Tony Bennett News
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“We have to stop. I just pulled that note out of the blue,” said Audra McDonald on stage last night at Avery Fisher Hall. “I’m so proud of myself. Yay, Juilliard!”
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Hillary Clinton called Tony Bennett “the Henry Kissinger of music.”
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Bill and Hillary Clinton dined with industrialist Len Blavatnik and hedge-fund manager Richard Perry. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn left his seat with Anchorage Capital Group LLC’s Kevin Ulrich to visit at their table.
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The European Union must guarantee sugar supplies for the bloc’s refiners after quotas end because the cost of importing raw sweetener from preferential countries is at a 10-month high, according to Tate & Lyle Sugars.
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Florida’s largest teachers union and its national affiliate sued the state seeking to overturn a law that ties teacher salaries to job performance, measured in part by standardized test scores.
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San Francisco delivered a valentine to Tony Bennett, the 85-year-old singer who immortalized the city with his ballad about the place where he left his heart, in a City Hall ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of the tune’s recording.
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Sugar prices in the European Union, the world’s largest importer, are unlikely to fall for now because of import duties and rising prices from traditional suppliers, according to Tate & Lyle Sugars.
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Troy David Stratos, self-described movie producer and music impresario, was peeved.
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Amy Winehouse’s duet with Tony Bennett, “Body and Soul,” is to be released as a single and video on Sept. 14, which would have been her 28th birthday.
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Teachers unions remain the Goliath to the school reformers’ David, even in red states. That was the lesson from votes last week in Idaho and Indiana, where unions successfully took on or took out Republican school superintendents.
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