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Bill Finegan; big-band arranger; 91 (San Diego Union-Tribune) Bill Finegan, who arranged hits for Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey and who then formed a big band with Eddie Sauter, another legendary arranger, that was famed for skill, daring and very odd instruments ? including the kazoo and glockenspiel ? died June 4 in Bridgeport, Conn. He was 91.
Popular business directory searches (Crossville Chronicle) The sports world lost one of their best this past week with the passing of Jim McKay.
High school strikes up the band (Asbury Park Press) Just knowing a concert band has three upright basses and six bassoons is telling: It's big.
DSO finds little freshness in new music (Detroit Free Press) The Detroit Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of Stacy Garrop's "Becoming Medusa" on Thursday, a sumptuously scored and meticulously crafted 15-minute tone poem based on a troubled figure of Greek mythology.
Palatine starts community marching band (Daily Herald) Do you walk in step with any music you hear? Was your band jacket the ultimate status symbol? Do you start off sentences with, "This one time, at band camp ? "
Part of Nature, Part of Us (Santa Barbara Independent) Although there were many fascinating programs scheduled at this year?s Ojai Music Festival, from the first notes struck on Thursday evening until the last on Sunday, the main focus was on the great American composer Steve Reich.
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