Idaho Mountain Express: Sun Valley tradition hits end – May 9, 2012
Wednesday, may 9, 2012 Sun Valley tradition hits end Leana Leach and Sun Valley Sunday Brunch synonymous no more By JENNIFER LIEBRUMExpress Staff Writer Leana Leach at her Elkhorn home giving a supportive shoulder to Tiger, who often sits beside students while they learn the piano. Courtesy photo Most every Sunday for the last 14 [...]
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4 people stabbed at Saw V screening [FilmDrunk] 9 Most Bizarre Crispin Glover Moments [ScreenJunkies] XXX: The Return of Cage coming in 2010 [ComingSoon] Universal eyeing American Pie 4? [/film] Universal developing Skyscraper disaster movie [ComingSoon] Empire got some new Star Trek images [Empire] <a href="http://filmonic.com/elijah-wood-to-star-in-film-described-as-speed-at-a-pianotag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://filmonic.com/elijah-wood-to-star-in-film-described-as-speed-at-a-pianoTue, 01 May 2012 22:09:18 GMT”>Linkage: Saw Bizzarre XXX American [...]
And the nominees will be…
Michael Riedel The great Jule Styne, composer of “Gypsy” and “Funny Girl,” lived by an ironclad rule: The day after one of your shows opens to bad reviews, sit down at the piano and start writing the next one. And whenever his colleagues were nursing their own critical wounds, he’d ring them up and shout: [...]
Cuban Musician Efrain Amador Piñero – Havana Times.org
By Helson Hernandez HAVANA TIMES, April 11 — Guitarist and lutist Efrain Amador Piñero, now 65, is credited with having the academic study of the island’s indigenous instruments, ones like the lute and tres, accepted into art schools in Cuba. “I consider it unfair when an instrument is separated from the genre that it represents,” [...]
NorthScape: the North Xtra Bulletin Board
April 12, 2012 12:01 am — Compiled by Ruby Ashby AUDITIONS Areawide — The North Star Kids, a performance troupe for elementary and middle school boys and girls, is currently scheduling auditions for the 2012-13 season. Auditions are open to boys in grades 2 to 7 and girls in grades 2 to 6. Auditions will [...]
A beginner's guide to African hip-hop
Hip-hop’s avant-garde is now in Africa. And, yes, the continent’s content runs deeper than Die Antwoord’s “I Fink U Freeky.” along with Spoek Mathambo, here are four to keep an eye on. Nneka The “Nigerian Lauryn Hill” offers up brassy dub reggae and melancholy boom-bap on her new Soul is Heavy, her second American album. [...]
A chance find in an old piano stool (From St Helens Star)
A chance find in an old piano stool 10:00am Sunday 11th March 2012 in News CALLING all our Star sleuths… can you help solve an old school mystery? Trevor Powell, editor of the Prescotian, wrote to your Star asking our readers to help him track down the descendents of two former pupils. the Prescotian is [...]
Free Lunch: 94 years and 88 keys add up to one grand lady
SALT LAKE CITY — her hands gnarled with arthritis but her eyes sparkling with a determination to play through the pain, Edith Reed settles in front of her baby grand piano and strikes into a melody as delicate as a sigh. The piece is Chopin’s Opus 28, one of her favorites in the nearly nine [...]
SwiftKey Launches SDK to Bring its Smart Keyboard to Any Device
We’re big fans of UK startup TouchType’s SwiftKey keyboard for Android, and now it’s launched an SDK to bring the same technology to any device. As remote a chance as it may seem, it may even come to iOS. The announcement, tying in with Mobile World Congress, makes the core language-engine technology that powers SwiftKey [...]