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[Music: General]: Spotify ‘will launch in US by end of 2010′

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:27:29 +0000

Spotify has vehemently denied an American news report that its negotiations in the US have made no progress, saying it is “still on track to launch in 2010″.

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[Music: Classical]: Classical Music/Opera Listings

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:59:42 +0000

A guide to selected performances of classical music in New York and the region.

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[Music: General]: How do I re-install Spotify on a PC’

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:02:24 +0000

Have you lost Spotify’ It’s easy to download and re-install the application

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[Music: General]: Cambridge Folk Festival: the ones to watch

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:55:54 +0000

The Cambridge Folk festival kicks off at 6pm today. If you don’t know your Seasick Steve from your Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, check out our guide to the best acts due to perform at what has been described as “the big daddy” of folk fiestas.

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[Music: Classical]: Ballet shoes – for men’

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:34:13 +0000

Ballet shoes for boys are a flattering throwback to the dandy era, but you do need nerves of steel to carry them off, says Charlie Porter.

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[Music: Classical]: Charity steps up to make ballet dream come true

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:14:33 +0000

A TEENAGER who is the first Scot to win a place at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow has secured the funding to fulfil her dream.

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[Music: General]: One Show host postpones gigs

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:09:50 +0000

Comedian’s commitments to BBC 1’s The One Show leads to the rescheduling of two Inverness performances.

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[Music: General]: Elvis Presley memorabilia for sale

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:52:39 +0000

Elvis Presley’s white grand piano and his 1955 contract with RCA Records are going up for auction in Memphis next month, with the piano expected to fetch more than $US1 million.

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[Music: General]: Beatles, Presley Pianos, Duke’s Chimneypiece, Churchill’s Dentures on Sale

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:23:06 +0000

Elvis Presleys gleaming white Knabe grand piano, and the coffee-stained upright instrument played by the Beatles and Pink Floyd , are up for sale in separate auctions on either side of the Atlantic next month.

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[Music: Classical]: Classical music venues: Not for the faint-hearted

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:20:23 +0000

In the corridor outside door H, I was on the floor and a helpful usher was fetching the Royal Albert Hall medic. In the auditorium, the Prom from which I had extracted myself, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was in full swing. I feared the emphasis might yet fall on the word “die”.

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[Music: General]: The One Show host postpones gigs

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:19:21 +0000

Comedian Jason Manford’s commitments to BBC 1’s The One Show leads to the rescheduling of two Inverness performances.

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[Music: General]: Kings of Leon, David Bowie, Oasis and the Top 10 gigs cancelled for extraordinary reasons

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:47:04 +0000

Kings of Leon were forced to pull a gig mid-show last night after an aerial attack from pigeons. The US rockers walked off stage in St Louis after the band were continuously defecated on by pigeons nesting above the stage.

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[Music: Classical]: Jazz review: National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:17:19 +0000

National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland **** Tolbooth, Stirling

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[Music: General]: How gospel inspired Jones’ new album

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:47:17 +0000

The singer Tom Jones says his new album is inspired by the gospel music he sang as a child in Wales.

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[Music: General]: Elvis Presley Autopsy Tools Pulled From Chicago Auction, Authenticity Questioned

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:43:08 +0000

What’s Your Reaction’ MEMPHIS, Tenn. The authenticity of tools supposedly used in Elvis Presley’s autopsy and embalming is being questioned, and the items have been withdrawn from a Chicago auction.

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[Music: General]: Blink 182 Album Slated For 2011

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:53:50 +0000

A new album by reformed punk-pop heroes Blink 182 will surface next year according to their drummer Travis Barker . The sticksman said the band were currently in rehearsals for the bands upcoming European jaunt and would be entering the studio on their return.

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[Music: Classical]: Ballet film heads Venice festival

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:17:17 +0000

Psychological thriller Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, will open this year’s Venice film festival, organisers have said.

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[Music: Classical]: Classical review: WDR Symphony Orchestra

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:02:20 +0000

WDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA COLOGNE **** ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON

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[Music: Classical]: Classical Music/Opera Listings

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:44:40 +0000

A selected guide to classical music and opera performances in the New York area.

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[Music: General]: Beatles’ unseen Surrey past going up for auction

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:07:27 +0000

A BEATLES fan is set to auction off a series of photos she took of the Fab Four at their homes in Elmbridge during the band’s heyday.

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[Music: General]: Beatles piano up for sale

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:37:29 +0000

A coffee-stained piano used by the Beatles when they recorded Paperback Writer at London’s Abbey Road studios is expected to sell for more than 100,000 pounds ($172,774), an auction house has said.

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[Music: Classical]: Ground-breaking orchestra grows

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:34:21 +0000

A ground-breaking children’s orchestra in Stirling is set to expand to a full symphony orchestra by Christmas.

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[Music: General]: £8m price tag on Led Zeppelin star’s former home in Plumpton

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:07:56 +0000

PLUMPTON Place, a moated Elizabethan manor house that has been home to peers and rock stars, is up for sale – for an eye-watering £8m.

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[Music: Classical]: Goings on About Town: Classical Music

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:09:36 +0000

PageBreak — CONCERTS IN TOWN LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL: LA PORTA DELLA LEGGE Now that the mighty figure of Luciano Berio has receded into history, Salvatore Sciarrino, whose style reaches for a not dissimilar mixture of lyricism and complexity, is Italys most significant composer, and the international . . .

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[Music: General]: Album review: Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno – Dog With A Rope

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:19:37 +0000

Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno: Dog With A Rope **** Tru Thoughts, £10.99

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[Music: Classical]: Nicole Campoy-Leffler: American Ballet Theatre Returns To The Music Center With Sleeping Beauty

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:15:08 +0000

Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center welcomes the return of American Ballet Theatre (ABT), America’s National Ballet Company, led by Artistic Director…

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[Music: General]: Pop star Pink hurt in stunt horror

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:40:15 +0000

POP star Pink was rushed to hospital after a stunt went wrong during her latest show in Germany. The 30-year-old singer, who is famous for her acrobatic stage routines, fell out of a harness during an elaborate move at a show in Nuremberg as part of her Funhouse tour .

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[Music: Classical]: How do you move an orchestra’

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:32:20 +0000

What is involved in moving an entire orchestra from its rehearsal space to a performance venue’

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[Music: General]: Strokes Album Has Been A Labour Says Casablancas

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:53:49 +0000

Julian Casablancas has been updating Xfm on the progress of The Strokes new album. Backstage at last weekends T In The Park, the frontman was asked whether the New Yorkers new record had been a labour of love.

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[Music: General]: Spotify ‘growing healthily and on track for US launch’

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:13:53 +0000

Spotify is still on track to launch in the US this year, Daniel Ek has told the Telegraph.

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[Music: General]: Beatles fan’s scrapbook of photos taken at Fab Four’s houses goes up for auction

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:47:04 +0000

Beatles fan got photos of Fab Four by knocking on their doors.

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[Music: General]: Kylie claims UK number one album

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:53:54 +0000

Kylie Minogue tops the UK album chart for the fifth time with Aphrodite, while JLS score a third number one single.

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[Music: General]: Spotify ports its music streamer to Linux

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:54:57 +0000

Penguin rock Spotify is previewing a Linux version of its popular music-streaming service.

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[Music: General]: Led Zeppelin Almost Reformed Without Robert Plant

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:08:49 +0000

Jason Bonham , Led Zeppelin drummer and son of original sticksman John Bonham , has revealed that the band were very close to touring without Robert Plant . Following the bands triumphant show at the O2 Arena in 2007, and Plants refusal go out on the road, the trio wrote and rehearsed together for a year.

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[Music: Classical]: Pete hooking up with orchestra

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:03:09 +0000

Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures is to be recreated with a full orchestra and choir.

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[Music: General]: Malaria-hit Cole axes X Factor and festival gigs

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:06:11 +0000

CHERYL Cole has pulled out of next month’s V Festival and the boot camp stage of The X Factor due to her ongoing battle with malaria, a spokeswoman for the singer said las

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[Music: General]: Kylie claims UK number one album, 22 years after her first

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:09:59 +0000

Kylie Minogue tops the UK album chart for the fifth time with Aphrodite, while JLS score a third number one single.

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[Music: Classical]: Classical review: Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 23:06:11 +0000

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA **** STRATHPEFFER PAVILION

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[Music: General]: Behind the music: Will reducing the cost of gigs raise ticket sales’

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:04:34 +0000

Could the announcement that the world’s biggest promoters, Live Nation and Ticketmaster, are about to reduce the cost of tickets bring live music sales out of a slump’ Looking at the success of this year’s 40th anniversary of Glastonbury, one could easily assume that live music is going from strength to strength at the moment. Unfortunately, the world’s biggest festival appears to be an anomaly …

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[Music: Classical]: The E – F of Classical Music

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:53:58 +0000

Musical expert Scott Speck conducts us through this week’s classical musicians.

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[Music: General]: In pictures: Glastonbury Festival backstage photos

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:44:13 +0000

Shakira chats to Newsbeat’s entertainment reporter Natalie Jamieson at Glastonbury. Natalie’s been taking backstage pictures from the festival…

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[Music: General]: Ticket boss promises cheaper gigs

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:45:19 +0000

The world’s biggest concert promoter Live Nation and Ticketmaster say they’re “about to launch cheaper fees”, which could lower prices.

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[Music: General]: Maria Rodale: Kutztown Folk Festival Fever!

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:00:02 +0000

It calls itself the longest-running folklife festival in America, and I can believe it. I’ve been going to the Kutztown Folk Festival since I was…

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[Music: General]: Beatles label to sell downloads

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:34:02 +0000

The Beatles’ record label Apple is to release material for download for the first time – but the music of the Fab Four will not be included.

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[Music: General]: Gigs: Please, please, please let us get what we want

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:21:13 +0000

At his Hop Farm show last weekend, Bob Dylan played lots of the old favourites, but he as good as ignored his audience. There are several ways bands can please their audience. There is the inviting of a special guest (the highlight of Scissor Sisters’ Glastonbury set was when Kylie joined them, and a winning trick of London folk act Mumford and Sons is to bring on Laura Marling); they can take …

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[Music: Classical]: Herman Cornejo in Ballet Theaters Romeo and Juliet

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:08:38 +0000

American Ballet Theater presents Romeo and Juliet, its trusty MacMillan war horse, at the Metropolitan Opera House.

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[Music: Classical]: The Youth Orchestra of Bahia

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:29:38 +0000

The Youth Orchestra of Bahia performs this Wednesday 7 July as part of Festival Brazil come and see one of the most exciting young youth orchestras in the world perform a programme of music from across the Americas.

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[Music: Classical]: BALLET: Peter Pan At San Francisco’s Threesixty Theater

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:29:52 +0000

What’s Your Reaction’ Loading… What’s Your Reaction’

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[Music: General]: Album review: Kele Okereke, The Boxer

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:19:22 +0000

Kele: The Boxer Wichita, £10.99

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[Music: Classical]: Goings on About Town: Classical Music

Music in the News from ClassPress.Net — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:09:53 +0000

PageBreak — CONCERTS IN TOWN NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: SUMMERTIME CLASSICS July 6-7 at 7:30: This start-of-summer series, a throwback to the heyday of light classical fare, has been a going concern under the likable Canadian conductor Bramwell Tovey since 2004. The first of two . . .

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