Music
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South By Kanye West? Rapper plays SXSW
Mar 21, 2009 11:00 pm - AUSTIN, Texas -- For a night, it was South By Kanye West. The rapper performed twice Saturday at the annual South By Southwest music conference and festival, dominating ...
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Placido Domingo puts musical spin on pope's poems
Mar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - When Placido Domingo and his son, Placido Domingo Jr., set about to put the poems of the late Pope John Paul II to music, they discovered several religious passages, alr...
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The-Dream shows he's got what it takes to make great music
Mar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - The-Dream's got power. He helped Beyoncé and all those single ladies get a ring on it, persuaded Mariah Carey to let people touch her body and gave Rihanna an umbrella w...
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Roger McGuinn mixes Byrds hits with the folk traditionMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - About 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Roger McGuinn will sit down for a late lunch in the Elgin area, or perhaps somewhere between there and Chicago, and start drawing on ...
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Ledger-directed music video set for release
Mar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- A Modest Mouse music video directed by the late Heath Ledger is set for release this year. A spokeswoman for the band says Ledger directed an animated vid...
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Anne Brown, Gershwin's original Bess, dies at 96
Mar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - OSLO -- Anne Wiggins Brown, the African-American soprano who starred as the original Bess in George Gershwin's landmark folk opera "Porgy and Bess" but saw her career li...
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Optimism abounds at SXSW despite economy
Mar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- For the nearly 2,000 acts performing at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, this week, the odds of success would seem insurmountable. The music industry is ...
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Reba stops at Sears CentreMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Now that her TV show is long gone, Reba McEntire can get back to music, where she's always struck a remarkably relaxed and unaffected stance as a charming country chante...
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Jack Lawrence, songwriter for Sinatra's first hit, dies at 96
Mar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW HAVEN, Connecticut -- Jack Lawrence, who wrote the lyrics for Frank Sinatra's first hit recording "All or Nothing at All" as well as standards sung by stars such as ...
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Youth symphony has 'Blast!' with its guest conductorMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Can a youth symphony grounded in classical literature find harmony with a guest conductor coming from a drum and bugle corps background? Members of the Metropolis Youth...