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Phuong Nguyen & Miho Sanou: accordion & piano con brio: a London-based former Vietnamese boatperson and his Japanese wife tell Kenneth Noble of
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My role model, as a piano teacher, was my mother, who died fifteen years ago at age 85. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth, I embarked ......(Continue Reading)Mary J. Blige's wedding album
IN the culmination of one of the entertainment world's most watched and most talked-about courtships, Mary J. Bilge, the "queen of hip-hop soul," finally ......(Continue Reading)Rolling along: three decades of Bruce Cockburn's music
Somewhere between pure pop music--music that succeeds or fails on the basis of its popularity--and genre music lies a kind of music that critic Robert ......(Continue Reading)Sound and fury: Peter Conrad wonders if a new Tempest will conjure music to match Shakespeare's poetry
Any new opera, volunteering to extend the tradition, risks comparison with the classics that precede it. In taking The Tempest as the subject for his ......(Continue Reading)
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