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| Tunes: Classical violinist Pine incorporates the heavy stuff (Las Cruces Sun-News) EL PASO ? Rachel Barton Pine is on a mission. Maybe not a mission from God, as her fictional Windy City brethren the Blues Brothers were, but it's certainly one the classical music gods hope will convert non-fans. |
| Classical piano treat (Gulf Daily News) FANS of classical piano will be treated to a performance by UK pianist Anthony Williams next weekend. The concert will take place on January 16 at the St Christopher's Junior School hall in Saar and is the third event in the school's classical music concert series. |
| Greg Sandow on the future of classical music (Arts Journal) Here's a supplement to my last post, while I prepare the next installment in the series. I wrote a "where we stand" last year, in considerable detail. Here it is, needing just a bit of revision and amplification to be up to date. |
| Betty Freeman dies at 87; art philanthropist and photographer (Los Angeles Times) Freeman made more than 400 grants and commissions over the last four decades to help composers develop new works, pay for living expenses and subsidize performances and recordings. Betty Freeman, a fiercely independent philanthropist and photographer often described as a Medici for contemporary classical music, who supported a Who's Who of modern composers, including John Cage, Philip Glass, ... |
| Findings Turn Events In Early TB Infection On Their Head, May Lead To New Therapy (Science Daily) Masses of immune cells that form as a hallmark of tuberculosis have long been thought to be the body's way of trying to protect itself by literally walling off the bacteria. But a new study in the journal Cell offers evidence that the TB bacteria actually sends signals that encourage the growth of those organized granuloma structures, and for good reason. |
