Music
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Northwest Festival Orchestra holiday concert is Dec. 21 at HarperDec 11, 2011 11:00 pm - The Northwest Festival Orchestra will perform a varied program of seasonal music including excerpts from “La Boheme” and “Many Moods of Christmas” for its holiday concer...
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Diamond's music earns him Kennedy Center honorsDec 09, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Neil Diamond, somewhat disconcertingly, speaks the same way he sings. The same baritone voice. The same rich timbre. The same melancholy inflection. The caden...
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Wilco trying to keep it freshDec 09, 2011 5:00 am - A couple of decades ago, a young tough Jeff Tweedy thought he was punk rock. That's nothing compared to how out there the 44-year-old Wilco frontman and father of two ...
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Piano ensemble in concert Dec. 10Dec 08, 2011 11:00 pm - The Harper College Piano Ensemble will perform 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, in the Performing Arts Center on the Palatine campus. Tickets are $10 and available at (847) ...
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Schaumburg High School students in T-Mobile adDec 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Five Schaumburg High School choir members were part of a 100-voice dancing and singing production that spent Dec. 1 making a T-Mobile holiday commercial at Woodfield Sho...
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Rogers shares memories and music in holiday tourDec 08, 2011 5:00 am - Singer Kenny Rogers, 73, laughs when he recalls a comical Christmas moment from his childhood in Texas — catching his father, Edward Floyd Rogers, peeking into wrapped C...
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Jay-Z planning concerts ... for the childrenDec 07, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Jay-Z didn't graduate from high school, but he's encouraging others to value their education. The rapper announced Thursday that he will perform two shows at ...
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Guns N’ Roses ready to blaze into Rock HallDec 07, 2011 7:00 am - NEW YORK — Welcome to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Guns N’ Roses. The seminal rock band of the late 1980s and early ’90s, best known for hits like “Welcome to the Jun...
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Chicago Opera Theater names general directorDec 06, 2011 11:00 pm - Chicago Opera Theater has named conductor Andreas Mitisek as its next general director. Mitisek will replace Brian Dickie, who steps down in August 2012 after 12 years w...
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Heartland Voices to perform in Elgin, SchaumburgDec 06, 2011 11:00 pm - The Heartland Voices' annual holiday concerts are filled with choices. Daytime or evening show? Elgin or Schaumburg? Singalong or just listen? No matter what, audiences ...