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Tuesday, 25 December 2001 18:00 |
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Variety is the order of the day on the local music scene. Two new releases by local bands are now available, and fans of electronic music and straight-ahead heavy metal should have a good time with both albums. Also, we finally caught up with a recent recording by a local singer that should please people who like soft ballads and light country.
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Tuesday, 04 December 2001 18:00 |
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It was a great idea by the Blackthorn Pub & Eatery. Host local bands on four consecutive Sundays in late summer, record their sets, compile the best performances on CD, and sell it as a benefit for two charities, Gilda’s Club of the Quad Cities and the Mississippi Valley Blues Society’s BlueSKool program.
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Tuesday, 04 December 2001 18:00 |
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Undoubtedly Dvorak’s Cello Concerto is the most famous piece of its type ever written. In fact, composers such as Brahms – upon hearing Dvorak’s piece – lamented that they hadn’t written a cello concerto themselves.
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Tuesday, 27 November 2001 18:00 |
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Zuill Bailey was a rambunctious child. The cello changed him.
Bailey’s first encounter with the cello was at a symphony concert as a young child. Running through the halls, he “smashed into a girl holding a cello,” breaking the instrument, he recalled. |
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Tuesday, 20 November 2001 18:00 |
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With a robust musical tradition to draw on, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra (QCSO) has released its first full-length CD, an assembly of movements and snippets drawn from recordings by Augustana’s WVIK public-radio station.
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