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	<title>Organ Transplant: Kennedy Center unveils its new world&#45;class Concert Hall Organ</title>
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Concert:&#40;Photo by Scott Suchman&#41;&#39;&#39;An organ in a concert hall has to have balls&#44;&#39;&#39; says organ consultant Jeff Weiler&#46; &#39;&#39;And the old organ was just whistling Dixie&#46;&#39;&#39;The Kennedy Center&#39;s original Concert Hall organ was&#44; according to Weiler&#44; &#39;&#39;the dying gasp of a once&#45;very prominent organ builder&#46;&#39;&#39; Aeolian&#45;Skinner built the organ as quickly and cheaply as possible &#38;ndash&#59; using what Weiler refers to as &#39;&#39;shop sweepings&#39;&#39; &#38;ndash&#59; before going out of business immediately after installation in 1972&#46; &#39;&#39;It did not work musically&#44; and it was unreliable mechanically&#44;&#39;&#39; says Weiler&#44; who notes that many&#44; including the late&#44; great organist Virgil Fox&#44; have complained about the instrument from day one&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Strike a Pose&#44; Not a Chord: Madonna&#39;s latest road show is visually stunning &#150; but suffers in sound</title>
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Concert:Nobody wants to see a 54&#45;year&#45;old stripper&#46;You might think Madonna didn&#39;t get that memo based on her performance in her latest road show&#44; &#39;&#39;The MDNA Tour&#46;&#39;&#39; But if the pop idol&#39;s 30&#45;year&#44; controversy&#45;attracting career is any indication&#44; chances are&#44; she got that memo and pissed all over it&#46;You could see the deviance on her face as Madonna disrobed in front of an enthused Philadelphia audience at the U&#46;S&#46; opening of her MDNA Tour Tuesday&#44; Aug&#46; 28&#46; She literally gives you the shirt off her back after arriving onstage three and a half hours after the venue opened its doors&#46; Question is&#44; who wants to see that&#63; Fan or foe&#44; you can&#39;t look away&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Uking it Up: Strathmore welcomes thousands to celebrate the ukulele</title>
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Concert:&#39;&#39;Did you know we had 964 ukulele players last year&#63;&#39;&#39;Marcy Marxer is reminiscing about the success of last year&#39;s UkeFest at Strathmore&#44; which attracted a crowd of 2&#44;100 people&#46; Marxer&#44; with her partner Cathy Fink&#44; actually worked to ensure all 964 players knew how to play before the feat&#44; designed for the Guinness Book of World Records&#46;&#39;&#39;It was a stunning&#44; community group effort&#44;&#39;&#39; Marxer says&#46; &#39;&#39;It was more like a joy fest than anything else&#46;&#39;&#39; And that success has inspired Marxer and Fink to make this year&#39;s UkeFest&#44; the fourth annual&#44; even larger&#46; The duo &#38;ndash&#59; in music and in life &#38;ndash&#59; has organized a three&#45;day Uke and Guitar Summit preceding the UkeFest concert and party next Wednesday&#44; Aug&#46; 15&#46; This year&#39;s event focuses even more than before on ukulele&#39;s place in Hawaiian music and culture&#44; and features notable Hawaiian artists the Hula Honeys&#44; Moanalani and Keola Beamer&#46; &#39;&#39;&#91;In recent years&#93; the ukulele has been getting a lot of attention but Hawaiian artists aren&#39;t necessarily getting as much attention as we think they deserve&#44;&#39;&#39; says Marxer&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Swing Time: Steven Reineke leads the NSO Pops in some Voodoo fun</title>
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Concert:This summer&#44; Steven Reineke will perform with Idina Menzel at Wolf Trap&#44; supporting the Broadway and TV star with the National Symphony Orchestra Pops&#46; But this weekend&#44; Reineke will lead a show of a different sort&#44; wearing a black velvet sport jacket as he conducts the Pops&#46;A black velvet sport jacket&#63;Steve Reineke ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Marriage Singer: Accomplished singer and actress Audra McDonald is also one of the loudest voices for marriage equality</title>
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Concert:&#39;&#39;I want my child to be able to marry whoever she wants to marry when she grows up&#44; and have the same rights as everyone else&#44;&#39;&#39; says Audra McDonald&#46; Her daughter Zoe Madeline &#40;named for actors Zoe Caldwell and Madeline Kahn&#41; is 10&#46; &#39;&#39;I&#39;m not saying my child&#39;s gay &#45;&#45; she may be someday&#44; I don&#39;t know&#46; Who knows now&#63; But she deserves all those rights as every other &#91;person&#93; in the United States&#46;&#39;&#39;An award&#45;winning singer and actress&#44; McDonald has long been a staunch supporter of gay rights and especially gay marriage&#44; in part&#44; as she puts it&#44; because &#39;&#39;some of the closest people in my life are gays and lesbians&#46; I consider them family&#46;&#39;&#39;Audra McDonald ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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