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Jazz resolutions for a New Year
A new year brings new hopes for music in Chicago. Here are key resolutions for 2013: Create a concise Cultural Plan. After months of town hall meetings, the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events last fall came up with a 48-page wish...
Tags: Millennium Park, Fred Anderson, John Travolta, Music Theater, Dave Brubeck
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The best jazz concerts of 2012
2012 was a characteristically plentiful year in jazz performance, Chicagoans hearing a tremendous range of music. The best concerts, in chronological order: March 1: Tammy McCann at the Jazz Showcase. The majestic Chicago singer designed her four-...
Tags: Vocal Music (genre), Wynton Marsalis, United Center, Concerts, Spider (music group)
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Best jazz concerts of 2012
2012 was a characteristically plentiful year in jazz performance, Chicagoans hearing a tremendous range of music. The best concerts, in chronological order: March 1: Tammy McCann at the Jazz Showcase. The majestic Chicago singer designed her four-...Tags: Vocal Music (genre), Wynton Marsalis, United Center, Concerts, Howard Reich
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Kennedy Center Honors Letterman, Led Zeppelin
CNNWASHINGTON -- An array of talents was on display Sunday at the Kennedy Center Honors gala where President Barack Obama toasted the lifetime achievements of an iconic ballerina, a famed comedian, a timeless actor and two chart-topping musical acts. In the...Tags: Jiffy Lube International, Inc., White House, David Letterman, Politics, Barack Obama
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Barbara Cook is still glowing at 85
Barbara Cook approaches a song from the inside out, judging the weight of each measure, the point behind each word in a lyric. So when she sings, she starts from a place where there's nothing but truth. No artifice, no exaggeration, no self-aggrandizing...
Tags: Arts, Music Theater, Arthritis, Entertainment, Culture
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Barbra Streisand, Barbara Cook -- ageless voices that still thrill
Liz Smith"THE BEST pop singers never seem to age." So wrote music critic Anthony Tommasini, musing in a positive fashion over the recent concerts of Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall and Barbra Streisand at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn. Obviously, audiences and...Tags: The Family That Preys (movie), Matthew Fox, Newspapers, Apple iPhone, Morgan Freeman
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Check It Out: Lies on the bookshelf
Numerous novels and nonfiction books depict aspects of deception, trickery and illusion. Here are a few samples of books that debunk the idea that "what you see is what you get." "Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil" by Tom...Tags: Libraries, Lucille Ball, Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand, Online Media Industry
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Highlights from variety special nominees: Road to the Emmys 2012: Variey, Music or Comedy
Variety"Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl"NBCHighlights: ** President Obama's lame but topical birth certificate joke shows. White is beloved enough to get a White House cameo -- and that she's got a sharper wit and better timing at...Tags: White House, Carol Burnett, Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher, Meryl Streep
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Barbara Cook, 72
Barbara Cook, 72, of Charlevoix, died Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, at Grandvue Medical Care Facility in East Jordan. Arrangements are pending at Winchester Funeral Home in Charlevoix. -
One singular sensation
Cal ThomasMarvin Hamlisch, 68, the composer-conductor who died Monday in Los Angeles after a brief illness was a certified genius. From the age of seven, when he became the youngest student ever admitted to New York's Juilliard School of Music, Marvin grew up to...Tags: Marilyn Bergman, A Chorus Line (musical), Music Theater, Marvin Hamlisch, Barbra Streisand
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Barbara Cook postpones concert at Valley Performing Arts Center
Fans of Barbara Cook who were expecting to catch the Broadway legend Saturday at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge will have to wait a little longer. Cook, 84, has postponed the concert after experiencing "an unexpected reaction to...
Tags: Arts, Yo-Yo Ma, Mark Morris, Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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Carmel's Center announces 2012-2013 season
The Center for the Performing ArtsArtistic director Michael Feinstein and interim CEO/President Frank Basile unveiled the 2012-13 season at the Center for the Performing Arts – home of The Palladium, The Tarkington and The Studio. “The 2012-13 Season presented by St.Vincent...Tags: Arts, Services and Shopping, Holidays, Josh Turner, B.B. King
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