance at the private birthday party of an international hitmaker has finally won her the big break she needs to put her career on the map in the US.

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Related Topix: Andrea Bocelli

CANOE

Teen star Bieber debuts at No. 1

Artist: Bieber, Justin Justin Bieber It seems Bieber fever has swept through Canada.

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Related Topix: Canada, Andrea Bocelli

Bournemouth Echo

Cows yield more milk if they listen to Jedward

MOOOVE over Beethov-en - " cows at a dairy farm prefer the songs of X Factor stars John and Edward to the classics.

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Related Topix: Drink, Milk

WIS-TV Columbia

Winners announced in Trans-Siberian Orchestra ticket giveaway

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is coming to the Colonial Life Arena on November 29th and WIS has announced the winners of our ticket giveaway! With the long awaited new album "Night Castle" on the verge of being released, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, one of rock music's biggest arena attractions, is on another monumental North American tour, playing more ...

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