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| By Chirine Lahoud | February 21, 2012 12:08 AM |
| Lebanon has one festival that is devoted exclusively to “classical music” –orchestral and chamber music (symphonies, oratorios, operas and such) and attendant solo work. |
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| By Donna Bryson | February 16, 2012 09:48 PM |
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The 60-year-old beloved South African musician shows up five days a week to sit behind a scarred desk in a bare-bones classroom.
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| By Nekesa Mumbi Moody | February 14, 2012 12:27 AM |
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Adele, who captured the world’s heart with an album about a broken romance, emerged as the top winner at Sunday’s Grammy Awards...
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| By David Bauder | February 13, 2012 02:08 AM |
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Whitney Houston’s downfall was so long and sad that, in an impatient public’s mind, it overshadowed her many accomplishments...
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Sotheby’s hopes ‘The Scream’ will fetch up to $80 million
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| Mike Collett-White | February 22, 2012 12:13 AM |
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Sotheby’s will offer the only privately owned version of Edvard Munch’s haunting work “The Scream” at an auction in NY on May 2, where it expects it to fetch more than $80 million.
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‘Descendants’ and ‘Midnight in Paris’ win 2 top Awards
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| Bob Tourtellotte | February 21, 2012 12:08 AM |
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U.S. film and television writers have given their top two movie awards to romance “Midnight in Paris” and drama “The Descendants” in the final Hollywood guild awards show,
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World celebrates Charles Dickens’ 200th anniversary
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| Mike Collett-White | February 08, 2012 12:08 AM |
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Prince Charles led Tuesday’s global celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of English literature’s most revered novelists.
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A call to arms to help Lebanon’s coast
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| Chirine Lahoud | February 08, 2012 12:07 AM |
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Mazen Jannoun’s “Watercolor, the Lebanese Coast” documents a four-year photographic journey he undertook along Lebanon’s coast from 2007-11.
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Italian chef’s 3 Michelin stars shine in Hong Kong
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| Cathy Yang | February 23, 2012 12:32 AM |
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Umberto Bombana’s distinctive flair for refined, regional Italian cuisine has taken him around the world and earned his Hong Kong restaurant three Michelin stars in 2011.
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Eclectic shows close London Fashion Week
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| Sylvia Hui | February 23, 2012 12:37 AM |
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London Fashion Week is winding down – but not before some of Britain’s brightest young designers showcased the inventiveness.
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An ode to Latin American music
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| By Chirine Lahoud | January 17, 2012 02:18 AM |
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Since its founding in 1994, each year from mid-February to mid-March the Al-Bustan Festival has offered a selection of chamber music...
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Afghan music academy seeks to ease pain of war
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| By Amie Ferris-Rotman, Sayed Hassib | January 14, 2012 01:01 AM |
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A cacophony ranging from Asian string instruments to the delicate cadences of classical piano pours out of a two-storey building in central Kabul.
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Music school sets different beat for Gaza’s children
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| By Sara Hussein | December 17, 2011 01:10 AM |
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A room in Gaza’s only music school fills with the sound of the qanun (sometimes termed the oriental zither), transporting listeners far from the impoverished territory.
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Fairouz moves crowds again
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| By Dana Khraiche | December 12, 2011 12:28 AM |
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Living in a society steeped in politics, the Lebanese often find it hard to agree on even the most basic of principles. But the Lebanese are nearly unanimous on their love for Fairouz.
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Occupy Wall Street plans benefit album for itself
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| By David Bauder | November 26, 2011 12:11 AM |
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Occupy Wall Street has a benefit album planned with Jackson Browne, Third Eye Blind, Crosby & Nash, Devo, Lucinda Williams and even some other drummers.
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U.S. military occupation leaves its legacy on Iraqi youth
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| By Bushra Juhi | November 25, 2011 12:15 AM |
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After more than eight years in Iraq, the departing American military’s legacy includes a fledgling democracy, bitter memories of war, and for the nation’s youth, rap music, tattoos and slang.
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Pianist showcases her local favorites
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| By Chirine Lahoud | November 17, 2011 01:39 AM |
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The Ukrainian pianist Tatiana Primak-Khoury has been living in Lebanon for almost 10 years. For Saturday’s performance, she will be playing works by Lebanese composers, because for her “it is important to present compositions written by local composers.”
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Palestinian teenagers rap out angry politics in Nazareth
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| By Zab Mustefa | November 02, 2011 12:59 AM |
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Mai and Amane, Palestinian teenagers living in Nazareth, are happy to leave talk about boys and make-up to their peers. They have a political message and they’re telling it through rap music.
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Wassouf in stable condition following stroke
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| By Olivia Alabaster | October 21, 2011 01:36 AM |
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Syrian singer George Wassouf is in a stable condition after suffering a small stroke Wednesday evening, his son Wadih told The Daily Star Thursday.
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