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Review: Musical using Leo Tolstoy a messy thrill
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — What do you get when you take a 70-page melodrama at the center of "War and Peace" and turn it into a musical? Now layer dance music onto the traditional Russian folk music. Now put it in a tent. While you're at it, throw in a meal and strobe lights. What you get is the...
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Dylan inducted as honorary member of arts academy
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Chabon had long been mystified by that Bob Dylan lyric about "midnight's broken toe." The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, the keynote speaker Wednesday at the annual induction ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was explaining his undiminished...
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Boy band One Direction: World tour next year
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
LONDON (AP) -- Hit boy band One Direction has announced plans for an ambitious world tour in 2014. Plans call for the youthful chart-toppers to play major stadiums in Latin America, Britain and Ireland during the first leg of the mega-tour that begins in April. U.S. dates are expected to be...
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'Idol' to crown Harrison or Glover latest champion
DERRIK J. LANG
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- One is a little bit country. The other is a little bit R&B. Either country crooner Kree Harrison or vocal powerhouse Candice Glover will be revealed Thursday night as the 12th season champion of "American Idol." The winning finalist of the Fox singing competition will...
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Gizmo promises 'a solid groove' at D.C. performance
Marie Gullard
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Don't look for a gremlin when checking out the music of Gizmo at Bohemian Caverns. Instead, expect a 22-year-old bass guitarist from Philadelphia named Kenneth Rodgers, whose parents nicknamed him after a favorite movie, "Gremlins." The name may be an attention-grabber, but it is the music of...
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Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Thompson Square bring country to town
Nancy Dunham
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Yes, Luke Bryan really is as generous and down-to-earth as he seems. The Georgia-born Bryan, who tied Eric Church and Miranda Lambert with four nominations for the upcoming fan-voted CMT Music Awards, has been in the news lately lavishing praise on Thompson Square and Florida Georgia Line, the...
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The Band Perry plays Merriweather Post Pavilion with new country songs
Nancy Dunham
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
The Band Perry is definitely an unusual group of musicians. While the world is full of musical sibling groups past and present, many of which achieved international success -- the Andrew Sisters,the Jackson 5, the Osmond Brothers and beyond -- this trio seems to truly have amicable...
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Ute Lemper, chanteuse extraordinaire
Emily Cary
Published: Thu, May 16, 2013
Each time Ute Lemper commands the stage, she unleashes ghosts of the past. Her distinctive contralto voice resurrects an era long past as her poetic repertoire recounts tales of lost loves, survival and passionate dreams. Her concert, titled "Last Tango in Berlin," revisits the German cabaret...
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