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Spoleto Festival USA offers largest program for 37th season

...The internationally known arts festival, founded by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, will open its 37th season Friday with the...spirits of two sisters condemned to wander the earth. The composer is Japanese, the director is Chinese, the lead singers are...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-18/spoleto-festival-usa-offers-l
Amen Corner: Covenant Concert Series

...saint of musicians and church music.QUOTE: "Sing Me to Heaven includes flower songs by Brahms, Britten and other famous composers, and features sacred selections in the second half," Lyn Patterson, the director of music and organist for Covenant...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/your-faith/2013-05-03/amen-corner-covenant-con
Pioneering jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck dies

HARTFORD, Conn. - Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such...clarinet. The group played Brubeck originals and standards by other composers, including some early experimentation in unusual time signatures...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/national/2012-12-05/pioneering-jazz-composer-a
Concert to feature variety of Jewish composers' works

...anniversary with a MasterWorks concert featuring works by Jewish composers. The concert will feature pieces by Mendelssohn, Milhaud...educational experience. He said that because many of the composers chosen wrote secular music, he was unaware of their connection...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/01/16/mus_401240.shtml
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Chorale will pay tribute to black composers

...Sunday. The concert, which will feature the works of black composers, offered the chorale both an interesting opportunity and...wanted pieces that showed the virtuosity of African-American composers," he said. "I want to present to the public a collection...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2002/02/22/app_334808.shtml
Applause | Augusta State University | Paine College
Frank Rogier

...London, Mr. Rogier was called by Rudolf Bing, Metropolitan Opera general manager asking him to audition for the British composer Benjamin Britten. Rogier was awarded a lead role in Benjamin Britten's Opera, The Rape of Lucretia. Mr. Rogier performed...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000164545788
Jazz group Snarky Puppy feeds off online audience

...Puppy in 2010."YouTube is our most valuable asset period," said Michael League, the award-winning bassist/guitarist/composer/arranger who conceived the jazz band, which fuses the sounds of jazz, R&B, funk, gospel and alternative rock into one...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-04-13/jazz-group-snarky-pup
Music by Turner: Expect to hear classics, new tunes from Alice in Chains

...Excuses.Staley's vocals were often shared by current guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell, who has always been the primary composer of the band's material. You can hear his vocals on hits such as Check My Brain, Your Decision and Lesson Learned.The...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-04-23/music-turner-expect-h
Annette Funicello dead at 70

...recalled in a TV interview ? and she might just as well have been speaking for her Mickey Mouse Club audience.Singer and composer Paul Anka, the teen idol who briefly dated Funicello when they were on the concert circuit in the late 1950s, said that like...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/national/2013-04-08/annette-funicello-dead-70
Charleston's Spoleto Festival celebrates birthday of composer Philip Glass

...Nigel Redden, who met the composer 40 years ago. "It's...festival was founded by a composer and we feel increasingly it's desirable to have composers here," Redden said...was founded in 1977 by composer Gian Carlo Menotti as...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-05-19/charlestons-spoleto-festival-celebr