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Crossing the divide

Music bridges two cultures, writes Liza Power.
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Regina Weinreich: Melanie Laurent Plays the Violin in The Concert

A high point of this summer's feel good movie opening this week is surely a superb Tchaikovsky concerto performed unrehearsed in Paris by a hilarious...
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Youths master classical melodies

Largest music education festival in the Pacific Northwest returns to Western
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Spring-Ford Reporter/The Valley ItemDatebook

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Mariachi fever catching at UNT camp

DRC/Barron Ludlum Daniel Cantu works with middle school and high school students attending the Mariachi Aguilitas Summer Camp 2010 at the University of North Texas on Thursday. The camp, in its third year, nearly doubled in size to 80 students this summer.Mariachi Sol de Mexico 's bandleader tuned his vihuela Wednesday and began demonstrating how dynamics are used in mariachi music. "See how I'm ...
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I wish I could understand Beethovans Eroica

My earliest memories about things musical are the Sinhala kavi my mother and grandmother sang to me, and later my sister. My mother sang verses from the Guttila Kaavya. She sang, I remember well, paaru kavi and gel kavi.
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Dance class helps Parkinson's patients use movement as a strategy

At a community center in Kirkland, an unusual dance class takes place: one for people with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers part of a small but growing number of such classes worldwide.
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Students seek musical knowledge at CODA Mountain

A child intent on attending the CODA Mountain Academy of Music plays for a woman waiting in line for her car to be washed at a fundraiser held earlier this summer. The music academy will be held next month.
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Calendar

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Students add a little string to their summer

SMYRNA Music teacher Allison Franklin gave bass guitarist Will Gray a piece of advice while rehearsing John Caponegro's piece "Swingin' Strings."
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