Archive for April, 2008
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008… Parkinsons disease, it said. A musician with multiple talents, Giuffre played the saxophone and flute, but it was his standout work on the clarinet which sealed his influential reputation. …
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Teen briefs for Sunday, April 27
Sunday, April 27th, 2008… Rebecka Kenton, Hannah Kelly and Aleea Vinke, flute and clarinet trios. First-place soloists: Arielle Dykstra, … Jacob Kambic, Brent Keller, Steven Keller, Ashley Kesteloot, Elizabeth Kinnel, Bradley Kirby, Kaitlyn Kropp, Heather …
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‘Japan Sun Over Hikurangi’
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… Koyu Suzuki (bass, keyboards) and Mitsuru Ogata (flute) Bi-annual exchange “We are attempting to open … in March 2005. The tour is a pilot attempting to stir up interest amongst the …
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University boasts 3 Fulbright scholars
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… Canada; and Ryan Wu, a German and flute performance major from Temple City. The J. … yet, but I’ll know by August. It’s not so much research; it’s a German teaching …
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Weather makes Ban Pho brew the finest
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… telling old stories, playing the khen (bamboo flute) and serving up plenty of maize wine. … a big treasure for me. The job not only supports my family, but I get …
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Sinatra the modernist swings with guitar
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… matter how funny that was. Pizzarelli did not even sing the song, “New York, New … colors to the orchestra, which included alto flute and bass clarinet. The deeply cool arrangement …
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The people’s instrument
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… is a “strange” instrument because it does not fit with other Thai traditional musical instruments. … it using an organ, instead of a flute. The results were good and he played …
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A Bangladeshi community feast
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… a guitar), the banshi (a transverse bamboo flute) and the manjira (finger cymbals) were heard … provided by Sri Lankan percussionist Neshanto, was not the usual offender. Only its crash cymbal, …
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Yale harmonizes music and literacy in local schools
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… students perch in front of music stands, flutes, clarinets and trumpets in hand. Some play … ago at Lincoln-Bassett School, selected as a pilot because of its low test scores, Yaffe …
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Bell will make Mendelssohn concerto ring
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… One winter’s morning not so very long ago, in a busy … till the theme transfers to clarinet and flute. It’s the sheer melodic beauty that carries …
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Zimbabwe: Freshlyground to Spice Up Hifa
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… and Zimbabwean Simon Attwell who plays the flute, mbira, sax and harmonica. Although the band … with its latest 15-track album, Ma’cheri following hot on the heels of successes made by …
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ARNOLDSBURG FAMILY CAPTURES GHOSTLY IMAGES
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… several other faces shown in other photographs (not pictured) Strange things happen on Spring Run … to hillside where families have heard a flute playing “I have no explanation for this,” …
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At Rolex, no gear beats boots
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… kind of like being between boyfriends but not as dramatic.” Barbara Crandall of Irving, Texas, … waterproofability — and he’s offering a lovely flute of Korbel at 9 a.m. if you’d …
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Fears over loyalist parade
Saturday, April 26th, 2008… being organised by the Ballylesson Old Boys Flute Band - as a sectarian display. It … will take part. The Parades Commission has not placed any restrictions on the march. DUP …
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A folk orchestra brings to life the age-old instruments
Friday, April 25th, 2008… dafli and a favourite, the snake charmer’s flute. It’s an initiative by a local music … it has a spirit. And, all that not found in today’s electric gadgets. By Savinder …
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The Musical Instrument Museum Acquires One of the Largest Instrument Collections in the United States
Friday, April 25th, 2008… and since that time the collection has not been accessible to the general public. “ … by Lehnhold of Dresden (c. 1800); a flute by F.G. A. Kirst of Potsdam (c. …
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4.25 Ent. Briefs
Friday, April 25th, 2008… of the new entrance station, a free hot dog lunch, open discussion on the Lake … p.m. Monday. Nastassja Riley will give a flute recital at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Ad …
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MILES TRAVELLED
Friday, April 25th, 2008… who is a well known saxophonist and flute player on the local music scene, but … the Great’, ‘Legends of Jazz’ and ‘The Flautist’ which officially opens to the public … music. His teachers would tell the janitor not to chase him from the building, but …
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Classy Bennett shows Bass fans that he hasn’t lost a beat
Friday, April 25th, 2008… FORT WORTH — Like a chilled flute of high-end champagne, an evening with Tony … The Good Life to ex-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer) and copious praise for Bass Hall …
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From Turandot to tree-planting with opera singer Simon Keenlyside
Friday, April 25th, 2008… From Turandot to tree-planting with opera singer Simon Keenlyside … others. It was a production of Magic Flute that brought Keenlyside and his future wife …
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Zukerman soars with symphony
Friday, April 25th, 2008… momentum, and the strings responded with agitated, intense playing. The piece included an attractive flute melody at its center (Randolph Bowman), but the writing became less interesting near the …
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James Carter Debuts on Emarcy Records May 20 with…
Friday, April 25th, 2008… is featured on both horns, as well as on soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute, on “Present Tense,” which will be released May 20 by Emarcy Records, a division …
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Atlanta transplant leads Railsplitters
Friday, April 25th, 2008… ago to a place that was, well, not exactly on the list of top destinations. … and plays the piccolo, alto saxophone and flute in various school bands. Last weekend, Sanders …
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Dhaam Dhoom music disappoints
Friday, April 25th, 2008… theguitar, saxophone and flute, which are usually not heard in Tamil film music. Percussion is … en anbe beginning and ending with soothing flute arrangements has the indelible stamp of Harris …
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Temporary tattoo? It’s free
Friday, April 25th, 2008… and working on my own hands. They got more intricate as I got older and … Sunday, Reakirt Auditorium • Nakama, trio of flute, koto and percussion, 2 p.m. Sunday, Entertainment …
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CD: Carl Saunders/Bill Holman
Friday, April 25th, 2008… Kevin Axt and drummer Santo Savino, with Sam Most as a guest soloist on flute and baritone. Holman wrote brilliantly for medium-sized bands for a in 1976. Since then, …
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Shouting from the Caboose
Friday, April 25th, 2008… time of decision. Black is a newconsciousness, not a skin color (Steve Biko). SHOUTING FROM … little boy plays so beautifully on his flute that water rose again in the wells. …
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‘Brothers’ get Freak on
Friday, April 25th, 2008… horns. In short, a funk a ride, trombonist/flute player Marcus Farr says. That’s the fun … around. So improvising, changing keys - a lot of the things jam bands and DJs …
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In the spotlight: Jeff Shepherd
Friday, April 25th, 2008… Instruments: Alto and tenor sax, flute and clarinet. Bands/artists you play with … fit the need. These bands are usually not the same personnel each time. The Ragtime …
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Who: Layaali Arabic Ensemble
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… a stringed instrument played flat, like a dulcimer, and voice. Muhammed Mejanour plays nay flute and percussion. Kareen Roustom strums the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument that predates the …
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‘The Piano Men’: Jim Witter to celebrate the songs and songmen of the 1970s
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… the theater. With Witter at the grand piano and musicians on keyboards, guitar, bass, flute, sax, and drums, the music is not an attempt to “re-create” the long list of familiar hits. but to re-create fully …
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W. Slope rancher was ahead of the green curve
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… put stained glass in the front end, Elkins said. His steel art includes a 4-foot-high image of a Kokopelli, the mythical flute player revered by some Native American cultures. The figure stands in Rothschopf’s garden. Rothschopf …
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Wells Town Column - April 24
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… I hope you all got a chance to get outside and clean … trees and played my Native American spirit flute to charm him. The children enjoyed my …
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Playing Beamz is addictive fun - but not worth $600
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… Playing Beamz is addictive fun - but not worth $600 Music and technology have long … has lasers for the sitar, zither and flute. Meanwhile, the kid-friendly standard Old McDonald assigns …
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Ivan Lins & Rosa Passos - Jazz at Lincoln Center
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… Helio Alves (piano), Paulo Paulelli (bass), Celso de Almeida (drums) and Rodrigo Ursaia (saxophones, flute). When: May 23-24, 2008, 7:30pm & 9:30pm Where: The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose …
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Flute and Piano recital at Teatru Manoel
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… Ramona Zammit Formosa (pianist) to give a Flute and Piano Recital during the Lunchtime Concert … Silvio regularly attends master classes with international flautists and took part in baroque Music Workshops …
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Russia is theme as MSO concludes its season
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… by Luzzaschi, a song by Purcell, cantatas by Handel and Clerambault, a quartet for flute, viola, cello and harpsichord by C.P.E. Bach and a scene from “The Comical History …
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Love it live
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… acoustic-style music. Their instrumentation includes guitar, harmonica, flute, saxophone, concertina, recorder, dulcimer, mandolin, pennywhistle, percussion, … more on the way. This is fact, not fiction: The duo Leopold and His Fiction …
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Summer Camps: Chess through Disabilities
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… or visit Dance/Music ” Fredonia Woodwind Quintet Camp is open to musicians who play flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, for grades 9-12 at NYSSMA level 4 to 6. …
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Piano panache puts Korean musician on performance path
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… 5-year-old learns an instrument — at least not in a meaty, music-making sense. Joyce Yang … Vaslav Nijinsky ballet and including a famous flute line; and Camille Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3 …
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Fresh Beans
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… Tamas Marius, stays put on saxophone and flute. The new lineup has been rehearsing since … seemed to fit in right away. One spot was a little trickier than the others. …
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Peruvian Pursuits
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… TSQ-CD-9066, 2008) Chicha Libre - (Barbes Records BROO17, 2008) There’s nothing wrong with pan flutes, goat hoof rattles and wispy Andean melodies, but we all know there’s more to …
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Eric Burdon And War
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… with fantastic virtuoso performances: outstanding mouth organist, sax/flute, tremendous percussionists and superb keyboards. Eric gave … value for money - I’ve paid a lot more for a lot less - in …
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Practicing safe snakes
Thursday, April 24th, 2008… especially when he’s telling them how to spot the handful of venomous snakes that call … sway in response to a snake charmer’s flute. Snakes have no ears. They track the … They track the swaying movement of the flautist by sight. There is no foolproof way …
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Floating Point to feature stellar stars of Jazz and Indian Music
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… harmonic architecture, Indian rhythms and phrasing and white-hot rock intensity. In forming the groundbreaking Indo-Western … drummer Ranjit Barot, percussionist Anant Sivamani, bamboo flutists Shashank and Naveen Kumar, keyboardist Louiz Banks, … with some dazzling exchanges between Naveen’s bamboo flute and John’s flute-like guitar synth. They close …
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Factbox: What it takes to be a geisha
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… instruments such as the three-stringed shamisen, the flute and drums. They also take lessons in … Geishas are bound by an unspoken rule not to reveal details of their conversations with …
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Briefs: Harpeth River Watershed Association starts internships in honor of conservation leader
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… education. HRWA is now accepting resumes for its summer program, which runs May-August. Nashville Flute Choir holds free concerts at BCC, Holy Trinity The Nashville Flute Choir will have …
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United Methodist Trio performance Sunday afternoon
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… professor of Early Childhood Education at Hesser College in Manchester and Alison Witham on flute, who teaches music at Laconia High School. Featured on the concert will be an …
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Continual violence at Palestine’s doorstep
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… soldiers confront a young Palestinian man then shoot him in the head. There was blood … Hindi-influenced blend of guitar, drums, piano and flute speak of his desire for peace …
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Bill OConnell, Triple Play
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… recordings being released these days its refreshing not to have to listen to another piano/drum/ … pianist Bill OConnell is accompanied by renowned flautist Dave Valentin and veteran percussionist Richie Flores … takes the lead and plays the alto flute on the mellow A Call for Sanity …
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Capital music school on song for open weekend
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… the public to raise awareness of the one-to-one tuition it offers in instruments including flute, guitar, drums and violin. Staff will be on hand to answer any queries and …
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Scottish heritage weekend planned
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… Baltimore will be guest minister. The Highland Band along with Elizabeth Ford on the flute and the Jim Lang Celtic Group will provide music. The ceremony has its roots …
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Free concert features Juno-winning harpist
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… and Gene DiNovi. Goodman won the Grand Prix du Disque Canada for her recording, Flute and Harp , with Robert Aitken and also won a Juno Award in 1995 …
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Peter Asplund: In a Swedish Way
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… A part that got a whole lot easier with the 2004 … there. Mother Carina plays piano, father; Bernt, flute. “They don’t play jazz, but that was …
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JIM JONES: John Wesley left America under threat of indictment, but history shows he triumphed
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… street musician played “Amazing Grace” on a flute as an imposing statue of John Wesley … is famous. Wesley’s statue is near the spot where he had a residence and garden. …
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Circuit Court candidates make their case for election
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… the judicial system to what are the root causes of domestic violence to what would … granddaughter thought he played the Native American flute rather well. Henderson said he was lacking …
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Touchstone Gallery owner to retire
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… art and crafts, books, variety of CDs, flutes How did the business begin? “Originally, I … don’t see signing a five-year lease. It’s not as stable a Main Street as it …
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Music program lifts patients’ spirits at Glenwood Sprin…
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… on Wednesdays. The program has a great selection of genres and instruments, including violin, flute, recorders, harp, classical guitar, cello and folk singers. Peterson said the impact on patients …
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Okami
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008… picks. Just in time for summer, we’ve got the cutest video game chicks ready to … action, complete with pounding drums and soothing flute melodies. The sound effects are solid, if …
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Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute…
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008… a human element to Mitchell’s dreamlike arrangements. Accompanying Ndosi’s riveting testimonials, the leader’s haunting flute and David Boykin’s robust tenor commingle with David Young’s clarion trumpet and Tomeka Reid’s …
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