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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Schnittke, Alfred
Violinist Baiba Skride. Playing for the Tuesday Musical Club, the young Latvian showed great strength of character and total technical command in a challenging, mostly 20th-century program including music by Alfred Schnittke ... The program includes “Moz-Art a la Haydn” by Alfred Schnittke Op. 54, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. Paul Polivnick is music director of the New Hampshire Music Festival ... On Friday, a relatively new piece by the Soviet era composer Alfred Schnittke will be played. “His art was suppressed by the Soviet regime,” Arron said. “The expressions through music are very dark and very powerful. This particular piece is ... ... Celebrity Series program at the Shubert Theatre, accompanied by the new Lines of Loss — a succession of soloists and duos who rage and lament to unrelated selections of music ranging from Guillaume de Machaut to Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke ... Boca Symphonia: At 2:30 p.m., the orchestra takes the stage with violinist Giora Schmidt in the Violin Concerto No. 2 of Sergei Prokofiev, Alfred Schnittke’s Moz-Art a la Haydn , and Mozart’s forever durable Symphony No. 40. It’s a smart, nervy ... Phillips Academy Faculty Recital, 7:30 p.m. at Timken Room, Graves Hall, 180 Main St., Andover, featuring cellist Junko Fujiwara Simons and pianist Laura Teplitsky performing Alfred Schnittke's Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano. Free; all welcome. 978 ... Sir William Walton, Bela Bartok, Gunther Schuller, Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina are composers closer to our own day who have crafted concertos for the instrument. So when a violist shows himself to be a master of the instrument, and at the ... If the 19th century had the “Russian Five,” the late 20th century produced the “Russian Three”: Rodion Shchedrin, Sophia Gubaidulina and Alfred Schnittke. Those three composers were in the spotlight at Monday’s Southern Exposure concert by ... In memoriam Alfred Schnittke," for performance following the three movements Schnittke wrote. The Ninth Symphony had its world premiere in June in Dresden's rebuilt Frauenkirche, with Mr. Davies conducting the Dresden Philharmonic. (The completion of ... YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER heard of Rodion Shchedrin, Sophia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke and Witold Lutoslawski. It’s even less likely you’ve heard their music. You can change that by attending the Southern Exposure concert Monday Nov. 12. Work by ...
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