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Music Review Orchestra of the League of Composers Takes On a Challenge
Making new music is hard work, both for the composer confronted with a blank page (or screen) and for the performer, who is usually faced with limited time to hone an unfamiliar piece before offering it to the public. The challenge is especially acute for an orchestra, for which expenses are high and time is in short supply. Full marks, then, to the Orchestra of the League of ...
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Umm al-Qaiwain Crown Prince opens 7th Exhibition of Fine Arts
WAM UMM AL-QAIWAIN, June 18th, 2013 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Rashid bin Saud bin Rashid Al Mu'alla, Crown Prince of Umm al-Qaiwain, has commended the keen interest and support given by the wise leadership of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his brother Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for the ...
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A Word With Rick Moranis Rick Moranis Discusses His New Album My Mothers Brisket
Rick Moranis already had one of the odder résumés in show business. This week he made it more so with a new album of songs about, among other things, a brisket and a bris. On Tuesday, Mr Moranis released ...
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Mark Morris The man who put heart back into dance
Mark Morris: 'You don't feel like you're looking at a dance company,' said Canadian dancer Peggy Baker of the Mark Morris Dance Group. 'You feel like you're looking at a gathering of people who dance together.' (Michael Falco FOR THE GLOBE AND ...
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God of Carnage at Center Stage Theater
/small-ad --> The director and teacher Peter Frisch has given a great deal of support to the performing arts community here in Santa Barbara, both through his leadership as the initial directory at the new Granada and through his acting studio classes. He's a seasoned professional, with serious credits in stage and television, and I'm sure he'll be back with something ...
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Marlings career a bit of a fluke
Brit Marling looks as if she might have been born wearing a string of very good pearls. That the patrician blonde, 29, is a screenwriter and actress is a bit of a fluke, to hear her tell it. The Chicago-born Marling was on another sort of trajectory altogether when she started an economics degree at Georgetown University. There was, for example, that job at Goldman Sachs she turned down. ...
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Cyrus Hemsworth go on date night
Singer/actress Miley Cyrus and her fiance Liam Hemsworth proved their romance is still going strong on Monday after stepping out together for the first time since January. The stars' relationship has come under intense scrutiny amid persistent reports suggesting they are on the verge of a split, but they showed no signs of trouble in Los Angeles, where they were photographed heading out to ...
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John Studzinski Marrying business and the arts
The banker John Studzinski is helping to nurture young theatre directors. He's a living example of how commerce and culture can sit comfortably ...
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Painting of the artists son wins BP portrait award for Susanne du Toit
Susanne du Toit's portrait of her son Pieter. 'I look to the body to provide as much expression as the face,' she says. Photograph: National Portrait ...
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Dance Review Swan Lake Returns to American Ballet Theater
What is an American Ballet Theater season at the Metropolitan Opera House without swans? On Monday the company presented its first ...
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Dance Review Rebecca Laziers Coming TogetherAttica Evokes 1971 Riot
Thanks largely to live music, but also to excellent dancers and a memorable use of space and lighting, Rebecca ...
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Music Review The Chelsea Music Festival Opens With a Homage
If you look past the sillier aspects of the Chelsea Music Festival ...
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NBC Replaces Veteran Director of Today
NBC News is replacing the longtime director of ...
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The many musical pinnacles of T Bone Burnett
Producer-musician T Bone Burnett, firmly established as the guru of Americana music, was recruited by folk-rock icon John Mellencamp and suspense author Stephen King to make some sense out of their long-gestating Southern-gothic ...
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New book claims child-catchers kidnapped boys for the Elizabethan stage
Child-catchers stalked the streets of Elizabethan England seeking out boys they could force on to the stage, an Oxford academic has claimed in a new ...
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Goo Goo Dolls return with Magnetic
Veteran Buffalo pop-rock band Goo Goo Dolls' return to a more upbeat sound on their new album, Magnetic, which hit stores this month, is the result of a number of positive things going on. First and foremost, frontman Johnny Rzeznik, the group's 47-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist, has given up drinking and is about to get married in L.A. in July for the second time (he divorced ...
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Books of The Times Seven American Deaths and Disasters Transcribes the News
Kenneth Goldsmith is a conceptual poet, a literary trickster whose books are found art of a sort. He mines the mundane. One of his volumes, ...
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Crazy Rich Asians an interview with author Kevin Kwan
Catty, brand-obsessed society matrons private-jetting away for a weekend of shopping. A gilded mansion that replicates the Palace of Versailles. A secret, sprawling family estate hidden even from Google Earth. An awe-inspiring $40-million wedding, complete with a custom Valentino gown for the bride, a celebrity and aristocracy-packed guest list and the Cirque du Soleil as entertainment during ...
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Brand humiliates MSNBC host
Despite the gruff, inappropriate side of him that he frequently shows the public, Russell Brand is one of the most intelligent comedians around. He took to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" talk show to discuss his new comedy tour "Messiah Complex," but apparently those who were there to speak to him didn't get the memo that Brand is a celebrity to take seriously. Co-host Mika ...
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Vergara a rising Modern woman
LOS ANGELES - It was an adventure that somehow turned into a career. When Sofia Vergara got a call to audition for a Barry Sonnenfeld movie called Big Trouble back in 2001, the 29-year-old Colombian wasn't an aspiring actress. She was a TV hostess on the Spanish-language Univision network, a former dental student who'd fallen into modeling and then hosting for the Latin market. She ...
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Depp horse fall caught on film
Video footage of Johnny Depp's horrific fall from a horse on the set of new movie The Lone Ranger has been released as part of a behind-the-scenes preview. The actor revealed last year he was left battered and bruised when he was thrown from his steed, Scout, while shooting the Disney adaptation of the classic TV show. Studio bosses have now unveiled a clip of the horrifying accident, ...
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Analysis Hezbollah takes Syrian centre-stage yet remains in shadows
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The voice crackling over the Hezbollah radios was clear and authoritative, and the guerrillas poised to attack the Syrian border town of Qusair recognized it ...
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Theater Review The Henrietta a Comedy Set in 1887 Resonates Today
Seemingly every convention of late-19th-century theater is used in ...
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Picture This Pole Dance
Inges Idee/ Emscherkunst Artists have reimagined a power pylon as an electrified dancing silhouette for a summer exhibition in Germany's Ruhr region. Through an optical illusion the art work "Zauberlehrling" (sorcerer's apprentice), by the art collective Inges Idee, seems to dance as the viewer approaches. The piece is part of the second edition of the Emscherkunst ...
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Pocket cinema Huawei unveils latest smartphone Ascend Mate
China's telecom equipment and mobile handset manufacturer Huawei has launched its latest smartphone Ascend Mate priced at Rs. 24,900. Best-selling author Chetan Bhagat unveiled the device, which comes with 6.1 inch HD display, an operating system of Android 4.1 JellyBean, a 1.5 GHz Hi-Silicon quad-core processor and a 4050 mAh ...
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Morocco recieves aid as part of EU ties
Morocco has taken another step forward in its several years long pursuit of closer ties with the EU, receiving a vote of confidence from the continent’s organizing body in the form of aid, which will be used to pursue areas of development needed to modernize and reform the country.
Morocco is to receive Euro 580 million (roughly MAD 6 billion) from the European Union over the next four years, according to a joint agreement that was signed between Morocco and the EU recently, which it is hoped will provide the country with the means to further integrate itself with the European economy. Read more
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