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Carnegie Hall, one of the most famous concert venues for classical and popular music in the United States, is in Midtown Manhattan on Seventh Avenue at West 56th Street. It was built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890 and is renowned for its structural beauty, rich history and fine acoustics.
Carnegie Hall, one of the most famous concert venues for classical and popular music in the United States, is in Midtown Manhattan on Seventh Avenue at West 56th Street. It was built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890 and is renowned for its structural beauty, rich history and fine acoustics.
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Go Guide Calendar: October 9, 2008
THURSDAY OCT. 9 ART All About MartiniĀ : Martini glasses designed by Dawn DeLong. Complimentary snacks and drinks. 7 p.m. Amber Connection, 3136 Hamilton Blvd., Allentown. 610-351-6200. BOOKS & AUTHORS Author Discussion and Book Signing: Pulitzer...Tags: Verizon Communications, Dance, Dancing, Lafayette College, Penn's Peak
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3 classics by 3 divas
"Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall" (Sony). Recorded live in 1975, this landmark album marks the soprano's dramatic transition from Broadway baby to cabaret star. Dianne Reeves: "A Little Moonlight" (Blue Note). Without fuss or pretense, Reeves eases into...Tags: Barbara Cook, Sony Corp., Jerome Kern
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Classical Music - A Chamber Music Treat
October is going to be a good month for chamber music lovers, with the appearance of the Guarneri String Quartet at Lafayette College next week and the Chamber Music Society's presentation of Concertante in two weeks. As a result it might be possible...Tags: New York, Lafayette College, Culture, Music, Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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Local performing arts groups bring their unusual talents to the area.
Broadway legends and up-and-coming companies abound in what may be one of the most exciting and varied fall arts seasons to come along in a while. Here are five of my top picks chosen from artists who have never toured here before or are bringing us...Tags: Theater, Darius Milhaud, Culture, Music Theater, Virginia
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NYC PICKS: STAGE
Two soul-stirring performances. NIKKI BLONSKY WHAT Long Island's own Nikki Blonsky has her nightclub debut at the Regency Hotel for "Coming Home," which features songs from Broadway and the Great American Songbook and pop classics at the Loews Regency...Tags: New York, Long Island, Culture, Leonard Bernstein, Lincoln Center
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Linda Winer: The sad decline of Off-Broadway
linda.winer@newsday.comWhere's Off-Broadway? This is not a trick question, like the one about how to get to Carnegie Hall. You see, most theatergoers, after a few visits, know where to find what we know as Broadway - the nearly 40 playhouses that line and, more often, adjoin...Tags: Collective Contract, Horton Foote, Mamma Mia!, New York, Theater
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Eva Veneziano credits her 100 years to diet, exercise
christina.hernandez@newsday.comEva Veneziano will probably rise before dawn this morning - her 100th birthday - and spend a half-hour doing exercises before making herself a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice. A mother of three who cooked fresh vegetables for her family every...Tags: Sheepshead Bay, People, New Year's, Physical Fitness, Death and Dying
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Carnegie opens season with tribute to Bernstein
Associated Press WriterThey threw a birthday party for him, and it wasn't even his birthday. Carnegie Hall opened its 118th season with a celebration of Leonard Bernstein, the conductor, composer, musical Confucius and mentor who died 18 years ago at age 72. Wednesday...Tags: Caroline Kennedy, New York, Theater, Culture, Oscar de la Renta
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Warner Bros., Marco Polo get fall spotlight on PBS
verne.gay@newsday.comFor the most part, it's all quiet on the public TV front this fall. There are no huge multipart productions, or (necessarily) can't-miss draws that'll make viewers forget about commercial TV. Instead, there's a bounty of one-offs - many dance- and music-...Tags: Andrea Bocelli, Dancing, NBC, Dancing With the Stars, Television Industry
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'The Rest Is Noise, Listening to the Twentieth Century' by Alex Ross
Special to The Times[This Book Review originally ran in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 11, 2007] A unified, comprehensive history of 20th century music is the philosopher's stone of modern criticism: How to transmute such vast, maddening complexity into conceptual gold? It's...Tags: Fanny Brice, Adolf Hitler, Theater, John Cage, Culture
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New York's Carnegie Hall opens season with tribute to Leonard Bernstein
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) _ They threw a birthday party for him, and it wasn't even his birthday. Carnegie Hall opened its 118th season with a celebration of Leonard Bernstein, the conductor, composer, musical Confucius and mentor who died 18 years ago at age 72....Tags: Caroline Kennedy, New York, Theater, Culture, Oscar de la Renta
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Lambda Chorale changing minds, hearts
South Florida Sun-SentinelConducting 30 singers in front of a live audience is a thrill you just don't get from sitting behind a desk. But it's only one of the reasons artistic director Gary Keating gave for returning to lead the group he founded in 1991, the South Florida...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, New York, Music, Wilton Manors, Florida
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