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- Mark Padmore's Schubert recital: grand as well as poignant - Daily Telegraph
For the first of his three all-Schubert recitals at the Wigmore Hall, tenor Mark Padmore gave us the first of the composer's great song-cycles, Die Schöne Müllerin ("The Beautiful Miller-girl"). Idealistic longing: Mark Padmore Underneath the ...
- News Release: Poet Abu Zafar Obaidullah award '08 announces - New Nation
Poet Abu Zafar Obaidullah award 2008 has been announced on June 18, says a press release. Sixteen nationally renowned persons have been selected for the award. They are: Prof Muzaffer Ahmed, Chairman of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) in ...
- Greek court considers Lesbos vs lesbians case - Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - A Greek court is considering a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban use of the word lesbian as a term to describe gay women, a court official said on Wednesday. Three Lesbos residents brought the case ...
- A scene from "WALL-E." - Salon
June 27, 2008 | The new Pixar feature "WALL-E" is an environmental cautionary tale, as well as a story of budding love between two robots. And for its first half-hour or so, it's possibly the most melancholy cartoon ever made: Even the color palette ...
- Baseball music project visits Appleton - Lawrentian (subscription)
Baseball music project visits AppletonLawrentian (subscription), WI - 7 hours agoThe nine movements in the composition are based on nine examples of baseball poetry and prose from an enormous collection compiled for Sturm by journalist ...
- Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, and Solano County Writers and Poets Gather. - Listen & Be Heard
Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, and Solano County Writers and Poets Gather.Listen & Be Heard, CA - 1 hour agoDon Hagelberg, who created, produced and hosted the 1970’s, weekly, two-hour radio program, “Live Poets,†will read the poems, “Black Hole†as well as ...
- London poet gains Parliamentary recognition - Londoner
London poet gains Parliamentary recognitionLondoner, Canada - 1 hour ago“When he was here reading for Poetry London last autumn he asked me to participate and send him a poem. The maximum number of lines was 90 and Crossing the ...
- Freaky, flippant Friday - Register-Guard
After suggesting that the county government begin building a 32-hour work force, many people told me they’d gladly trade less pay for perpetual three-day weekends. I didn’t ask if any of them already work for the county. Whatever your opinion ...
- Poetry about absence reflects mature growth (The Kansas City Star)
Poems in Light Subtracts Itself, a new book by Maryfrances Wagner, gleam with the patina of experience and glow with a melancholy light.
- The Funky Music Of The Doors - Melodika.net
The Funky Music Of The DoorsMelodika.net, Bulgaria - 10 hours agoHe was not only a singer and a song writer; he was also the author of a few poetry books and a film director. It was unfortunate that such a talented ...
- Seniors enjoy day at barrier-free camp (The Jackson Citizen Patriot)
Imagine a sky so clear, so exceedingly blue, it could inspire poetry.
- Broken: By Karin Fossum (Independent)
Ever since the novel began, authors have been in intermittent dispute with their characters. Karin Fossum is a Norwegian writer of fiction, poetry and short stories. A great player with genre, she opens this novel with a midnight encounter between the author and the main character. Alvar Eide appears in Fossum's bedroom, disrupts her sleep, and ousts her intended subject by revealing too much, ...
- What Reality TV Says About Our World - Gawker
GawkerWhat Reality TV Says About Our WorldGawker, NY - 3 hours agoThe Prince of Poets. Hosted in the United Arab Emirates, this literary spin on American Idol had 4000 poets apply to read their work, improvise verse, ...
- Showers failed to dampen music day fun - East Anglian Daily Times
CROWDS turned out in force yesterday despite the occasional shower for the annual Ipswich Music Day. Held in Ipswich's Christchurch Park, bands from across the county took to the event's stages and performing a variety of music. And from reggae to ...
- Community news: VT English professors win national awards (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
Bob Hicok (top) and Paul Sorrentino (bottom), faculty members in the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, were both awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships. Hicok has also garnered the 2008 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry.
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