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50 Ways to Improve Your Life: Listen to Kind of Blue
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All About Jazz
Listen to Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
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Philadelphia Orchestra Cancels 2009 European Festivals
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All About Jazz
The “Philly Sound" (Of Silence): Philadelphia Orchestra Cancels 2009 European Festivals Tour Due To Lack Of Sponsors & Weak Dollar.
The ghost of Eugene Ormandy is very, very angry:
Unable to find sponsorship, the Philadelphia Orchestra has canceled its 2009 European festivals tour.
Such a cancellation is highly unusual, and this one is doubly painful. The concerts in Lucerne, Paris, at the London Proms and the Edinburgh Festival starting in August would have brought the orchestra incalculable artistic credibility with ...
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Philadelphia Orchestra Cuts Staff 20 Percent
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Michael Ricci
The sour notes of job losses are being heard at the Philadelphia Orchestra.
The orchestra let 12 staff members go Wednesday. Six positions will go unfilled, reducing administrative staff 20 percent.
The job cuts save about $900,000 a year, only a start on filling a more-than-$2 million potential deficit.
An orchestra endowment drive recently raised $130 million. But executive director Frank Slattery Jr. says market conditions have shrunk the nest egg by more than 30 percent.
The orchestra is conducting ...
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Baltimore Opera Pursuing Chapter 7, Dissolution
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All About Jazz
The Baltimore Opera Company's board of trustees has voted to seek Chapter 7 liquidation and sell off the 58-year-old company's assets.
General Manager M. Kevin Wixted says the company didn't have enough money to do more than struggle month to month. He said the company would never get ahead and could never raise enough money to have one season of opera.
The board took the vote on Thursday. Now the company is going to sell its costumes, equipment, warehouse and ...
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Morse Theatre Operators, Owners Strike Deal to Remain Open
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All About Jazz
The music may keep playing at the Morse Theatre.
An agreement in principle has been struck between the firm that has operated the refurbished Morse since October and the owners of the building.
The two parties fell into a dispute last month over operation of the facility, which opened in October to critical acclaim, after a multimillion-dollar restoration. The theater's operators— Rogers Park Entertainment Ventures Inc.—said last month that the theater might be shuttered.
Instead, 86th Ohio LLC—a corporation based ...
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Defense Rests in Phil Spector Murder Retrial
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All About Jazz
Phil Spector's defense attorney rested his case Thursday in the music producer's murder retrial involving the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler advised Spector of his right to testify, but he chose not to take the stand in his own defense. Attorney Doron Weinberg concluded with testimony from forensic psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, an expert in memory and witness testimony. Her opinions were presented to cast doubt on the prosecution's star witness, a chauffeur who ...
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Message in a Bottle: Sting's Vineyard to Sell 'Rock Star Wine'
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All About Jazz
The rock star Sting – whose best known songs include Message in a Bottle – is to produce 30,000 bottles of Chianti a year from his 300-hectare estate in Tuscany.
The singer, 57, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, made the announcement at a public meeting called at Figline Valdarno, south of Florence, to “defend Tuscan agriculture and bio-diversity". “Since January I have been round the world one and a half times," he told the meeting. “When I get back ...
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The Playboy Sells His Other Mansion
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Michael Ricci
Hugh Hefner's home next to Playboy mansion for sale for $27,995,000 The two-story, 7,300-square-foot English Manor-style home was built in 1929 and bought by the Hefners in 1998.
OK, no more proverbial pressing your nose up against the gates hoping to catch a glimpse of what goes on at the Playboy mansion. Now, you can live right next door and spy much more effectively from the comforts of your own home.
Hugh Hefner and wife Kimberley have listed their personal ...
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