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They conduct classical, but they love pop and rock too
Ever wonder what longhairs listen to when they let their hair down? Once upon a time, when conductors were regarded as remote intellectual titans, no one would have thought to ask. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, once described...
Tags: Cat Stevens, Culture, Arts and Culture, Classical Music (genre), Tina Turner
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TSA warns Super Bowl fans to leave mining tools, air horns at home
Football fans flying to New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII will be packing a lot of enthusiasm, but they'd better not haul pickaxes, air horns or flasks of booze. And if you're bringing a live raven, check with out your airline's pet policy before getting...
Tags: Mining, Metal and Mineral, Transportation Security Administration, San Francisco 49ers, Football
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Conductors pick their pop favorites: Prince? Yes. Elvis? Both.
Asking some of the finest classical conductors in the world what pop, jazz or rock music they listen to seemed like a quixotic idea. Even if they had favorites, what were the chances conductors would take time out from their busy schedules to respond?...Tags: Italy, Celine Dion, Deep Purple (music group), Music, Entertainment
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Dave Brubeck dies at 91; jazz legend
In the strait-laced Eisenhower 1950s, Dave Brubeck seemed, on one hand, deeply conventional. He didn't drink, smoke or take drugs. He favored expressions like "baloney!" and "you bet" over ruder alternatives. He had a prodigious work ethic that had been...
Tags: Jazz (genre), Culture, Music Theater, Arts and Culture, Classical Music (genre)
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The funky beat of musical New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — The cab careened past Washington Square and onto Frenchmen Street. It was close to 10 p.m., and the neighborhood was filled with locals adorned with tattoos, piercings and lots of ragged black accessories. "The cab drivers call this...
Tags: Jazz (genre), Bars and Clubs, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Hurricanes, Music Industry
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Review: A fascinating education in 'The Jazz Standards'
-------------------- The Jazz Standards A Guide to the Repertoire Ted Gioia Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95 -------------------- I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...
Tags: Erroll Garner, Music Industry, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett
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Disneyland princesses moving into new Fantasy Faire village in 2013
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBreaking a wicked stepmother's curse, Disneyland's fairytale princesses will be whisked away from their crowded one-room temporary home in 2013 and magically transported to a spacious new storybook village more befitting of their royal lineage. Blame...Tags: Cab Calloway, Arts and Culture, Tangled (movie), Count Basie, Snow White (fictional character)
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His Excellency, Ambassador Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Opinion L.A.To find the earliest stories the Los Angeles Times wrote about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, I had to search for his birth name -– Lewis Alcindor Jr. He was a New York high school student being courted by UCLA and other powerhouse...... -
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LA Times MagazineJazz is only the beginning for Esperanza Spalding... -
Book review: 'Half-Blood Blues' by Esi Edugyan
Tribune NewspapersNot unlike its counterpart rock 'n' roll, memorable jazz novels occupy a pretty slim shelf at the local bookstore. Though the music has been gracefully spun into fiction by Roddy Doyle, Michael Ondaatje and — most distinctively — Rafi Zabor in...Tags: Documentary (genre), Arts and Culture, Wynton Marsalis, Berlin (Germany), Michael Ondaatje
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Guitarist Charlie Hunter talks 'jam bands,' jazz and going it alone
Culture MonsterSelf-releasing his own recordings since 2008, Charlie Hunter comes to the Mint this weekend joined by a collaborator from his earliest days on Blue Note Records.... -
Video mash-up maker Andy Rehfeldt is quite the YouTube cutup
Pop & HissAndy Rehfeldt: Video mash-up master Andy Rehfeldt's work garners as many as 3 million views from a single video. Mash-up victims include pop star Rihanna, whom he has singing to country music, speed-metal icons Megadeth performing laid-back reggae and...
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