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Jericho Road, Ryan Shupe wrap up concert series (Provo Daily Herald) The Timpview High School Marching Band is nationally recognized for its musical prowess. Since early May, the band has been raising money toward the purchase of new instruments by showcasing the gifts of other people who make beautiful music -- the band-sponsored Summer Concert Series has so far included such locally popular performers as Jon Schmidt and Jim Brickman.
The Philharmonic, Just on a More Human Scale (New York Times) The New York Philharmonic Ensembles give audiences a sense of the individual players who are normally seen as parts of a vast musical machine.
Can We Talk? Lively Musical Conversations, With a Contemporary Slant (New York Times) Every piece chosen explored the concept of concertato, the musical equivalent of a conversation in a lively, eclectic social setting.
Free instruments for poor children (Guardian Unlimited) Children living on England's poorest estates will be provided with musical instruments and taught for free how to perform works by composers such as Bach and Beethoven.
Instruments strike chord at National Music Museum (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) VERMILLION, S.D. -- One visitor might be drawn to the six-string Spanish guitar on which Bob Dylan composed some of his earliest songs. ...
'Thespis', Lost G&S Operetta with New Score by Shepard, Premieres in NYC (Playbill via Yahoo! News) Grammy Award winner Thomas Z. Shepard - famous as a producer of legendary Broadway musical cast albums - will hear the June 16 concert world premiere of the new score he composed for Thespis, the Gilbert and Sullivan burlesque that is obscure today because the original Arthur Sullivan music was lost.
Play-along video games pump up music industry (The Record) Tapping on fake instruments and screeching into microphones connected to video game consoles has become lucrative for both the music and gaming industries.
Free instruments for poor children (Guardian Unlimited) Julian Lloyd Webber backs scheme to give instruments and free tuition to some of England's poorest neighbourhoods
Historical marker honors Ky. musician, craftsman (Lexington Herald-Leader) The late Homer C. Ledford, musician and master craftsman who made thousands of musical instruments, was honored on Saturday with a Kentucky Historical Society highway marker erected in College Park. As family and friends gathered for the unveiling, several spoke of Ledford's extraordinary ability, not just as a craftsman who built and repaired instruments, but as a songwriter, singer and ...
Steve Turre's shell game is a winner (Pioneer Press) The conch shells trombonist Steve Turre has learned to play as a unique side specialty are not traditional jazz instruments, but the adventurous way Turre uses them is certainly in the jazz tradition.
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