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Violinist Hahn: Music from a different direction
LONDON (Reuters) - Classical music fans know that American violinist Hilary Hahn plays a wicked concerto, knocking out the fiendishly fast final bars of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, for example, faster and with more sheer energy than pretty much anyone else alive. "It's a finger twister but it's so fun. ...
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Music: Peter Serkin, Shanghai Quartet
It’s interesting how often folk music from one country can suggest an unlikely kinship with folk music from other, far-flung regions of the world. The more I listened to Bright Sheng’s Dance Capriccio for Piano and String Quartet on Thursday at the Freer Gallery — where it was given a handsomely played Washington premiere by pianist Peter Serkin and the Shanghai Quartet (the musicians for whom ...
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Buzz: Music Hall Revitalization group loses Rouse
Music Hall was buzzing with the rumor last night that Jack Rouse, head of the Music Hall Revitalization Co. that is spearheading a $165 million redo of the hall, resigned yesterday. Sources say that Rouse, a businessman and arts supporter, sent an e-mail letter of resignation to members of the board of the Music Hall [...]
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Music Review: Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
Music Review: Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 03:34 p.m., Thursday, May 17, 2012 [...] Kissing Families," from SSPU's debut 2005 EP Pikul comes straight out of The Pixies style of guitar-based indie pop, complete ...
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Chuck Brown dies: King of D.C. go-go music, influential sample source
Chuck Brown, the "king of go-go music," has died in Washington D.C. The musician, whose work with big band funk in the 1970s and '80s was influential both as a bandleader and as inspiration on early electronic dance music. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts addresses this influence.
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