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INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE NEWS |
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The list of immediately identifiable guitarists working in mostly instrumental music rarely grows. Pat Metheny, Leo Kottke, John Fahey and Ralph Towner have been on the list since the 1970s, and right about 1991 Bill Frisell [ tickets ] joined them at the top. In '91 and '92, Frisell released "Where in the World?" and "Have a Little Faith," two albums that catapulted him as distinctive and ... |
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Universities need to find more ways to serve disadvantaged communities beyond their borders. Michigan State University is doing that with its Community Music School in Detroit. |
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WHAT: Toubab Krewe, an Asheville, N.C.-based instrumental quintet with an Afro-pop, surfer-psychedelic, zydeco, Southern-rock sound. |
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George Harrison: Chapter 16. George Harrison - United States - Presidents - History - Ryan Harrison |
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Works by the contemporary Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas had a central role when the Argento Chamber Ensemble opened its Moving Sounds Festival on Thursday. |
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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute offers classes for seniors at the Esplanade Arts Center in San Jacinto. “Sounds of Music,” a class on balletic, vocal, and instrumental genres, taught by Sasha Moore, between 10 a.m. and noon Mondays, Sept. 20 and Oct. 25. |
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The Grand Theft Auto series has always been known for including a fitting selection of music for each game's locale and time period. |
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Judging by the reviews, the Cleveland Orchestra's recently completed 2010 European Tour and Lucerne Residency appears to have been a successful trip, with critics mostly lavishing praise on the group and its music director. |
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In the lead up to the 2010-11 school year, there have been 82 internal moves among personnel. Many have been precipitated by the opening of the Springfield Literacy Center. One, however, has created a ground swell of attention from a group of parents and residents who have objected to the transfer of Springfield High School music teacher Kevin Cooper. |
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This summer, international jazz critics, in separate polls by Down Beat magazine and the Jazz Journalists Association, agreed that Nicole Mitchell is the best jazz flutist in the world, and this week, she's Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago Jazz Festival. She is a rare person, a flute specialist who improvises on no other horns. She doesn't need to. That's because she has so much to communicate ... |
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