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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, Feb 11, 2012

Classical Music/Opera Listings for Feb. 10-16
New York Times
Violeta Urmana sings Aida, and Marcelo Álvarez is Radamès, the young officer loved by both women in this ancient Egyptian love triangle. Marco Armiliato conducts. At 7:30 pm, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000, metoperafamily.org; ...
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Kristen Buhler, artistic director of The Julians, talks about the ensemble's ...
Oregon Music News
by James Bash on February 6, 2012 The Julians is a quartet of accomplished female singers who have offered innovative programs that feature classical, musical theater, pop, and indie genres. The Portland-based ensemble, named after the mystic and ...
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Oregon Music News
The Big Gigs for the week of 2/10
Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's three Minnesota men with deep voices singing love songs, accompanied by pianist Sanford Moore. Dennis Spears and Julius Collins III are fresh from Illusion Theater's "Always and Forever," which celebrated early '70s soul music. The Rev.
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Casting Call for Feb. 10, 2012
SouthtownStar
Those auditioning should each arrive prepared to sing a song of his or her choice from the show. GRANDE PRAIRIE SINGERS: This group has been making beautiful choralmusic available in the Southland for more than a quarter of a century.
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Music Box: Dazz Band brings the groove to Rams Head On Stage tomorrow
Annapolis Capital
The full band includes bass, a conga line of tuned djembe, and the loveliest acoustic guitar playing. Popular country music singer Julie Roberts captivates the Rams Head On Stage audience for two shows (6 and 9 pm) Saturday. She's a South Carolina girl...
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Meet The Beatles Again: A Conversation With Roberta Flack
Huffington Post (blog)
One day, I was singing a song that talked about being in "my beautiful balloon" with my students, so I put a bunch of balloons in a box and released them right before I started the song. They went crazy...they loved it!
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Concert Review: Bjork goes utterly bonkers in New York City
National Post (blog)
By Mike Doherty Few entertainment clichés are more tired than “a showlike no other,” but just one song into Björk's set in the Great Hall of New York's Hall of Science, the phrase began, for once, to ring true. What with the 24-voice all-female choir ...
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National Post (blog)
Leon Russell and Elton John: A 'Union' Made on Late-Night Radio
Reuters
There have been constant rumors that bands weren't playing their own instruments at those big stadium shows (where the music was largely drowned out by girls screaming anyway). The black artists didn't even pretend; on many of the Motown shows, ...
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Chicago Symphony music director Riccardo Muti talks about the power of music ...
San Jose Mercury News
I think there is much more that we can do with music to help people around the world. For example, two summers ago I did a concert in Trieste, Italy, which is on the border of Slovenia and Croatia. And I invited musicians and young singers from both ...
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Weekend picks: Road trip to the Chicago Auto Show
Chicago Daily Herald
12 Shanta Nurullah of Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music presents a “trip” to Africa through poetry, chants and musical instruments at the Mount Prospect Public Library, 10 S. Emerson St., Mount Prospect. Youngsters of all ages are invited to take ...
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Rare instruments 'up for grabs' to gifted musicians
Montreal Gazette
But there are other good cellos in the land, many of them in the inventory of the Canada Council's Musical Instrument Bank. They will be up for grabs on April 1. Perhaps I should rephrase that: 16 Bank instruments are distributed to worthy Canadians ...
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MUSIC PROFILE: Kristen Shiner McGuire
Rochester City Newspaper
By Ron Netsky on February 7, 2012 When you grow up as an only child with two high-profile performing artists for parents, your fate may be sealed. It took a while, but Kristen Shiner McGuire has finally released her debut album, and it's a satisfying ...
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Spare Times for Feb. 10-16
New York Times
... a concert at this stately, Federal-style row house near Washington Square, where the romantic music of Rossini, Strauss, Mendelssohn and Schubert will be presented in a parlor room decorated in Greek Revival style. The Bond Street Euterpean Singing ...
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Sebastian Bach Live at The Cubby Bear – Wednesday, 2/8 Chicago Concert Review ...
ChicagoNow (blog)
"Here I Am" was stopped after Sebastian said he saw a male fan beating up a female fan. That less than classy concertgoer was escorted from the premises and the song was restarted, though guitarist Nick Sterling looked downright frightened as Bach ...
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ChicagoNow (blog)
LISTINGS: Rock & Pop, Jazz, Folk/Roots, Open Mic/Jamming, Opera, Concerts ...
Sheffield Telegraph
Talon – The Best Of Eagles, definitive tribute show, Buxton Opera House, 7.30pm (£16, £18). Patsy Matheson / Becky Mills, Half of the all-femaleacoustic group, Waking the Witch, The Greystones, Greystones Road. Paul Carrack, Sheffield-born singer, ...
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Sheffield Telegraph
Arts and entertainment calendar for Feb. 9
Deerfield Review
“Black Pearl Sings!”, through Feb. 19 at Northlight Theatre, located at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie. Featuring a cappella renditions of rare American folk songs, the play tells the Depression-era story of ...
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Cello, French Horn, and Piano Trio to Present Concert
Hendrix College Events and News
The final painting of the triptych, Three Young Surrealist Musicians, depicts three young women with instruments in attitudes that suggest being depleted after the final virtuoso performance on a concert; the horn lies at their feet, ...
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Madonna halftime show 2012: Superbowl performance obscured by MIA finger
Northern Voices Online
Madonna halftime show was simply superb. But her Super Bowl 2012 performance has been obscured by MIA finger act Madonna's halftime show is getting much needed praise for the diva. Many say it was one of the best performances from the aging singerin a ...
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Music and Nightlife Listings
Press Herald
8 pm James Montgomery Blues Band, with Barrence Whitfield and David Hull, Port City Music Hall, Portland. $15 in advance; $20 day of show; $30 VIP. portcitymusichall.com. 7 pm Jeff Warner, songs from the 19th century with singer Barbara Benn, ...
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Press Herald
Jill Sobule returns to Sarasota
Bradenton Herald
By Wade Tatangelo Jill Sobule, the original “I Kissed a Girl” singer/songwriter and composer of Asolo Rep's “Yentl,” returns to Sarasota for a performance Monday. Theconcert will feature Sobule's original music as well as songs from the play that runs ...
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No more mellow cello
Sydney Morning Herald
The great English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, a font of wit and sardonic humour, is famously reported to have said to a solo female cellist whose performance dissatisfied him: ''Madam, you have between your legs an instrument that is capable of ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Sound Affects: Music reviews and ratings
Bellingham Herald
Sharon Van Etten is nothing if not confessional - her tales of heartache play like a less remote version of someone like Chan Marshall - but she has proven that good songsand great singing do their own work. Van Etten is right up front, laid out plain ...
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Goings On About Town Night Life
New Yorker
11: Laura Benanti, one of Broadway's brightest young talents (“Nine,” “Gypsy,” “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”), presents an evening of story andsong. (Allen Room, Broadway at 60th St. 212-721-6500.) Broadway at 74th St. (212-465-6500 ...
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Fox411 Country: Superstar couple Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton set to take ...
Fox News
Artists at CMA Music Festival perform and make appearances for free. That raises the total donated to public schools since 2006 to over $6.1 million. The money has been used to go towards items from music labs to instruments. The announcement was made ...
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Around the Valley: Feb. 10, 2012
Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
The Valley Fine Arts Association presents “Paint for me … a Song,” an art show at Bagel's Alaska, 6177 E. Palmer-Wasilla Hwy, from Feb. 11 to March 7. A reception for the artists is from noon to 2 pm, Feb. 11. A daytime golf on ice and a neon golf on ...
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