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NASHVILLE, Nov. 12 -- Meet the new country, same as the old country. The prevailing sounds and styles may change on Music Row, but there's at least one major constant in country music: George Strait, the genre's most popular modern traditionalist. Strait, 56, on Wednesday...(more)
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Gaetano Donizetti wrote 65 operas. The average operagoer might be able to name five or 10 of them. They are not performed often; some of them, hardly ever. They are creations of a specific place and time, written to show off star singers and please...(more)
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The hip-hop artist Nas says he was on tour in Sweden in the early hours of Election Day when a line from his recent song "Black President" started running through his mind: "What's the black prez thinking on election night?" Hopeful about the voting to...(more)
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A weekly playlist for the listener with a one-track mind. Beyonc: "Diva" Beyonc's upcoming release is divided into halves: A pop-and-ballad-heavy "good girl" side and a hip-hop-and-electronica-heavy "bad girl" side. As is frequently the case in life, the good girl side is perfectly nice, but...(more)
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On Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall, Valery Gergiev conducted the Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater in the first of four programs devoted to theatrical works of Prokofiev.
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It was a stretch to title Sunday's Washington Bach Consort program at the Harman Center "What's Opera Bach!" The composer called his cantata "Vereinigte Zwietracht der Wechselnden Saiten" a "dramma per musica." But nothing resembling dramatic action, conflict or character development would qualify it as...(more)
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THR33 RINGZ T-Pain R&B singer and producer T-Pain will go down in infamy as the clown prince of Auto-Tune, the voice processor that makes everyone who uses it sound like a squirrel, or Cher. T-Pain has used Auto-Tune on almost every hit he's ever had,...(more)
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One of the hallmarks of ArcoVoce Chamber Ensemble programs is a carefully thought- out structure. The group's concert at the Phillips Collection on Sunday featured music by American composers, all written within the last 25 years and determinedly mainstream. The influence of early-20th-century harmonic innovations...(more)
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Need evidence that Taylor Swift is a capital-P pop star? Forget her appearance on MTV's Video Music Awards and listen to how poised this Nashville sprite sounds wrapping her voice around the letter M. "Mmmm-mmmm," she hums over the intro of "Hey Stephen," a pop-country...(more)
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It was a time of ghosts in South Africa. Men and women who were heroes in the anti-apartheid movement were banned. No pictures anywhere of Nelson Mandela, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba. You could be jailed for the offense. Children had to imagine them from stories...(more)
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Wenge Musica BCBG, the acclaimed Congolese soukous band, brought its long, intricate songs, elaborate drumming and wall of vocals to the Fillmore New York on Saturday night.
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That the Yamaha grand needed retuning during the intermission of pianist Jeremy Denk's concert at the Barns of Wolf Trap on Friday gives just a hint of the dimensions of what had just happened on that stage and what was about to happen. Denk had...(more)
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