American Idol Live Tour Tickets

May 26, 2005

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We know you love the American Idols and here’s your chance to see the Top 10 American Idols live on stage. The American Idols Live tour is hitting the road again this summer and tickets go on sale this weekend. One of the hottest shows ever is back for another great tour and you won’t want to miss it. Come check out your favorite Idols live and in person.

American Idols Live Tickets


Boston Pops’ Baby Boomer Bash

April 19, 2005

Boston Pops Splash

Baby Boomer Bash
Boston Pops
July 1 and 2, 2005 8:00 PM
Symphony Hall
Boston, MA
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Liz Callaway, Special Guest

Whether you were born to be wild or born to be mild, raise your voice and sing out to the Boston Pops’ famously popular Baby Boomer Sing Along, which includes the songs “Your Mama Don’t Dance,” “It’s My Party”, “Blowin in the Wind,” “Satisfaction,” “Joy to the World,” “Y.M.C.A.” and more. Come together at the Boston Pops’ Baby boomer Bash!

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Remembrance: Kenneth Schermerhorn, Rigorous Conductor, Dies at 75

April 19, 2005

Kenneth Schermerhorn, a conductor who directed the Nashville Symphony since 1983 and was the music director of the American Ballet Theater and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for several years, died yesterday in Nashville. He was 75.

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By ALLAN KOZINN
New York Times, April 19, 2005

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Conducted by Kenneth Schermerhorn

Much has been written about Leonard Bernstein’s multifarious talents. He has been lionized for his abilities as concert pianist, conductor, composer, author and teacher. Others have argued that his diverse musical interests prevented him from reaching his full potential as a serious composer. It was his extraordinary versitility that enabled West Side Story to elevate musical theater to new heights. The ability to combine serious ballet music and classically constructed fugues with memorable popular melodies, jazzy, finger-snapping tunes, heart wrenching love songs and vaudevillian humor could only have come from one man, the true Renaissance musician of the 20th century.


Remembrance: Cafe Carlyle’s Bobby Short

April 10, 2005

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Bobby Short, the cherubic singer and pianist whose high-spirited but probing renditions of popular standards evoked the glamour and sophistication of Manhattan nightlife, died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He was 80, and had homes in Manhattan and southern France.

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By Enid Emy
New York Times, March 21, 2005