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A voice silenced in 1996 is brought back to life
Special to The Baltimore SunDuring her short life of 33 years, singer Eva Cassidy was hardly known beyond her gigs at Blues Alley in Washington and at Pearl's, Reynolds Tavern and the Maryland Inn in Annapolis. Her two recordings, a 1992 CD called The Other Side that featured go-...Tags: Patsy Cline, Contracts, Billie Holiday, Annapolis, Diseases
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Bebe Neuwirth Has Come A Long Way From "Lilith" to Cabaret Singer
Special To The CourantAlthough best-known for her classic role as Lilith, the alluring but viper-tongued, castrating Ice Queen of Mean on the hit comedy "Cheers," Bebe Neuwirth is an all-round performer, a dancer, singer and actor who has triumphed in a dazzling variety of...Tags: Movies, Broadway, Festive Event, Tom Waits, Jazz Music
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Avenue Q, The Drowsy Chaperone and other Kravis Center
Special Correspondent for South Florida Sun-SentinelVince Gill or Barbara Cook, Carmen or Avenue Q, Itzhak Perlman or a rock symphony derived from Led Zeppelin tunes. If you can't find something to quicken your pulse in the upcoming season at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, then you're not...Tags: Tickets, Television, American Idol, Natalie Cole, Itzhak Perlman
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Barbara Cook at Ravinia: How did she sound?
Critic Howard Reich reviews the celebrated Broadway and cabaret vocalist's performance at Ravinia's Martinis at the Martin Theatre. PAGE 3 -
Soprano's experience shines through at Ravinia
Chicago Tribune criticMost voices show their age when their owners turn 80. Not so the remarkably pliant instrument of Barbara Cook. Tender, supple and nearly unerring of pitch, Cook's lyric soprano seems to scoff at the passage of decades. Granted, no one who crowded into...Tags: Music, Kurt Weill, Ravinia Festival, Jazz Music, Ray Charles
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Tower of Babel, other big thoughts at humanities fest
Chicago Tribune reporterGrand notions, from the Tower of Babel to the Burnham Plan to transhumanism, are to be explored at this fall's Chicago Humanities Festival, with help from scheduled presenters such as writer Gore Vidal, artist Robert Irwin, historians David Kennedy and...Tags: Gore Vidal, Chicago Humanities Festival, Festive Event, Human Rights, Northwestern University
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Summer Classical Listings
AMHERST EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL July 8 — Ciaramella. Music for Renaissance winds and voices by Heinrich Isaac, Heinrich Finck, Guillaume Dufay and others. July 10 — Amherst Baroque Academy Soloists. "Virtuosic Music of Germany." Performers are...Tags: Ceremonies, Chen Yi, Renee Fleming, Indiana Jones, John Williams
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This July 4th weekend, celebrate your right to free jazz
Chicago Tribune criticThe Independence Day weekend may be synonymous with American music, but in Chicago that doesn't necessarily mean marches by John Philip Sousa (glorious though they are). Free jazz, hard-core bebop, American popular song—that's how Chicago marks the...Tags: Broadway, Green Mill, Charlie Parker, Ravinia Festival, Country Music
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What the Critics Say
Barbara Cook: Love is Good for Anything That Ails You This marks no less than Ms. Cook's 27th engagement at the Carlyle. Her newest show shuns her celebrated program of Sondheim ballads for a wide selection of love songs. This allows her to breathe life...Tags: Theater
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Ravinia song series to feature 3 legends
Three noted performers of classic American popular song will headline next year's Martinis at the Martin cabaret series, at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park. Betty Buckley, who leans toward a melodramatic performance style, will perform June 23....Tags: Betty Buckley, Music, Music Theater, Ravinia Festival, Popular Music
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Pop calendar
South Florida Sun-SentinelOCTOBER Today -- Velvet Revolver, Alice in Chains, Sparta, 7 p.m. SoundAd. Today -- Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, The Audition, We The Kings, 7:30 p.m. Revo. Today -- Patti LuPone, 8 p.m. Carnival. Today -- Yellowjackets, 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Sandoval....Tags: Bonnie Raitt, Richard Hayman, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dancing, Tourism and Leisure
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Fall Arts Preview: Pop music calendar
Critic's Picks
Bob Dylan (Nov. 13 at Nassau Coliseum, Nov. 16 at Continental Airlines Arena). Dylan's Never Ending Tour gets an injection of new material this fall as more of Dylan's impressive new "Modern Times" (Columbia) album comes into his set of...Tags: Marlene Dietrich, Long Island University, Ceremonies, Billie Holiday, Dancing
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