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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:57:10 +0100

Music

Bring Out Your Dead

Nicholas Roberts for The New York Times

From left, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Warren Haynes of the Dead at the Gramercy Theater in Manhattan last month.
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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:02:41 +0100

John Williams
Williams at the Boston Symphony Hall after he conducted the Boston Pops, May 2006
Born	John Towner Williams February 8, 1932 (1932-02-08) (age 77) Floral Park, New York, United States
Other name(s)	Johnny Williams
Occupation	composer and conductor
Years active	1952—present

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an Americancomposer, conductor, and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scoresin Hollywoodhistory,He composed the theme for the inauguration of Barack Obama. He also served as the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestrafrom 1980 to 1993, and is now the orchestra's laureateconductor. Williams is a five-time winner of the Academy Award. He has also won 4 Golden Globes, 7 BAFTAwards and 21 Grammy Awards.^[1] With 46 Academy Award nominations, Williams is, together with composer Alfred Newman, the second most nominated individual after Walt Disney.^[2] He was inducted into the Hollywood BowlHall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honorsin 2004.
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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:55:38 +0100

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Monday and Tuesday) Valery Gergiev, the great Russian conducting machine and all-purpose musical dynamo, leads the London Symphony in an all-Prokofievseries with installments at Avery Fisher Hall this week and next (March 29 and 30). The Monday evening installment includes the Symphony No. 1 and the Symphony No. 6, as well as the Piano Concerto No. 2, with Vladimir Feltsmanas the soloist. On Tuesday Mr. Gergiev leads the Symphony No. 2 and Symphony No. 7, and is joined by Vadim Repin in the Violin Concerto No. 1. (On Tuesday at 6:45 p.m., there will be a preconcert lecture by the Prokofiev specialist Harlow Robinson at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse.) At 8 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 721-6500, lincolncenter.org; $35 to $90. (Kozinn)
Courtesy of the N.Y.Times

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:54:47 +0100

Composers and musicians
Gradually the internet is taking over as our main source of news, entertainment, and our next major shopping medium.This is painfully evident, with the closing and downsizing of major newspaper companies. The foreclosures and the actual closing of established store chains. The end of an era. How can we use the internet, and not exploit the losses of others, yet at the same time, take real advantage of the full potentiels of this great marketing tool, the internet? I await your comments:
Arthur