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Music review: Boston Symphony makes Disney Hall debut

2011-12-11 16:32:52

<![CDATA[Music review: Boston Symphony makes Disney Hall debut]]>

Grammy Hall of Fame announces 2012 recordings inductees

2011-11-21 16:35:30

<![CDATA[Grammy Hall of Fame announces 2012 recordings inductees]]>

Richard Whitcomb dies at 88; engineer's discoveries changed design of jets

2009-10-19 00:00:00

Richard Whitcomb, a mechanical engineer who changed the way we fly today with three design innovations that made airplanes fly farther and faster using less fuel, has died. He was 88. Whitcomb died of pneumonia Tuesday in Newport News, Va. His...

Pacific Symphony's American Composers Festival has scores to settle

2009-02-22 00:00:00

Carl St.Clair can clearly recall being in the third grade in his hometown of Yoakum, Texas, and being "marched down to the Grand Theater where we all got to see 'Ben-Hur.' I was totally captivated," he says. "The score was overwhelming to me." Fifty...

Polkas, jazz and Dixieland at Mass: Lord have mercy

2007-07-07 00:00:00

The sanctuary of St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church resounded with the peal of a Dixieland trumpet playing "When the Saints Go Marching In." But in their entry down the aisle, the jubilant choir switched to the Greek liturgy: Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison,...

Accordion: Not just for polkas anymore, say fans

2012-07-13 05:48:00

Blame it on Lawrence Welk. If you're unfamiliar with that name, members of the American Accordionists' Association will give you an extra-warm welcome to their festival in Baltimore this week. Accordionists in this country have long struggled with the...

Late NASA engineer thought like an "air molecule"

2011-12-27 07:40:00

It was inevitable that the late Richard T. Whitcomb join the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Neil Armstrong and other luminaries in the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Working at NASA Langley Research Center in the 1950s, Whitcomb redesigned the...

Shuttle: Boost or Bust for Langley?

2011-07-06 06:21:00

NASA’s space shuttle program gave the United States unmatched access to space, fostered a new era of international cooperation and led to pioneering research of the solar system. Determining its effect at Langley Research Center in Hampton is...

Grammy Hall 2012 inductees named

2011-11-22 01:05:13

LOS ANGELES - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s �I Have a Dream� speech, the Rolling Stones' �Exile on Main St.,� Bill Cosby's �I Started Out as a Child� comedy album and musicologist Harry Smith's widely influential �Anthology of American Folk Music�...

Classical review, Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts

2001-09-26 00:00:00

At Sunday's concert by Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, conductor Alan Heatherington opened with some eloquent remarks about the solace music can provide in these troubled times. The program that...

Classical review, Mikko Franck conducts the CSO at Symphony Center

2002-12-21 00:00:00

There would appear to be as many conductors of international caliber in Finland as there are, well, reindeer. Thursday night brought the Chicago Symphony Orchestra podium debut of the 23-year-old Mikko Franck. He wasted no time putting his stamp on the...

John von Rhein's top 10 classical albums of 2002

2002-12-13 00:00:00

++++++++++++++++++++ || Top 10 of 2002: - Greg Kot's rock picks - Howard Reich's jazz picks - John von Rhein's classical picks || ++++++++++++++++++++ Once again this year there was much gnashing of teeth throughout the music business about the...

"Urine in the elevators on the weekend, poor security, and fare machines are broken as well as some of the turnstiles are out of order sometimes," Rex Roy Harris Jr., wrote.

2011-08-15 10:23:15

Composer David Diamond, June 13 David Diamond, a distinguished American composer who wrote 11 symphonies and 10 string quartets, as well as ballets and film scores, died on June 13. He was 89.

2005-06-15 06:40:48