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Music NewsMusic Review: Aretha Franklin’s Evening2008-03-25 06:01 - An announcer hailed Aretha Franklin as the Empress of Music at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night before reverting to her usual title, the Queen of Soul. Neil Aspinall, 66, Dies; Longtime Beatles Aide and Apple Executive 2008-03-25 06:01 - Mr. Aspinall became the Beatles? road manager when the group was still a local dance band and went on to manage the band’s production and management company. Music Review | ?Tristan und Isolde?: Tristan No. 3 Holds a Steady Cour... 2008-03-25 06:01 - Robert Dean Smith became the third singer to take the role of Tristan in the Metropolitan Opera’s run of six performances. Cachao, Mambo’s Inventor, Dies at 89 2008-03-25 06:01 - Israel Cachao López transformed the rhythm of Cuban music when he and his brother, the pianist and cellist Orestes López, extended and accelerated the final section of the stately Cuban danzón into the mambo. Music Review: Elliott Carter Side by Side by Schumann and Haydn 2008-03-25 05:41 - When Musicians From Marlboro framed recent compositions by Elliott Carter with standard works by Haydn and Schumann, the juxtaposition was instructive. Music Review: A Give and Take Between Experienced and Emerging 2008-03-25 05:41 - The public face of the Perlman Music Program is a series of concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Miserable Exuberance From a Yin and Yang 2008-03-25 05:40 - Reviews of new music from Gnarls Barkley, Panic at the Disco, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder and the Raconteurs. Music Review | ?Tristan und Isolde?: Third Tristan Survives Tension at... 2008-03-24 06:01 - Robert Dean Smith became the third singer to take the role of Tristan in the Metropolitan Opera’s run of six performances. Music: A Hybridist Jamming With the World 2008-03-24 06:01 - With his major-label debut, Lionel Loueke adds to jazz’s increasingly international flavor. Music: Great Expectations, and Versatility to Match 2008-03-24 06:01 - At 37, Thomas Adès has learned to handle the pressure of being the next big thing in British composition. It’s all in the breathing. 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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