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3 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Michelle Obama and her sweetheart

Wednesday night President Obama and the first lady hosted an event in the East Room of the White House celebrating classical music.

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Related Topix: Michelle Obama, Joshua Bell

8 hrs ago | Liverpool Daily Post

Liverpool News: REVIEW: Classical music star Andrea Bocelli at Liverpool arena

WHAT is it about the singing sons of farmers? Last month Wales' finest Bryn Terfel charmed a packed Philharmonic - including his retired sheep farmer dad - with a programme of sea songs, German lieder and twinkly-eyed banter.

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Related Topix: Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel, Europe, World News, United Kingdom

12 hrs ago | The Post Chronicle

Awash In Notes? Piano 'Drowns' In Andsnes Concert

It could be one of the most disturbing images in classical music since Charlotte Moorman played the cello in the nude and brought out the New York City vice squad.

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Related Topix: Leif Ove Andsnes, Arts, Opera, Mussorgsky, Entertainment

16 hrs ago | The Dallas Morning News

Classical music review: Von Trapp Children fill Fort Worth's Bass Hall with 'Sound of Music' and more

Murder at Fort Hood. Shootings in Orlando, Fla. Enough, enough. Can an orchestra concert ease the pain, distract us from tragedy? The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra certainly tried with its Pops concert Friday at Bass Hall, featuring the von Trapp Children, a quartet of youngsters who re-created the happy harmonies of the 1965 Rodgers and ...

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Related Topix: Fort Worth, TX, Fort Hood, TX, Symphony, Arts, Justin, TX

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Haaretz

Wagner descendant slams 'anti-semitic' music at Berlin Wall event

Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes a composition by his "anti-semitic" great-grandfather. Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim is leading Monday's performance at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, which is to include A ...

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Related Topix: Opera, Wagner, Richard Wagner, Schoenberg, Europe, World News, Germany, Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy

Examiner.com

Sing-Along Messiah great family classical music experience

Let's face it: in the day and age of iPods and endless radio station options, it's a challenge to get children to listen to or appreciate classical music.

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Related Topix: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Boxer Nikolai Valuev is a classical music heavyweight | Tom Service

The Russian man-mountain is boxing's only known classical fan. Which piece should he choose to accompany his entrance to the ring? Beast from the east ... and fan of Chopin: Nikolai Valuev.

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Related Topix: Chopin

Scotsman.com Living

Classical music: The Max factor FOR the past week, various ensembles...

FOR the past week, various ensembles in Glasgow have been celebrating the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, a man once labelled the enfant terrible of contemporary music, but now, at the ripe old age of 75, a British institution and Master of the Queen's Music to boot.

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Related Topix: Peter Maxwell Davies, Symphony, Arts, Opera

SFGate

this Weekend / Classical music

San Francisco Symphony: Semyon Bychkov conducts the orchestra in an all-Rachmaninoff program, including "The Bells," a choral work based on Poe's poem, and the Second Symphony.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Symphony, Symphony, Arts

Thu Nov 05, 2009

The Baltimore Sun

Classical music day at the White House

Classical music day at the White House Our presidents typically don't have a lot of interest in classical music.

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Related Topix: White House, TN, Family, Kids, Entertainment

Littlehampton Today

AUDIO: Tarring chorister Jacquelyne Hill singing Jerusalem

IT has been a whirlwind week for young chorister Jacquelyne Hill after her winning performance was aired on radio.

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Related Topix: Aled Jones

hosted The Washington Post | The Washington Post

Angela Lansbury set to receive Sondheim Award

Angela Lansbury, the legendary actress, will receive the first Stephen Sondheim Award from Signature Theatre, the company will announce Thursday.

The honor reunites two old friends, as well as artistic talents who are acknowledged innovators in their disciplines and have each forged careers that cover 50 years of theater and music history.

'Angela Lansbury's first appearance on the musical stage was in a show called 'Anyone Can Whistle,' for which I wrote the score. That appearance was a gift to the musical theater, although perhaps not such a gift to her, since the show only ran for nine performances,' Sondheim said in a statement, referring to his 1964 musical. 'I am thrilled that Signature Theatre is helping me make it up to her by giving her the first Stephen Sondheim Award.'

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Related Topix: Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, Theater, Arts, Musical Theater

KKTV

Focus Donates $115,266 To Maine Gay Marriage Fight

Conservative Christian group Focus on the Family donated just over $115,000 to the fight against gay marriage in Maine.

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Related Topix: Focus on the Family, Gay/Lesbian, Colorado Springs, CO, Colorado Springs Metro

The Star Online

Malaysia to sell its fine arts and culture to the world

HELSINKI: Malaysia will start to promote its diverse arts and culture as a niche tourism product for fine arts lovers beginning next year.

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Related Topix: Europe, Finland, World News, Symphony, Arts

Wed Nov 04, 2009

National Post

Gabriela Montero: Classical musicians can make noodles, too

Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero can't quite explain her improvisational talents, though she does offer this: "I hear a ' I dona TMt think," she says.

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Related Topix: Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Albeniz, Horowitz, Vladimir Horowitz

Telegraph.co.uk

Grizzly Bear and London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican review

Grizzly Bear and London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, review This year's indie darlings reach new heights with the LSO Rating: * * * * * Posterboys for a certain strain of ambitious, symphonic pop: Grizzly Bear 'Does this feel as fancy for you as it does for us?' asked bassist Chris Taylor as he looked out across the auditorium of the ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Symphony, The London Symphony Orchestra, Lso

Centre Daily Times

Classical music has its day at the White House

With two concerts and a series of workshops for young musicians, the White House put a big spotlight on classical music Wednesday and sent a strong message that it's not just for stuffed shirts.

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Related Topix: Michelle Obama, Manhattan School of Music

LivingstonDaily

John Schneider: Everything just a Google away

We all know about the power of the Internet to promote democracy, unite the world and maybe one day eliminate war, world hunger and the need for singles bars.

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Related Topix: Luciano Pavarotti, Opinion

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Kevin Volans Day | Classical music review

Slowly but surely, contemporary music is infiltrating the Wigmore Hall programmes.

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Scoop

Arts Festival offers 930 artists from 30 countries

New Zealand International Arts Festival The New Zealand International Arts Festival has launched its programme for 2010.

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Related Topix: Oceania, New Zealand, World News, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Shankar, Jazz, Symphony, Arts, Opera

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