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Alan Gilbert adds his personal touch to New York Philharmonic
NEW YORK — Listening is very important to Alan Gilbert. It is not surprising for a gifted musician to have attentive ears, but to succeed as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, you have to hear much more than just the music. Before...
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Quick Takes: Lionel Richie's country payoff
Going country has turned out to be a shrewd move by crooner Lionel Richie. He scored his first chart-topping album in more than 25 years Wednesday, as his twang-enhanced "Tuskegee" scooted into the top spot after a 35% sales jump inspired by last week'...Tags: 2016 Olympic Games, Television Industry, Talk Shows (genre), Gavin Newsom, Nicki Minaj
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Harmonic dissonance -- fistfight erupts at Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert
The tempo marking for the second movement of Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 is adagio non troppo – slow but not too slow. One member of the audience watching the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this week apparently thought it was marked furioso.
He got...Tags: Concerts, Culture, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Music
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Justice Department rejects Texas voter ID law
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said Texas' new voter identification law failed to comply with the Voting Rights Act and did not demonstrate that it wouldn't discriminate against minority voters. In a letter to the state, Justice Department...Tags: Minority Groups, Crime, Law and Justice, Lyndon B. Johnson, Rodney Ellis, Politics
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Music review: Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony at Segerstrom Hall
Culture MonsterRichard S. Ginell reviews the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's return to Southern California after a 25-year absence, with Riccardo Muti conducting, at Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.... -
Music review: Premiere of Shostakovich's long-lost 'Orango'
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the world premiere of a fragment of Shostakovich's lost and forgotten opera, "Orango," with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic and given a staging by Peter Sellars.... -
John Williams and Steven Spielberg mark 40 years of collaboration
The quietest room in Hollywood may be the office where John Williams composes. In a bungalow on the Universal Studios lot, steps from the production company of his most frequent collaborator, director Steven Spielberg, Williams works alone at a 90-year-...Tags: John Williams, Robert Altman, Walt Disney, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Oliver Stone
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Shostakovich's 'Orango' found, finished, set for Disney Hall
As Olga Digonskaya held the faded, long-lost documents, her body shaking with emotion, she was transported backward 70 years into Soviet-Russian history.
"I sat there speechless and my hands and legs were trembling," Digonskaya recently recalled of...Tags: Crimes, Concerts, Crime, Law and Justice, Russia, Culture
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Monster Mash: Say goodbye to 'Surfing Madonna'; NEA honors 18; 'The Honeymooners' as a musical
Culture MonsterSurfing Madonna art to be taken down; NEA awards lifetime achievement honors to 18; plans for a new musical version of the Jackie Gleason TV show "The Honeymooners"... -
The 5 Browns' sibling wizardry
For the 5 Browns, a quintet of sibling piano virtuosos who will play Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Mussorgsky in Irvine, classical music skill is all in the family.
Many parents dream of their children mastering a serious instrument — middle-class...Tags: Coldplay (music group), Christianity, Homes, Classical Music (genre), Ravinia Festival
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PASSINGS: Len Lesser, Sidney Harth, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, Santi Santamaria, T.P. McKenna, Howard Lucraft
Len Lesser
Veteran character actor
Len Lesser, 88, a veteran character actor best known for his recurring role in the 1990s as Uncle Leo on the hit NBC-TV comedy "Seinfeld," died Wednesday in Burbank, publicist Laura Stegman said. He had pneumonia and...Tags: Jerry Seinfeld, Heavy Engineering, Michelin Group, Summits, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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