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Bravo for Brubeck

Posted in Arts & Culture, Composers, Cultural Diplomacy, Jazz, Milestones, Musicians, Pianists, Politics, tagged , , , on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Nice to see Dave Brubeck get a well-deserved honor yesterday…the legendary jazzman came to Washington DC to honored with the Ben Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy – a sort of “lifetime achievement” award for Americans going abroad…and he plays a moving Chopinesque piece, inspired by a long-ago trip to Poland..

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Bill Buckner, Won’t You Please Come Home?

Posted in Milestones, baseball, tagged , , , on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Quoth the Elder: “The Red Sox understand that Greek Drama will be written by Geeks and Dons.”
Seems it took two World Series wins to chase all the ghosts rattling the Nation’s cage. Good for all concerned. PS. Sox won the game, too…Five-zip.

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Play in Subway, Win Pulitzer…

Posted in Arts & Culture, Classical Music, Composers, Culture, Literature, Milestones, Music Media, Musicians, Print Media, Recordings, Vocalists, tagged , , , , , , , on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Not quite one year to the day it was published, funnyman writer Gene Weingarten’s celebrated story about Joshua Bell busking in the Washington Metro wound up as one of six Pulitzer Prizes won by the Washington Post today – an impressive and near-record haul. Even though the little social experiment was in [...]

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Born on Jan. 6th

Posted in Authors, Celebrities, Composers, Milestones, Musicians, birthdays, tagged , , , , , on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So, out of morbid curiosity upon becoming a semi-centurion (and not, the dreaded AARP mailing hasn’t shown up yet!), I wondered what other music types were born on Twelfth Night: This is what I found, mostly thanks to the so-called “intelligence aggegator” NNBD.com:

Maurice Abravanel

Conductor
6-Jan-1903
22-Sept.-1993
Music Director, Utah Symphony 1947-1979

Syd Barrett
Singer, songwriter, guitarist

6-Jan-1946
7-Jul-2006
Pink [...]

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Resolved….

Posted in Milestones, Music Media, blogging, tagged , , , on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As day breaks on a New Year here in downtown D.C., a resolution is in order in This Here Space: Namely, to post a little more often! The ol’ RoeDeo blogpost track record hasn’t been too impressive lately…I’ve been far better at managing the posts for my various clients, [...]

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Avant Gershwin

Posted in Digital Media, Holidays, Jazz, Milestones, Music Media, Musicians, Radio, Vocalists, public radio, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

WASHINGTON – The reason I’m posting from downtown D.C. this morning has to do with the lady on the left — jazz vocalist Patti Austin, who helped to usher in the New Year with a dynamic all-Gershwin concert at the Kennedy Center last night. Patti’s two-set show, backed by a crackerjack octet [...]

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400 musicians, 1607 voices…and Bruuuuuuce!

Posted in Composers, Festivals, Milestones, Musicians, Pop Music, Rock'n'Roll, Singer-Songwriters, U.K., Virginia, public radio, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

UPDATE: 15 MAY 07: Fred Child has been on location from the Virginia Arts Festival, broadcasting Performance Today from WHRO in Norfolk, along with some select excerpts from the Festival.

The Queen may have gone home, but this is actually the big “America 400th” weekend in Virginia. The actual anniversary date of the Jamestown landing [...]

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