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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma named creative consultant to Chicago Symphony Orchestra
F.N. D'ALESSIO - December 15, 2009
CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Monday named famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma to the newly created post of creative consultant, beginning in January. Ma's three-year appointment was announced by CSO music director designate Riccardo Muti at an appearance at New York's Lincoln...
Kurt Cobain's daughter placed in guardianship with mother, sister of 'grunge' rocker
By Associated Press - December 15, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AP) The only daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love has been placed in a temporary guardianship, court records show. A Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner granted control over 17-year-old Frances Bean Cobain to Kurt Cobain's mother Wendy O'Connor and his sister...
Music Review: 'Cantors, Klezmorim and Crooners' a feast of early 20th century Yiddish music
JERRY SCHWARTZ - December 14, 2009
Various Artists, "Cantors, Klezmorim and Crooners 1905-1953: Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection" (JSP Records) Moishe Oysher! Is there another name as redolent of Jewish life of an age past? And yet, the man himself seventh-generation cantor, star of film and...
Music Review: Alicia Keys still doesn't make a classic CD with her fourth release
MESFIN FEKADU - December 14, 2009
Alicia Keys, "The Element of Freedom" (J Records) On Alicia Keys' previous CDs, the gifted singer-songwriter-pianist presented songs that were epic and impeccable moreso than her actual albums. Tunes like "Fallin'," ''If I Ain't Got You" and "Like You'll Never See Me Again" are...
Mexican soldiers find guns, cash _ and Latin Grammy winner _ in raid of cartel Christmas party
CATHERINE E. SHOICHET - December 15, 2009
TEPOZTLAN, Mexico (AP) When soldiers raided a drug cartel's Christmas party south of Mexico City, they found 16 automatic rifles, $280,000 in cash and a Latin Grammy winner. The presence of the Texas-based norteno singer Ramon Ayala at the gathering in a wealthy, gated-community and...
French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says she'd be satisfied if husband serves just 1 term
By Associated Press - December 14, 2009
PARIS (AP) French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says it's up to her husband to decide whether to run for a second term in office in 2012 but says "one term would satisfy me." In an interview that aired Sunday on TF1 television, Bruni-Sarkozy hailed her husband, President Nicolas...
Neil Diamond, Mary J. Blige, George Lopez join Obamas for Christmas benefit concert
NATASHA T. METZLER - December 14, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's capital got in the holiday spirit Sunday night when music legends Neil Diamond and Mary J. Blige performed for President Barack Obama at the annual "Christmas in Washington" concert. The festivities, hosted by comedian George Lopez, took place at the...
Reggae star Buju Banton set to appear at Miami bail hearing on federal cocaine charge
JENNIFER KAY - December 16, 2009
MIAMI (AP) Grammy-nominated Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton will fight a drug charge against him in Tampa instead of Miami. Banton waived his bail hearing Wednesday in Miami federal court. His case is being prosecuted in Tampa, where he will be transferred. U.S....
Johnny Hallyday's producer cancels last half of French rocker's tour following hospitalization
By Associated Press - December 16, 2009
PARIS (AP) The producers for French rocker Johnny Hallyday have canceled the final leg of a concert tour following his hospitalization. Hallyday, who is France's biggest rock star, was hospitalized last week in Los Angeles following complications from an operation performed on his...
AP's best rock albums of 2009 topped by Animal Collective, Wilco
JAKE COYLE - December 11, 2009
As a medium, the rock album is so under siege that even Radiohead made noise in 2009 about giving it up for downloadable singles and EPs. The album can't help but increasingly feel like an afterthought in a year where the big thing in rock seemed to be landing on the soundtrack of "New...
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