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...mail, Stona lists the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Opera Boston, and the Bank of America Celebrity Series as groups that buy air time for advertisement. Although businesses like Massive Records also buy air time, Siegfried is quick to assert that “everyone at the station knows that classical music is the reason people have a budget...

Author: By Anna F. Bonnell-freidin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radio Free Harvard | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

What this means is that depending on what time you tune in, you might catch a song by “Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno,” or alternatively, Zemlinsky’s “Symphonic Songs” played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Come Sunday, you can tune in to hear Reverend Gomes preaching to the fold in Memorial Church; “Crimson Sportstalk” comes on a half-hour later...

Author: By Anna F. Bonnell-freidin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radio Free Harvard | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

Most of the hot Broadway shows now offer an unspecified number of unsold house seats (those prime orchestra seats reserved for VIPs like ... well, theater critics) for what would once have seemed exorbitant prices. The cost of seeing Ms. Roberts without straining your neck or bringing your telescope: $250. Make that $251.25, counting the $1.25 "facility fee," intended to help keep up a theater where the seats are still cramped, the ushers surly and you can't bring your drink inside the theater after intermission. And the scalpers used to be outside the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pretty Woman Acts Up | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...refusing to play his uke for whites-only audiences. However, although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to move the four-stringed dynamo toward mainstream recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plucked in Their Prime | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

...From humble beginnings in a room above a London pub, the Ukulele Orchestra is today a regular at British festivals such as Glastonbury and the Hay Festival of Literature. All consummate singers and strummers, they perform their own compositions, as well as covers of popular songs that emerge freshly minted: Ms. Dynamite's Dy-Na-Mi-Tee sounds less like rap and more like Prohibition-era honky-tonk, and Kate Bush's tremulous Wuthering Heights, sung stoically by orchestra leader George Hinchcliffe, is a strange brew indeed. Even better are the medleys, which might fuse up to seven songs, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plucked in Their Prime | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

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