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- Alsop's first season ends with energy (Baltimore Sun)
Marin Alsop's inaugural season as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is ending pretty much the way it started, with a program that places a sizable contemporary American work alongside a blockbuster from the standard European canon. In this case, the former is Joan Tower's big and often bracing Concerto for Orchestra; the latter is Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
- All-star cast of artists, writers headed to Chautauqua (The Buffalo News)
Before you settle in to your beach reading list, get in touch with your inner writer at the Chautauqua Institution's weeklong celebration of wordsmiths talking about their craft.
- Leonard Cohen is our man - Toronto Sun
Leonard Cohen is our manToronto Sun, Canada - 1 hour agoWhile never a great singer, his deep, rumbling voice has only improved with age, in terms of his recital of words - a poetry reading of A Thousand Kisses ...
- Foo Fighters invite Youngstown prizefighter to gig - Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ben Watts EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOO: Dave Grohl "pretty much turns it up every night," says Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett, left, with Nate Mendel, Grohl and Taylor Hawkins. A: I haven't talked to him since the other day, but I'm sure he's fine ...
- Parting gifts for Martin's mate - BBC News
What's the power of poetry? As a parting gift, Martin McGuinness presented Ian Paisley with a couple of hand-written poems. Mr McGuinness wrote one of the poems himself One was a passage from Seamus Heaney's The Cure At Troy in the laureate's own ...
- Region briefs - 06/13 - Riverside Press Enterprise
Residents interested in the upcoming Perris Valley Line extension of local Metrolink service have a chance to speak at two public meetings Monday and Tuesday. The meetings, sponsored by the Riverside County Transportation Commission, will be from 6 ...
- Whither Arab criticism? (Al-Ahram Weekly)
Organised by the Supreme Council for Culture (SCC), the International Conference for Literary Criticism, a three-day event held recently in Cairo, was taken up by discussion of problems of more than narrowly academic interest, including the definition of the literary text, ambiguity in modern Arabic poetry, methods of teaching the canonical Arabic criticism of the Middle Ages and cultural ...
- Losing her home, finding her story - Chicago Sun-Times
Losing her home, finding her storyChicago Sun-Times, United States - 30 minutes agoI would recite really bad erotic poetry in between acts at local clubs. [Laughs.] I can't even remember any of the poems anymore. ...
- What rhymes with taxes and crime? - Times Union Blogs
 Every time I think my dinosaur brain has heard all possible government tripe, along comes more nonsense.  The Schenectady County Legislature last week created the position of poet laureate.  Rome is burning and these guys ponder official prose ...
- Rachel Taylor Brown’s Road to Success - ACED Magazine
Rachel Taylor Brown’s Road to SuccessACED Magazine, FL - 8 hours agoRachel correlates music with poetry, "I think good poetry opens that window into your mind. It feels like the top of your head lifting off, ...
- Kathy Sheppard - Greenville News
Kathy SheppardGreenville News, SC - 28 minutes agoThe girl who made a "D" in high school English enjoyed literature to an extent -- especially poetry -- but dyslexia severely limited her as a writer. ...
- Javed Akhtar mixes poetry with management - Thaindian.com
Javed Akhtar mixes poetry with managementThaindian.com, Thailand - 10 hours agoNew Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Though he was there to release a book on management, well-known Hindi film lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar gave in to the request of ...
- Fourth-graders study immigration - HometownAnnapolis.com
Their lesson concluded last week with a ''Many Hands'' celebration showcasing their artwork, stories, poems and essays on display in the school's gymnasium.
- GospelFest features music, poetry, kids' activities - North Bay Nugget
GospelFest 2008 is set for Saturday at the North Bay waterfront. The third annual concert, sponsored by CJTK 103.5 Christian Radio Radio and local churches, will run from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kiwanis bandshell and feature music that ranges from ...
- Humphrey paved way for modern Democratic Party - Toledo Blade
MINNEAPOLIS - If you have an eye for these things, you might have noticed that Sen. Barack Obama is going to deliver his acceptance speech in a football stadium Aug. 28. The last man to deliver an acceptance speech in a stadium was John F. Kennedy ...
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