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  • 48 hours: Your guide to Metro Detroit's weekend best

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    11 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and Sunday. 22801 Woodward Ave., corner of Nine Mile in Ferndale.

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  • Music & Dance

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    Herbie Hancock will give a concert at the Royal Paragon Hall of Siam Paragon tomorrow.

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  • What's the story?

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    What is it with young white women and microphones? When Tamla Motown dominated the rock-soul charts in the 1960s, most of its young singers were male .

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  • First Friday art walk in Ashland

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    "Curioser and Curioser" and other pen-and-ink drawings by Gorgeous Gwen Kirk will be at Art & Soul Gallery during the Third Friday art walk.

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  • Record likely for ancient ink wash

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    A writing brush washer to be auctioned by Council An ink-wash painting signed by eight scholars from the Yuan Dynasty is expected to set an auction record for ancient Chinese painting in the upcoming auction season.

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  • 10 Richest Men In UK Music & 5 Young Millionaires

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    The UK Sunday will publish lists of the richest men in women in UK music this week, but have offered a sneak preview.

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  • Good for You, Treasure Coast, May 8

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    Students of Cindy Kessler performed at Sterling House in Stuart. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Keiser University golf students who have completed a two-year associate of science degree in Golf Management.

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  • Bottom dollar

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    In Robert Carsen’s 2004 production of La traviata for Teatro La Fenice, the Prelude is staged.  During this haunting music, we see Violetta lounging on a huge bed while more than a dozen men pay her for her services with wads of oversized dollar bills.  By the time Act One begins, the bed is virtually covered ...

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  • What Shostakovich Was Really Expressing

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    The Soviets distributed this picture of Shostakovich, said to be at work on his Seventh Symphony under siege in Leningrad in 1941.

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  • Spotlight | Morris Township: New Jersey Rock History: More Than Big Hair and the Boss

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    MEMORIESMemorabilia from the Shirelles, who began their careers in Passaic, at the Morris Museum.

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  • A Blacksmith’s Touch Makes Music Light

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    Paul Fuchs at his farm in Tuscany, where he builds, displays and plays his unusual instruments, including the “wooden hand."

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  • An Operatic Conundrum Untangled

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    Csilla Csovari in "Sonntag", the last piece of Karlheinz Stockhausen's “Licht” cycle.

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  • Playlist: Breezes of Jazz, Country and Black Metal

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    Gerald Clayton is out with his second album.

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  • Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, Grand Rapids Symphony close Classical Season with ... - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com

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    The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, Grand Rapids Symphony close Classical Season with The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com Timelessness gives classical music much of its charm. The Grand Rapids Symphony closes its 2010-11 Classical Series this weekend with music spanning more than 300 years. Soloist Anne Akiko Meyers was on stage with her 17th century Stradivarius violin, ...

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  • The Juilliard Orchestra performs Mahler's Ninth Symphony in New York City - World Socialist Web Site

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    The Juilliard Orchestra performs Mahler's Ninth Symphony in New York City World Socialist Web Site A recent performance of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony, his last completed work in that form, highlighted the role of the Juilliard School in New York City's classical music scene. The Juilliard Orchestra, the most advanced of several and more » ...

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  • Beyond classical - Ottawa Citizen

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    Beyond classical Ottawa Citizen Pianist Menahem Pressler, British soprano Emma Kirkby, Quebec City orchestra Les Violons du Roy, a music crawl at the National Gallery of Canada and some classical music clowns whose YouTube videos and more » ...

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  • Kevin Bao in Concert May 22

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    Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy presents Kevin Bao Piano Recital on Sunday, May 22 at 3pm at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy High School's Lindner Theater,11525 Snider Road, Cincinnati, OH 45249.

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  • ISO takes some of its Pops to the Palladium

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    Jay Harvey joined the staff of The Indianapolis Star in 1986, after 15 years on the staff of the Flint Journal in Michigan.

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  • Five tips for maintaining a compost pile

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    Banana peels are good for something other than pratfalls. Food scraps such as eggshells, melon rinds and banana peels can help nourish plants.

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  • Obituaries for May 6, 2011

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    Donald A. McKay Sept. 23, 1931 - May 1, 2011 Lifelong Tuolumne County resident Donald A. McKay died Sunday at a family friend's home in Sonora.

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  • FRIDAY

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    Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens will celebrate National Public Gardens Day by providing free admission to all visitors.

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  • Symphony takes 'Alice' for a wild ride

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    Mark Kanny is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's classical music critic and can be reached at 412-320-7877 or via e-mail. Heinz Hall didn't look or sound like itself Friday night when Leonard Slatkin led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in the first of two concerts devoted to Twisted Storybook Favorites.

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  • Curtis Opera's 'Idomeneo' begins with a bang

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    With only a handful of local performances to its name, Mozart's superb but neglected Idomeneo commands attention in most any shape and form.

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  • Weekend traffic woes from racers, rowers, pros?

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    At the 20th annual Race for the Cure in 2010, Adrienne Magness of Langhorne hugged fellow breast-cancer survivor Gloria Coccoli, of Springfield, Delaware County.

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  • Editorial quick hits: High cost of low standards

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    Michigan already knows it's behind the packin terms of education performance. And a recent report from the Alliance for Excellent Education, an education advocacy group in Washington, D.C.,confirms the negative effects that stem from inadequate secondary instruction.Seventy percent of Michigan students who enter community college must take ...

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  • For Slidell music and art lovers, concert in the park was an 'enchanted' evening

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    The large and enthusiastic audience filling Slidell's Heritage Park in picture-perfect weather April 30 was most certainly in agreement: That was "Some Enchanted Evening." Scott Threlkeld / The Times-Picayune Thousands gathered April 30 for a free concert by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra presented as part of the 'Some Enchanted Evening'

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  • aworks pick only ten :: week of april 30, 2011 /aging contemporaries/

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    I'm relatively satisifed with my playlist of the best of this week's listening. It doesn't include two items that were completely puzzling (John Cage/Sun Ra and Terry Riley & Son) but I like what I picked, even if it has ...

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  • Music and Beyond Festival definitely beyond classical - Ottawa Citizen

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    Music and Beyond Festival definitely beyond classical Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA — Pianist Menahem Pressler, British soprano Emma Kirkby, Quebec City orchestra Les Violons du Roy, a music crawl at the National Gallery of Canada and some classical music clowns whose YouTube videos have been seen by millions are among and more » ...

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  • Perlman Music Program Alumni Perform

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    Just in time for Mother's Day, the Gates of Grove sanctuary at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons will host a free Tchaikovsky concert on Sunday at 4 p.m. The performance will feature violinists Tessa Lark and Eric Silberger and cellist Jacqueline Choi, alumni of the Perlman Music Program who have been selected to compete in the internationally ...

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  • Eclectic guitarist Willy Porter up for challenge; performs today at Blue Loon

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    Willy Porter relishes the challenge of writing songs and playing guitar. Not a bad job if you can get it, yet, you rarely become a winner right way.

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  • New CD releases: Kate Royal, Beastie Boys and more

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    "My rhymes age like wine as I get older." The latest from the Beastie Boys is peppered with references to the trio's age and longevity in the game .

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  • Perfect Careers

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    A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music.

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  • A safe 2011-12 season

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    The premise of this blog is that it's everyone's right to have an opinion about classical music.

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  • Musical magic and flying discs: iPhone apps of the week

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    Most everyone has probably heard about the dust up over the location-tracking behavior on iOS devices since last June.

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  • Cleveland's Terrance McKnight is spreading music legacy

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    Music is the universal language by which a society communicates with itself and the rest of the world.

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  • Westlake High School's choirs receive honors at competitions

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    When Alan Rose, Westlake High School's choral director for the past 26 years, left California for Orlando last month with 65 students to participate in the Heritage Festivals and Festival Disney, his dream was to return with a golden Mickey from Festival Disney.

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  • She's not acting her age

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    Friday, May 6, 2011 at 1:54 p.m. / Ken Jacques Nicki Elledge as Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" San Diego Junior Theatre When: 7 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; through May 15.

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  • Virginia Mayhew celebrates CD release at Deer Head tonight

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    The Deer Head Inn will feature saxophonist Virginia Mayhew with her quartet from 7 to 11 p.m. today during a CD release party for Mayhew's new CD, "Mary Lou Williams - The Next 100 Years." Performing with Mayhew on tenor saxophone are Ed Cherry on guitar, Cameron Brown on bass, Sylvia Cuenca on drums.

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  • New Social Networking Site For Parents

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    New Social Networking Site For Parents New Website Creates Interactive Parenting Community May 06, 2011 Social networking is the popular buzz word today, but more than that, it represents the valuable opportunity to gather like-minded people around a specific interest or concern.

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  • Moving Out of the Nest

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    May 5th 2005: This afternoon my stay with my friends is over. I am no longer welcome and have no place to go.

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  • Amjad Ali Khan, Jogen Chowdhury honoured

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    Kolkata, May 6: Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and renowned painter Jogen Chowdhury were Friday conferred with lifetime achievement awards by luxury accessories maker Mont Blanc and Dakshinee, a premier music academy in Kolkata.

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  • Cleveland Men of Song taking music to a whole new level

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    Carlton Fellows had a musical epiphany. The 57-year-old Cleveland man had a vision of putting a group of men together to sing in a chorus in a way unheard of in the Cleveland area.

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  • SF Ballet's 'Mermaid' Still Swimming Strongly

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    San Francisco Ballet is closing the season out with an encore run of John Neumeier's fantasy-laden " The Little Mermaid ." Watching Wednesday's performance, my review from last year stands firm: this contemporary ballet is both mesmerizing and disturbing.

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  • Eastern Connecticut: Capitol Theater Arts Academy's Spring Dance Showcase

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    Regional Submitted by Teddie Sleight, EASTCONN, on 2011-05-05. EASTCONN's Capitol Theater Arts Academy will present its annual Spring Dance Showcase, featuring young dancers from 13 area towns, on Saturday, May 21, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, May 22, at 2 p.m., at EASTCONN's Capitol Theater, 896 Main St., Willimantic.

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  • Weekend Reading List

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    Says: May 6th, 2011 at 4:15 pm Classical Music: A history according to YouTube Oh YEAH baby! That is solid gold.

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  • Levine Cancels

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    I know, it's the least-surprising post title you'll see this year. But this cancellation is of all performances from now until mid-October, excepting the two upcoming Met performances of Die Walkuere. Here's the press release: Following his doctors’ advice, James Levine is taking the summer off to rest and recuperate from his ongoing back condition. While he will conduct the remaining performances of Die Walküre at the Met (May 9 and 14 – a matinee performance that will be transmitted live ...

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  • More on the BSO

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    Matthew Guerrieri does the numbers on next year's repertory. The winner: that rarely-played master, Beethoven!Jeremy Eichler reports broadly on the season; Mark Volpe divulges that the search committee to replace James Levine has not even met. Indeed, it sounds as though next season was planned on the assumption that Levine would still be music director. There must have been plenty of scrambling to deal with that.

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  • Der Götter Ende dämmert nun auf

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    This is the end. James Levine has just canceled all engagements between now and October, except for the two remaining peformances of Die Walküre at the Met May 9 and 14.  Fabio Luisi will take over the Carnegie Hall concert with Natalie Dessay on May 16 and Levine’s duties on the Japan tour, conducting Don ...

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  • Synthetist Summit at LPR tonight

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    There’s going to be an album release party tonight at Le Poisson Rouge. Two groups on the New Amsterdam Records roster, NOW Ensemble and the Chiara String Quartet, are celebrating their respective releases. Chiara are presenting string quartets by Jefferson Friedman, along with remixes thereof by special guest electronica artists Matmos. Meanwhile, NOW Ensemble presents ...

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  • Music Review: Violin and Piano, in an Evening’s Conversation

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    The German violinist Christian Tetzlaff gave master classes to prepare a group of young musicians for two evenings at Weill Recital Hall.

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