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It is an indication of the fractured state of the music industry that not only is Gang Gang Dance now identifiably a trendy New York band, it is also signifying its status in a very visible, of-the-moment way.
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The Verdehr Trio has become a perennial favorite at the Phillips Collection, where twice a year it presents new works -- which it has usually commissioned -- for its unusual combination of clarinet, piano and violin. The trio continued that tradition Sunday afternoon, dispatching a...(more)
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Exotic locales are natural daydreams on a cold, rainy day, and Inscape Chamber Orchestra encouraged such fantasies at Bethesda's Episcopal Church of the Redeemer on Sunday with a program of works by Maurice Ravel, Maurice Delage, Joseph Hallman and Paul Hindemith. In Ravel's "Soupir" ("Sigh"),...(more)
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At this point in its run, it's probably inevitable that "American Idol" would have to begin recycling its archetypes. David Cook and David Archuleta, the show's most recent winner and runner-up, respectively, have released self-titled discs within a week of each other, and both fit...(more)
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A few years from now, our children will ask us three vexing questions: "What is sex?" "Why do people die?" And "What's a Nickelback?" The last one may be the hardest to answer, with our landfills choked by abandoned copies of the Canadian rock troupe's...(more)
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If Sunday afternoon's performance of J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor by the Washington Chorus was any indication, choral music fans in this town may be in for surprises. The season-opening concert, at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, was Julian Wachner's first as the chorus's...(more)
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Everything that a song recital can achieve, in terms of musical revelation, vocal excellence and audience engagement, was exemplified at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Friday night when the Vocal Arts Society presented the New York Festival of Song's "Fugitives." A collaboration by festival...(more)
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Valery Gergiev's right hand inhabits a world of its own. Most conductors' hands work independently of each other, but the very fingers of Gergiev's right hand appear to be on separate tracks, pursuing thoughts and ideas within the music that are not necessarily even audible....(more)
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The government could learn a thing or two from AC/DC. The 35-year-old hard-rock band is a model of efficiency and consistency, and the thunderstruck audience members who paid around $100 a ticket for AC/DC's insanely loud Saturday show at Verizon Center didn't waste a cent...(more)
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“Things to Ruin,” by theater composer Joe Iconis, isn’t a political revue per se, but its 19 songs express a fed-up attitude in the final days of the Bush era.
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A new track from the Beatles? Paul McCartney hopes to unleash “Carnival of Light,” a 14-minute experimental Beatles track recorded in 1967 but never released.
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A folk fiddler, a salsa star and a bossa nova singer are among the headliners scheduled for the 2009 season at Town Hall, which will begin Jan. 23.
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