Aaron Copland News
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Elliott Carter, the American composer whose long life and career produced a remarkable coda of creativity in his 90s, has died. He was 103.
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Samsung Electronics Co. aims to stop Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4S handset being sold in France and Italy on patent-infringement claims, escalating the dispute between the world’s two biggest makers of smartphones and tablets.
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Scene Last Night met a lot of people at a lot of parties in 2011. Here are some of the personalities that entertained, intrigued and taught us something about giving back.
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A 10-year-old blonde with braided hair sits cross-legged on her father’s orchestra podium as he towers over her, waving a baton.
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The Shard’s owners were so optimistic about rising rents in 2010 that they bought out Transport for London’s contract to rent about a third of the skyscraper. They have yet to find a new tenant for the 72-story tower’s offices.
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Two decades after his death, the great film composer Alex North has a hit on Broadway.
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It’s ironic that the composer Milton Babbitt , who died in a Princeton hospital yesterday at the age of 94, shared his surname with Sinclair Lewis’s archetypal emblem of American narrow-mindedness. For Milton Babbitt was everything George F. Babbitt was not.
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It’s 1962, and an unknown folk singer stands awkwardly in the Gaslight Cafe strumming his guitar. Some customers ignore him.
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I hate being coerced by movie scores. Why must sad scenes call for sorrowful strings? Do romantic interludes really require soaring orchestral throbs? Most of the time I prefer the minimalist Antonioni route: No music at all.
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Ted Shen , a New York investment banker turned Medici of experimental musicals, took a midday Delta Air Lines shuttle last week to Washington for the opening of “Sycamore Trees” at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia.
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