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Updated: November/23/2009
Michael Jackson wins 4 at AMAs; Swift top artist
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The King of Pop is still winning awards and setting records doing it. But while Michael Jackson won a record four posthumous awards at Sunday night's American Music Awards, he couldn't beat Taylor Swift for top honors. The 19-year-old country music star was named the year's favorite artist, giving Jackson his only loss of the night, and giving her five trophies in all.
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Updated: November/22/2009
Enduring charm of ‘Nutcracker'
In Key West, they perform it on a shipwreck set complete with palm trees and conch shells. In Los Angeles, they give it a Spanish flair in a stage hacienda. In D.C., George Washington and King George III play key roles. And in Orlando — naturally, Disneyworld's not far away — it's sparkled with fireworks.
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Updated: November/22/2009
Rosanne Cash makes dad proud
At 18, Rosanne Cash didn't fully appreciate the gift when her father, Johnny Cash, put pencil to legal pad on a summer afternoon in 1973 and jotted down his thoughts on "100 Essential Country Songs." Fresh out of high school, she'd left her mother's home to travel with dad on his bus, but knew nothing about her musical heritage.
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Updated: November/21/2009
TSO celebrates American classics
Practically on the eve of Thanksgiving, the Toledo Symphony and Principal Conductor Stefan Sanderling celebrated American music with an idiosyncratic program of turn-of-the-20th-century music that broke new ground for TSO programming. Charles Ives and George Gershwin — you don’t see those stereotype-busting classical composers juxtaposed on many programs.
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Updated: November/19/2009
Pianist warms up for Peristyle with concert at school
It’s Tuesday morning at McKinley Elementary, one of the vintage school buildings in the Toledo Public system. A banged up old grand piano (Vose & Sons), its lid at full stick, sits ready for use as visiting pianist Stewart Goodyear stands quietly just in front of the stage.
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Updated: November/19/2009
Musica Antigua de Toledo celebrates 30 years of music
Musica Antigua de Toledo, the early music consort, will celebrate its 30th anniversary this weekend with the first concert of its 2009-2010 season. Sounds from the North Countries, Early Music of the Netherlands and Germany, will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in St. Andrew’s Methodist Church, 3620 Heatherdowns.
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Updated: November/15/2009
Toledo Magazine: Play It, Toledo
From start to finish, it is quite possibly the ultimate performance art project: Pianos — not the fancy, grand variety, but pianos that were meant to be played a lot — are donated to an arts organization, placed in a public place to be painted, and then left there for anyone from the most accomplished musician to a curious child to come along and play.
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Updated: November/15/2009
Clarence Clemons rocks on with raw willpower
It’s a touching moment, increasingly familiar to fans watching the E Street Band make its entrance: As the audience howls in anticipation and the rest of the band stands at the ready, Bruce Springsteen gently and lovingly helps Clarence Clemons walk to his saxophone at the front of the stage.
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Updated: November/14/2009
Springsteen delivers a classic concert in Detroit on Friday
He might have gotten the state wrong when he said hello to Ohio on Friday night at the Palace of Auburn Hills, but Bruce Springsteen delivered a classic show with the E Street Band. Playing the "Born To Run" album in its entirety, Springsteen and the band played one of its best Motown shows in years and tossed in a cover of Bob Seger's "Ramblin, Gamblin' Man."
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Updated: November/14/2009
Rod Stewart realizes dream on 'Soulbook'
Rod Stewart grew up idolizing soul singers like Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, and Otis Redding. On his new album, "Soulbook," he gets a chance to pay tribute to his childhood idols in song - and even gets a chance to sing with one of them on the CD.
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Updated: November/12/2009
Perrysburg native moves on to 'Chicago'
The last time Lindsay Roginski was on tour with Chicago, she had a starring role. Now she's a member of the ensemble. The Perrysburg native considers it a step up. She played the lead on that national tour for a year, then headed off to do regional theater, earning her membership in Actors Equity at Casa Manana, a theater in Fort Worth, where she played Lola in Damn Yankees opposite Richard Kind.
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Updated: November/12/2009
UT play considers society's expectations
The University of Toledo theater season continues to explore playwriting styles with Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, which opens Friday.
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Updated: November/12/2009
Young conductor to lead symphony
"Younger conductors are not a novelty anymore," says Tito Munoz, who will make his local debut leading the Toledo Symphony in the Mozart and More II series concert Saturday in the Franciscan Center.
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Updated: November/12/2009
Award-winning guitarist, 16, to open concert series
Chamber Music Toledo will open its 2009-2010 Artist Series with a concert featuring 16-year-old guitarist Chaconne Klaverenga at 3 p.m. Nov. 22 in Maumee's First Presbyterian Church, 200 East Broadway. Also on the program will be the Passacaglia Quartet from the Toledo Symphony.
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Updated: November/12/2009
Olive, Wilson at Finn's
Former Greenhornes and Soledad Brothers member Brian Olive returns to Toledo on Friday night for a show at Mickey Finn's that will include Dooley Wilson on the bill.
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Updated: November/08/2009
New stars come out for CMA Awards
About five years ago, longtime Nashville publicist Jenny Bohler got a phone call from Scott Borchetta, who was the head of a newly formed label in town, Big Machine Records.
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Updated: November/08/2009
Streisand is mellow on 'Love is the Answer'
Yes, it's the ultimate sign of superstar fame when your last name can be deep-sixed. So it is that Streisand's latest - her first full-length set of new studio recordings in four years - bears only Barbra (above the title, of course).
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Updated: November/06/2009
Toledo Opera's 'Falstaff' a win
Inviting a critic to review a dress rehearsal is something only the most confident - or most foolhardy - artistic director would consider, especially for a season opener.
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Updated: November/05/2009
Tesla cooks on and off stage
Guitarist Frank Hannon and bassist Brian Wheat have been making loud music together for a long time. Their musical partnership began in their hometown of Sacramento years before they became two of the founding members of multiplatinum hard-rock band Tesla.
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Updated: November/05/2009
Rep, Players staging comedic thrillers
Area theaters are serving up variety this week. Comedy, mystery, drama, and music - sometimes in the same show - will be on stages in Toledo and the region.
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Updated: November/05/2009
Neko Case brings tour to B.G.
On the road to promote her latest album, "Middle Cyclone," Neko Case will perform Saturday at Bowling Green's Clazel Theater.
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Updated: November/05/2009
Choir observes All Souls Day
The Toledo Diocesan Choir will present an All Souls Day concert with music by Faure, Vaughan-Williams, Hogan, and others at 3 p.m. Nov. 15 in Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral, 2535 Collingwood Blvd. Paul Monachino, music director at the cathedral, will conduct a choir representing some of the diocesan’s many parishes.
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Updated: November/01/2009
Verdi shows his playful side with rollicking comedy 'Falstaff'
"Everything in the world is a jest . . . We make each other crazy, all of us. But he who laughs well has the last laugh." - Sir John Falstaff. Over the four years Giuseppe Verdi needed to craft Falstaff, his final - and, some experts say, most masterful - opera, the Italian composer called his main character "Big Belly."
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Updated: October/29/2009
Life is good for 'loser'
It's not just first-place winners who reap rewards. Good things happen to also-rans, too, such as Chris Daughtry, the fourth-place finisher on the fifth season of American Idol. The 29-year-old rocker from North Carolina lost out to Efraym Yamin (third), Katharine McPhee (runner-up), and Taylor Hicks (winner).
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Updated: October/29/2009
BGSU presents operas, concert, talk
Operas by Georg Phillip Telemann and Manuel de Falla, both inspired by Cervantes' novel, Don Quixote, will be presented at 8 p.m. Nov. 6 and 3 p.m. Nov. 8 in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center at Bowling Green State University.
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Updated: October/24/2009
Maestro, musician partner gracefully
Pianist and conductor Ignat Solzhenitsyn proved himself a stellar musical multitasker during Friday night's Classics II concert by the Toledo Symphony. Only two works were on the program, but the selection was inspired for this concert honoring major donors Fritz and Mary Wolfe.
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Updated: October/22/2009
Drama recalls horrors of Katrina
A drama inspired by Hurricane Katrina makes its regional debut next week at Ohio Northern University in Ada.
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Updated: October/18/2009
Lucas County Arena stage set for success as midsize concert venue
For area music fans weary of the long commute to Detroit, Cleveland, and Columbus for top-draw concerts, the sparkling new Lucas County Arena is supposed to be the venue they've dreamed about. Then Lynyrd Skynyrd canceled what was supposed to be the first music concert at the $105 million facility, and suddenly local music fans wondered if the new arena would be a savior or a sore spot.
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Updated: October/15/2009
30th New Music Festival offers performances, talks
Bowling Green State University will present its 30th annual New Music Festival from Oct. 22-24 in the Moore Musical Arts Center and other campus and town venues. Organized by the BGSU College of Musical Arts and its MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, the festival will bring live performances, lectures, seminars, and workshops to the public. Most events are free.
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Updated: October/14/2009
Beloved by fans, moe is much more than a jam band
NOTE: Moe's Thursday concert in Bowling Green at the Clazel Theater has been canceled. Bass player Rob Derhak's father died. Tickets can be refunded where they were purchased.
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