Topic: Classical Music
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The top 11 promposals in 2013
It's prom season. What's your prom proposal/promposal going to be?What? Wait wait wait, hold on. You're telling me you didn't write an original song, choreograph a routine for it, and present it flash mob-style to your dream high school prom date? Well, listen up rookie, you've got a lot to learn. Promposals these days are elaborately produced mating rituals — think of Planet Earth's Birds of Paradise and mash it up with your favorite episode of Glee. Then upload it to YouTube because this isn't about your exuberant manifestation of true love, it's about that special someone. Don't they deserve Internet fame? Sometimes done well enough to gain national attention – I'm looking at you Kate Upton fan – sometimes too cringeworthy to view, here are 11 promposals you need to consider before planning your own.
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Top 10 places to buy a foreclosed home
Here are the Top 10 metropolitan areas to buy a foreclosed home, according to RealtyTrac:
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The Beloit College Mindset List for the class of 2016
Every year, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., releases its Mindset List to give a snapshot of how the incoming freshmen class views the world.
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For Paul McCartney's Birthday: The Top 40 McMoments
On former Beatle Paul McCartney's 70th birthday, here are 40 memorable moments from his musical life.
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10 stories from Frank Langella about his famous friends
In his new memoir Dropped Names, Frank Langella recalls meetings and friendships with bold-face names.
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Notes on a bridge
Composer Joseph Bertolozzi has recorded sounds from the Mid-Hudson Bridge to create a new kind of symphony.
06/16/2009 01:00 am -
Review: 'Tetro'
The fraught relationship between two brothers plays out in this Oedipal drama, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
06/12/2009 01:00 am -
After Iraq's civil war, lessons in civility
New academy gives free music and etiquette lessons to teens, in a bid to boost tolerance and promote peace.
04/28/2009 01:00 am -
After Iraq's civil war, lessons in civility
New music academy also gives free lessons in etiquette to teens, in a bid to boost tolerance, promote peace.
04/27/2009 01:00 am -
Alex and Me
A scientist, a bird, and an unexpected 30-year friendship.
02/28/2009 12:00 am -
Global News Blog Music piracy: A perfect topic for me, a musician moonlighting as a journalist
02/04/2009 12:00 am -
Never too late to learn
When her grandsons signed up for piano lessons, she longed to learn herself.
01/29/2009 12:00 am -
The Vote Yet another Inauguration controversy?
01/27/2009 12:00 am -
99 years of Elliott Carter's masterpieces in 5 days
Whether listening to an opera or a concerto, this composer inspires and intrigues.
01/26/2009 12:00 am -
The Vote Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman to join Milli Vanilli?
01/23/2009 12:00 am -
Rick Warren and Aretha Franklin on stage (get different reactions)
01/20/2009 12:00 am -
The Vote Today's official schedule
01/20/2009 12:00 am -
The Vote Aretha Franklin to perform at Obama inauguration
12/18/2008 12:00 am -
YouTube cyber-orchestra puts a new spin on traditional auditions
Website’s invitation to audition by video for its new online orchestra rewrites the finely tuned art of judging a musician’s talent.
12/18/2008 12:00 am -
Horizons YouTube spotlights classical musicians with 'Internet symphony'
12/02/2008 12:00 am -
I decide to attend the opera, with Raisinets and bonbons.
Live performances of the New York Metropolitan Opera are beamed into movie theaters across the country, offering audiences ways to experience high culture at low prices. But is it the same as live or is it just Memorex?
12/01/2008 12:00 am -
Opera reaches for new scale
Old art form is flourishing in US as new opera companies open and works are premiered.
11/14/2008 12:00 am -
A melodic conversation in Vietnam
Playing music together overcame the language barriers.
10/30/2008 01:00 am -
World’s largest working pipe organ is in ... Macy’s
Before there was Muzak, there was the Wanamaker. Newly restored, it restores the shopper’s mood.
10/15/2008 01:00 am -
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10/14/2008 01:00 am -
Los Angeles finds its heart
Downtown L.A.'s cultural corridor struggles to define its profile and its audience.
10/10/2008 01:00 am -
Sounding out character in movies
Movie sound design proves more art than science.
08/29/2008 01:00 am -
A musical artist who works in wood
A violinmaker in Boston creates beautiful instruments because he loves music.
07/07/2008 01:00 am -
A Chinese star's rare rise in Western opera
Hao Jiang Tian's hard upbringing in the Cultural Revolution helped him find his voice.
06/20/2008 01:00 am -
Bright Green From slideshow to opera
05/29/2008 01:00 am
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