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Digital music services flunk college test
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Reuters - College campuses were once a prime spawning ground for new digital music services. |
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Mexican singer, actor Pablo Montero finishes rehab |
Mexican singer and actor Pablo Montero graduated from a drug rehabilitation program in Miami on Friday and said he plans to share his experiences with television audiences. |
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Opera Boston opens with 'Tancredi' |
Opera Boston will open its 2009-10 season on Oct. 23 in Cutler Majestic Theatre with a production of Rossini's rarely heard melodrama "Tancredi," with the noted Polish contralto Ewa Podles in the title role. Details of the company's offerings next season were announced today. |
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From M. Ward, a timeless feel |
Wednesday night at the Somerville Theatre, M. Ward received one of the highest compliments that can be paid to a musician in our chatty modern era: an attentive audience. |
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A gold mine of six cello suites |
At the age of 13, not long after he had begun playing the cello, Pablo Casals was browsing in a secondhand music store in Barcelona. On a dusty shelf, he noticed the scores of six suites for unaccompanied cello by J.S. Bach. The year was 1890, and these works were virtually unknown. None of Casals's teachers had so much as ... |
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Five easy voices |
Rockapella ear candy is even more delicious when you see a live performance by the a cappella vocalists. Over the years, the quintet has also visited many households as the TV voices behind commercials for Folgers Coffee, Taco Bell, and Budweiser, and the theme song for the PBS hit "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" They've come a long ... |
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Chris Tomlin leads nominees for Dove Awards |
Chris Tomlin is the lead nominee for gospel music's Dove Awards with seven nods. Among the awards he was nominated for include artist of the year, male vocalist of the year and song of the year for "Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)." |
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T.I. goes back to court -- to talk to teenagers |
A month from beginning a yearlong federal prison sentence, rapper T.I. was in court again Friday, but this time he wasn't in the hot seat. |
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NYC museum celebrates hip-hop, serves $1 burgers |
There's a new museum in New York City devoted to hip-hop -- and it serves cheap hamburgers. |
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ELO bass player Kelly Groucutt dead at 63 |
Kelly Groucutt, former bass player with 1970s rock hitmakers ELO, has died at age 63. |
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