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- Symphony composers embark on voyage of discovery - Daily Gazette
Albany Symphony Orchestra conductor David Alan Miller wanted the 2008-2009 season, which opens today, to reflect something of the Henry Hudson Quadricentennial. “I hope it gives a sense of exploration and the sea,” Miller said. So his assignment ...
- Step right up to McCain's three-ring circus (Portsmouth Herald)
One of the strangest excuses I've ever seen from a politician came from Republican presidential hopeful John McCain who, much to his credit, laments the drop in rhetorical quality of the presidential campaign. According to McCain's diagnosis, the main...
- Spend ÂŁ20m on Gaelic TV? It's Greek to me - Times Online
Spend ÂŁ20m on Gaelic TV? It's Greek to meTimes Online, UK - 4 hours agoLose Gaelic and we lose some of the most beautiful poetry and haunting ballads ever written, admittedly with a somewhat limited subject matter, but haunting ...
- Poetry and War, Olympic Events, and Looking for Trouble - KUOW NPR
KUOW NPRPoetry and War, Olympic Events, and Looking for TroubleKUOW NPR, WA - 5 hours ago... storyteller and teacher Merna Ann Hecht and how the war in Iraq permeates her day–to–day activities and writing. Merna Ann will read two such poems. ...
- Bob Dylan: Robert Burns is my biggest inspiration - Guardian Unlimited
Bob Dylan 's greatest creative inspiration is not Woody Guthrie, Little Richard or Odetta. It's even not Picasso or CĂ©zanne. Instead, Dylan has revealed his greatest inspiration is Scotland's favourite son, the Bard of Ayrshire, the 18th-century ...
- Ex-reporter offers help for the grieving (Monroe County Clarion)
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- The rise of Kyte TV - Media Guardian
The rise of Kyte TVMedia Guardian, UK - 9 hours agoIn the same way Twitter has a few uses (poetry, distribution, discussion, organsing meet-ups...) I think Kyte is different things to different people; ...
- This weekend only!-Guild Complex(trivia hint) stirring it up at ... - Examiner.com
Examiner.comThis weekend only!-Guild Complex(trivia hint) stirring it up at ...Examiner.com - 2 hours agoThe idea is similar to what 2nd Story has done with prose performance. Any time you hear of writers collaborating with actors you expect some sort of ...
- God, guns and gays - Southern Voice
God, guns and gaysSouthern Voice, GA - 1 hour agoAsk anyone who found comfort in poetry by Walt Whitman after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, or even the camaraderie of an auditorium of lesbians singing ...
- WestConn plays host to literary festival - Danbury News-Times
DANBURY -- Starting Monday, Western Connecticut State University will present its fourth annual Summer Literary Festival, a week of public lectures and readings by nationally acclaimed authors. The writers represent every part of the literary ...
- Library hosts exhibit of Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings - Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH — As Desmond Johnson stood quietly in the Portsmouth Public Library looking at a photo exhibit about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there were tears in his eyes. "It’s all about politicians," Johnson said. "They make us hate ...
- Karadzic's Dual Life: War Fugitive, New Age Mystic - NPR News
While living as an alternative medicine expert, Radovan Karadzic allegedly wrote for a new age Web site . Morning Edition , July 23, 2008 · Since the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader wanted for war crimes, the news in ...
- The gospel according to Job (excerpts) - Zen and Zion - CanadianChristianity.com
CanadianChristianity.comThe gospel according to Job (excerpts) - Zen and ZionCanadianChristianity.com, Canada - 3 hours agoIn a couplet of indifferent poetry that has become strangely famous, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, 'The world is so full of a number of things, ...
- A Sea of Tranquillity? - BBC News
A Sea of Tranquillity?BBC News, UK - 36 minutes agoI think it was a governor of New York who came up with that great phrase "we campaign in poetry, we govern in prose". Mr Sarkozy is one of those politicians ...
- Kay Ryan, outsider with sly style, named poet laureate (International Herald Tribune)
A reserved writer who has been compared to Emily Dickinson, Ryan has been chosen to succeed Charles Simic as the nation's 16th poet laureate
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