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...sales are suffering - they dropped 5% in 2001 - classical music is feeling the pinch. It now accounts for under 6% of the total audio market. But fans remember a golden age. From the 1960s through the '80s, the major labels regularly recorded the central repertoire with top conductors and orchestras. Vinyl and tapes wore out, so people bought new performances since at that time reissues were less common. When new recording techniques like digital came along, consumers acquired their favorite works with better sound quality. But the durability of CDs - and the emergence of top-selling crossover artists like Andrea...
...utilizing not just dance but kazoos. The piece transitions into Suzanne Jenkins’ ’03 lyrical dance of two women who mirror each other’s movements perfectly as they glide across the stage to the sound of a live five- piece chamber orchestra. Aaron Tanaka ’04 and Natalya Davis’ ’04 hip-hop inspired dance is next. The music, provided by a bassline and Neal Ellingson’s human beatbox, appears to act as a puppeteer on the dancers, dancing as if completely controlled by the music...
...high and 190 ft. in girth, which "wraps itself around you with its huge, bare brown arms"; the troll-like red tingle in a forest in Western Australia that resembles something out of Tolkien; and the Bavarian "dancing lime," whose pruned and propped-up bottom branches can support an orchestra. "The message is subtle," he says. "We all love trees, but we shouldn't take them for granted...
Before she was debilitated by lymphedema, Colmes enjoyed frequent visits to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and performances of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, her daughter said...
...Virginia. David quickly found a comparable job at Teligent, and when that company went bankrupt just 10 months later, he signed on with Tyco. The hitch: he would have to resume a hectic flying schedule. So, when all three children were selected to join the prestigious American Youth Orchestra as violinists, David missed their concerts. He was also away for their basketball, soccer and volleyball games. And when he was home, he was so jet-lagged that he often fell asleep while watching movies with the family. Elly was worried about what kind of message he was sending...