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Dancers spun and leaped with striking energy and elasticity, keeping time with avant-garde lighting in a stirring tribute Wednesday night by Britain’s Royal Ballet for Cuba’s 88-year-old grande dame of dance, Alicia Alonso.

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HAVANA (Reuters) – The Royal Ballet, making its first appearance in Cuba, was set to begin five days of performances on Tuesday that star dancer Carlos Acosta, described as the “event of a lifetime” for his native Cuba.

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COINCIDENCE, synchronicity, phases of the moon, or what’ New CDs generally arrive on my desk unobtrusively enough, demurely clad in Jiffy bags. Twice last week, however, they

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THE EASY ORCHESTRA ** BLACKFRIARS, GLASGOW

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CONCERTS IN TOWN NEW YORK GRAND OPERA The economy is sour, but somehow the conductor Vincent La Selva soldiers on with his hardy little company. His free, fully staged production of “Il Trovatore” comes to Central Park’s scruffy but dignified Naumburg Bandshell–which, like La Selva, survives against daunting odds . . .

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HAVANA (Reuters) – Britain and #39;s Royal Ballet has arrived in Havana for five days and #39; of sold-out performances in the company and #39;s first visit to Cuba.

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The Royal Ballet of London said it will perform in Havana on Tuesday for the first time in its 78-year-old history, featuring an appearance of its star Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta.

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Jorge Luis Prats, who left Cuba in 2004, will perform at the 2009 Caramoor International Music Festival in Katonah on Thursday.

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For my last choice I’m going to offer something that 99% of you will not have heard, because it seems not to have been recorded until recently. To have a new work by Gil emerge out of the ether is to be bestowed with a gift more valuable than gold. Here is one such magical gift.

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CLASSICAL.

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Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has become the latest star on the classical music scene after winning one of the world’s most prestigious awards, but the blind 20-year-old has no need for a score.

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Mercury Prize-winning band Elbow perform unique gigs with the prestigious Halle orchestra at the Manchester International Festival.

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Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has become the latest star on the classical music scene after winning one of the world’s most prestigious awards, but the blind 20-year-old has no need for a score.

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Eric Lewis, the hot American pianist who recently played for U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, swept Montreux fans off their feet with a hard-hitting “rock-jazz” instrumental set.

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Emily Molnar, a principal dancer with Ballet BC who is also an emerging choreographer, has been appointed interim artistic director of the financially troubled Vancouver ballet company.

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Some excerpts of comments Cai Jindong made regarding the 30th anniversary of Isaac Stern’s historic trip to China.

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Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Laura Dean and Mark Morris share their thoughts on the relationship between modern dance and ballet.

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A district near Beijing has become one of the world’s centres of violin production in just 20 years — an industry that is aiming to look upwards and inwards amid growing domestic demand.

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DRUM and bass don Danny Byrd brings his deck skills to Coventry’s Kasbah this autumn. The Bath-born producer established himself in the drum and bass scene at the turn of the millennium, signing a deal with the influential Hospital label.

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A group of the finest up and coming musicians in the Capital hailing from the Weekend Arts College advanced Jazz course – previous alumni include Julian Joseph, Jason Rubello and Mark Mondesir.

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On Saturday night, Nina Ananiashvili, the ballet diva and one of the world’s most beloved Odette-Odiles finally laid down her feathery headwrap in New York.

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SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA **** OLD FRUITMARKET, GLASGOW

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If you look up the word mridangam or mridanga in the Oxford English Dictionary the master percussionist R. Raghu’s name appears in the citations in a New York Times quote from 1968 – “Palghat Raghu on the mridanga and Alla Rakha on the tabla”. When it came to popularising Karnatic music’s defining double-headed barrel drum outside the subcontinent, Palghat R. Raghu was as significant as Alla …

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CONCERTS IN TOWN NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: “SUMMERTIME CLASSICS” Bramwell Tovey’s annual series with the Phil concentrates on what used to be called the “light classics” repertoire, offered in a more relaxed setting and framed by the conductor’s avuncular manner. “Born on the Fourth of July” features an exceptional piano soloist . . .

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Relations hit a sour note between two Westport youths yesterday, culminating in one hitting the other over the head with a violin and the armed offenders squad being called out.

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A pianist becomes the lover of a politically committed Chechen in this intelligent, affecting novel.

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Not even the Ramones turned up full-blast could drown out the sirens, car alarms, car horns, idling buses and trucks, traffic cop whistles and frenetic New Yorkers.

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Focusing on the decades Bach spent as Cantor of the Leipzig Thomasschule towards the end of his life, these choral pieces – including his last, “Vor deinem Thron tret ich hiermit”, dictated from his deathbed – are delivered with power and precision.

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Flutes dating back to the time modern humans began colonising Europe suggest music may have been influential in our evolution.

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Sonor Artist Danny Carey is one of the most visible and iconic drummers in the world. Danny’s technical ability and unique drumming style have distinguished him as a truly special artist and Sonor is happy to announce that the first shipments of the Danny Carey Signature Snare Drum are now available in select stores across the US.

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A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture.

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Stone Age humans may have ripped raw meat from the bone with their teeth but they also played music, according to a study reporting the discovery of a 35,000-year-old flute, the oldest instrument known.

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A flute made more than 35,000 years ago is found in Germany and scientists say it is the world’s oldest musical instrument.

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People have been making music for more than 35,000 years, judging by prehistoric bird-bone flutes excavated in southwest Germany.

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The officer whose true story is told in Roman Polanski’s film The Pianist joins Oskar Schindler in receiving posthumous medal A German army officer whose character was portrayed in Roman Polanski’s 2002 Oscar-winning film The Pianist has received a posthumous honour from Israel for saving the lives of Jews during the holocaust. Captain Wilhelm Hosenfeld, who was played by Thomas Kretchmann in …

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Spandau Ballet are to release an acoustic greatest hits album, according to reports.

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Tunis — The prestigious Vienna Opera Ball will give a unique performance at the El Jem open air Roman Theatre (see photo), the second largest and best kept Roman theatre in the world.

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Mr. Cullum pounded on his Yamaha one minute; the next he was jumping on top of it (a little shakily).

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OPERA NEW YORK CITY OPERA City Opera, out of sight and worryingly out of mind, makes a welcome return under the auspices of the River to River Festival. The company’s three “Opera for All” presentations are populist in appeal–that is, free–but diverse in offerings; all shows feature orchestral . . .

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For three decades the singer, pianist, songwriter, producer and arranger Eddie Bo played an important part in the rich New Orleans music scene, making records in a variety of genres. He wrote and first recorded “My Dearest Darling”, which became a Top 40 hit in the US for Etta James in 1960, and “I’m Wise”, which Little Richard turned into “Slippin’ And Slidin’’ in 1956. A prolific artist, Bo …

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Dancers as young as 14 went through gruelling competition stages knowing that a win could pirouette them to stardom.

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A violin valued at £5,000 is stolen from its case while its owner was performing at The Egg theatre in St John’s Place, Bath.

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Huambo — The children’s group dubbed “Orquestra Cintilante”, linked to the Congragational Evangelic Church of Calombringo ward, in Huambo city, plans to release their debut gospel music album.

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Former “American Idol” finalist Bo Bice has donated a clarinet to a Nashville instrument drive.

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Mark Webb top freestyle rider talks about the high and lows of BMX riding.

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