Saxophonist Azar Lawrence to lead quintet at Jazz Café
He'll join three members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for a concert under the umbrella of the Pro Mozart Society of Greater Detroit. The program includes Dvorak's Piano Quartet, Op. 87, and Mozart's Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478. With violinist …
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EARLY MUSIC: That Other Music Revival
The lute was no longer played, nor was the harpsichord. Side-blown flutes had replaced recorders; horns now had valves; the cello, violin, and viola had replaced the viol family; and the rising mercantile classes were increasingly becoming patrons of …
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Your Students, Your Schools — Des Moines east/north
Teachers will receive professional development classes on integrating the arts into the core subjects. Students will work with artists-in-residence. Forest Whitaker, Academy Award-winning actor and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and …
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Andrew Bird's 'Break It Yourself' Is a Tale of Survival
1 album on the Billboard 200 in March, the rocker shared the top 10 with a first timer: Andrew Bird, the classically trained musician who strums his violin like a guitar about as often as he uses the real thing. Bird, who broke the top 10 with his …
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(34) Ahn Eak-tay: composer of national anthem
From an early age, he was interested in modern music, and learned how to play the cello and violin (his first teachers were missionaries, since few Koreans knew much about modern music in the 1910s). After graduating from high school in Pyongyang, …
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