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From Garbage Heap to Ballet Barre
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The ghetto called Aroma reeks of putrefying trash collected by its residents for recycling. Half-naked children with grimy faces play on muddy dirt roads lined by crumbling shanties of tarpaulin walls, cracked … »Read
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Hilde Zadek Remembers
VIENNA (AP) — It was 1947 in post-war Vienna, and Hilde Zadek remembers taking a deep breath behind the curtain. A rookie on her first opera gig, she was about to sing the prestigious role of Aida for an audience full of particularly harsh … »Read
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Richard Rodney Bennett Dies
British composer and performer Richard Rodney Bennett on Christmas Eve at his home in New York. He was 76. His filmscores are the best known of his works (Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express and Four Weddings and a … »Read
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‘Why I Left Muncie’ by Sedgwick Clark
‘Rough and Regie by James Jorden
‘An American in Paris by Frank Cadenhead
‘Berlin Times’ by Rebecca Schmid
‘Munich Times by Andrew Powell
‘The Torn Tutu’ by Rachel Straus
‘A Rich Possession’ by James Conlon
‘Tanglewood Vlog by Eugenia Zukerman
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Celebrating Stoki After a Century
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A century after Leopold Stokowski took the reins of The Philadelphia Orchestra , a history detective set on his trail has tracked down rarely-seen correspondence and belongings of the conductor affectionately … »Read
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Giordani Makes a Wise Decision
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Marcello Giordani struggled mightily, his top notes effortful and thin. It turned out the tenor's third performance of Aeneas in the Metropolitan Opera's revival of Berlioz's Les Troyens would be his last. The Met … »Read
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Another Shoe Drops at Creative Scotland
Perhaps the idea for Creative Scotland, the country’s primary funding body, looked good on paper. Formed two years ago by a merger between the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) and Scottish Screen, CS distributes £80 million in government … »Read
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