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		<title>Bravo for Brubeck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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..<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roedeo.wordpress.com&blog=2078955&post=203&subd=roedeo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Buckner, Won&#8217;t You Please Come Home?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quoth the Elder:  &#8220;The Red Sox understand that Greek Drama will be written by Geeks and Dons.&#8221;
Seems it took two World Series wins to chase all the ghosts rattling the Nation&#8217;s cage.   Good for all concerned.   PS.  Sox won the game, too&#8230;Five-zip.

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		<title>Montani Semper Liberi&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, &#8220;One Commie Waffle, hold the Parfait&#8230;&#8221;
In the Morning News from the Mountain State:

KFC employee accused of stealing 16 ice creams

By SHERREE GREBENSTEIN / Journal Staff Writer MARTINSBURG — West Virginia State Police arrested an Inwood man Sunday after he allegedly took about 16 parfaits from the freezer of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roedeo.wordpress.com&blog=2078955&post=198&subd=roedeo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Play in Subway, Win Pulitzer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Not quite one year to the day it was published, funnyman writer Gene Weingarten&#8217;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 &#8211; an impressive and near-record haul.   Even though the little social experiment was in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roedeo.wordpress.com&blog=2078955&post=193&subd=roedeo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/play-in-subway-win-pulitzer/</link>
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		<title>When Bad Names happen to Good Bands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Funny blog post today by Bob Boilen of All Song Considered about Bad Band Names&#8230;a perpetual source of amusement for musicheads.     What got Bob going was a band called The Dodos, whowere DOA until he heard them play at South by Southwest in Austin.
Of course, poorly-named bands have been around since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roedeo.wordpress.com&blog=2078955&post=199&subd=roedeo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Miscellaeneous Musings: the NY Phil, Howard Theatre, WYPR, No Depression, Pete Seeger&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any resemblance to Mike “I Was Just Thinking….” Barnicle is purely coincidental….

Kind of amazing to hear the wall-to-wall media coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea….startling and gratifying to hear snippets of the New World Symphony in the middle of network newscasts. Worth reading:  Anne Midgette’s column in the WaPo on this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roedeo.wordpress.com&blog=2078955&post=187&subd=roedeo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/miscellaeneous-musings-the-ny-phil-howard-theatre-wypr-no-depression-pete-seeger/</link>
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		<title>Academy Award Followup: Jian Wang = John Wayne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Sunday&#8217;s posting about my non-viewing of the Academy Awards (and judging by the low-ratings scorecard, I had plenty of company!),  once I got to the concert I realized/remembered three more factoids that made the whole music &#8211; movies link with Jian Wang even more even more apropos:
*It could be argured that Jian owes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roedeo.wordpress.com&blog=2078955&post=186&subd=roedeo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life imitates&#8230;.Video Games? The Guitar Zeroes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I am perhaps the only person in the blogoverse to look at this and think immediately of the shape-note singing tradition that was developed in America in the 19th century.    Back then, they used differently-shaped notes to teach people who couldn&#8217;t read music to sing; today, thanks to Guitar Hero, all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roedeo.wordpress.com&blog=2078955&post=175&subd=roedeo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J.S. &amp; The Oscars: That Old Bach Magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unlike last year, I won’t be in front of the boobtube tonight for Oscar night; instead I’ll be doing one of my Concert Previews at a  Washington Performing Arts Society &#8211; sponsored “house concert” featuring a terrific young Chinese cellist named Jian Wang, who’s in town to play various of the six solo cello [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roedeo.wordpress.com&blog=2078955&post=162&subd=roedeo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://roedeo.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/js-the-oscars-that-old-bach-magic/</link>
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		<title>Hockey Night in&#8230;..Symphony Hall?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking out at the snow and ice on a twenty-degree day, a story from yesterday’s Toronto Globe &#38; Mail to warm the cockles o’my ice-skating heart: news of a Hockey Symphony...Now, there have been a fair amount of baseball-themed symphonic pieces (including Robert Russell Bennett’s “Dodger Symphony,” with a cameo at the premiere by Red Barber himself), but this is the first I’ve heard of an ode to hockey in the concert hall. California native Nagano explained that it all came about as part of his ongoing effort to Get To Know His New Country:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roedeo.wordpress.com&blog=2078955&post=153&subd=roedeo&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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