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Music NewsA Night Out With | Liam Finn: Flying Solo (Like Dad)2008-04-08 05:42 - Liam Finn tests the weather in the Village while promoting his debut album, ?I?ll Be Lightning.? Consumed: Battle Cries 2008-04-08 05:41 - How one veteran tries to use entertainment to convey the war experience. Playlist | Ry Cooder: Guitar Licks That Resonate and Lyrics That Linge... 2008-04-08 05:41 - Billy Bragg, troubadour of the oppressed and bard of the lovelorn, discusses music by Ry Cooder, the Hold Steady, Grinderman, Duke Special and the View. You May See a Stranger 2008-04-08 05:41 - Paulo Szot is taking a leap of faith from the world of opera to the Broadway stage in the revival of ?South Pacific.? Music: First Came Crazy, Now Comes Odd 2008-04-08 05:41 - When your first album produces a huge hit, the follow-up expectations are high, as the duo Gnarls Barkley is finding out. Music Review | Atlanta Symphony: Can You Hear the Painterly Vistas? 2008-04-08 05:41 - The program that Robert Spano and his Atlanta Symphony Orchestra brought to Carnegie Hall was big in just about every way. Music Review | Belcea Quartet: Timeless Daring Revealed, With a Probin... 2008-04-08 05:40 - For its important appearance in Zankel Hall the group offered what on paper looked like a not particularly adventurous program. Music Review | Emily Saxe: A Soft Sound That Leans Heavily on Smarts 2008-04-08 05:40 - Honky-tonk cabaret may be an oxymoron, but Emily Saxe makes a case for a refined hybrid style that is a sound unto itself. Music Review | Sasha Cooke and Pei-Yao Wang: Just What the Doctor Orde... 2008-04-08 05:40 - Sasha Cooke, a mezzo-soprano, and a fine young pianist, Pei-Yao Wang, presented a program that sounded as if it had been in the works for months. Music Review | Peter Serkin: Bird Song, Modernism and Brahms Take Flig... 2008-04-08 05:40 - Peter Serkin enjoys presenting programs that intriguingly juxtapose the old and the new, as his recital excitingly demonstrated. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 |
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