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Music News

Good Days Have Arrived, but Bad Times Have a Say
2008-02-13 06:01 - Bettye LaVette’s sensational performance showed a singer whose phrasing and vocal texture recall Otis Redding and Tina Turner.

Isle-Hopping and Other Musical Jaunts
2008-02-13 06:01 - The results were mixed during the American Composers Orchestra’s ?Culture Shock? concert.

New Life for Works Hitler Tried to Kill
2008-02-13 06:01 - Under the banner ?Recovered Voices,? James Conlon, in his second season as the Los Angeles Opera’s music director, is reviving works suppressed by the Nazis.

An Orchestra Sounding Like Itself Again
2008-02-13 06:01 - The orchestra’s performances at Carnegie Hall this week reminded listeners that character and distinctiveness in classical music have not been obliterated entirely.

Satirical Songs of Noncommitted Lovers and Nonhuman Voices
2008-02-13 05:43 - Lorraine Feather offers songs that are cheerful tugs of war between the past and the present that are performed with a conversational ease.

Together Again, With More Sugar Than Tabasco
2008-02-13 05:43 - Compared with their younger selves, who had their gawky moments, the reunited Spice Girls were absolute pros, ready to live up to the improving effects of nostalgia.

The Music of Tango and Improvisation
2008-02-13 05:43 - Through much of his concert, the pianist Fernando Otero used his instrument as an engine of rhythm.

Abstruse Sounds Governed by Balance and Contrast
2008-02-13 05:43 - The young guitarist Mary Halvorson orients herself around jazz, yet stands about two steps removed from it.

The Beautiful Duckling Gets the Presidents and the Poets
2008-02-13 05:43 - Carla Bruni, the muse of President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, appears to have some of her own in Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden and Dorothy Parker.

Genres to Bend, Words to Finesse, Rhymes to Unravel
2008-02-13 05:42 - Releases from Cascada, Tinie Tempah, the Mountain Goats, Say Hi, AGF and Webbie.

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