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Celebrations
Clark-Bisca Danielle Clark and Rick Bisca were married May 25 at East Wind in Wading River, with a reception following. She is a cardiac surgery nurse practitioner for North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and is the daughter of John and Carol...Tags: Philosophy, Classical Music, New York University, Stony Brook University, C.W. Post Campus
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Kot in the act: Shows you can't miss
1 Bajofondo: Gustavo Santaolalla is one of the architects of the rock-en-espanol movement with his production work for Cafe Tacuba, Molotov, Juanes and Julieta Venegas, among others. Bajofondo is his pet project, though, a collective of Argentine and...Tags: Eric Clapton, Music, Kanye West, Ravinia Festival, Buddy Guy
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CSO has 'Close Encounter' of its own with music royalty
Special to the Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Symphony Orchestra doesn't often assume the mantle of a pops band, but it also doesn't thumb its nose in any obvious way when duty calls. The presence of superstars John Williams and Yo-Yo Ma this week at Orchestra Hall lent a potent cachet to...Tags: Steven Spielberg, Popular Music, Music, Music Industry, John Williams
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Newsom enchants with CSO
Special to the Chicago TribuneThroughout its 117-year history, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has performed with artists whose musical backgrounds stem from myriad disciplines. Yet Friday's concert at Symphony Center with harpist-vocalist Joanna Newsom likely marked the first time the...Tags: Music, California
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Harp goddess Newsom joins forces with CSO
Chicago Tribune reporterIndie rock doesn't pair easily with orchestration. It usually lacks the sophisticated polish George Martin gave the Beatles or the bombast of self-serious hard rockers such as Metallica or Queensryche that lends itself too easily to the inevitable...Tags: Music, Brian Wilson, New York, Jim O'Rourke
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CSO delivers high-octane 'Don Giovanni'
Special to the Chicago TribuneThe organizers of Friday's Chicago Symphony Orchestra semi-staged performance of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" must have felt like auto mechanics squeezing a turbo-charged V8 into a Mini Cooper. The venue was the intimate Martin Theater at Ravinia, but the...Tags: Samuel Ramey, Music, Classical Music
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Deaths elsewhere
DONALD ERB, 81 Electronic composer Donald Erb, a composer with a strong interest in electronic music who was prominent on the avant-garde scene of the 1960s and 1970s, died last week at his home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. His death Tuesday came...Tags: Ohio, Computing and Information Technology, Music, Classical Music, Death and Dying
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Young violin prodigy later played with pros
Chicago Tribune reporterMarcia Lindsey Stevens, hailed as a prodigy for her childhood prowess with a violin, played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 10 and went on to hold a chair with the Grant Park and Lyric Opera Orchestras. Mrs. Stevens, 81, died of...Tags: Grant Park, Music, Classical Music, Heart Disease, Diseases
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Things to do on the cheap
Special to the Chicago TribuneSo your wallet is a little slimmer this summer. You're taking that staycation out of caution or necessity. Either way, sitting in the back yard with your feet in a kiddie pool or watching traffic from your balcony won't cut it. Whether you're looking...Tags: August, Grant Park, Music, Classical Music, George Clooney
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Conlon, CSO go intimate with Mozart at Ravinia
Chicago Tribune criticavinia has such a rich operatic history that you can hardly blame James Conlon for wanting to explore new means of using the festival's facilities to present opera in a theatrically viable way. Thursday night the music director led a reduced...Tags: Classical Music, Michael York, Music Industry, Theater, Music Theater
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma (right) will join celebrated film composer/conductor John Williams and the CSO for two special performances of Williams' movie and ceremonial music. The program features a suite for cello and orchestra drawn from Williams' score to the...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Television, Music, Woody Allen, Javier Bardem
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Music guide
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. CRITICS' PICKS 5 Browns: The young pianists all hail from the same family, they are all super-talented and their 50 fingers bring the sounds of five grand pianos alive in a way that...Tags: Grant Park, Music, Classical Music, Olivier Messiaen, Django Reinhardt
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