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WATCH: How To Deal With Annoying Cell Phone Users

Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Cell Phones, Performances, Orchestras, Video, Rude Cell Phone Conversations, Urlesque, Troll Orchestra, Music, Instruments, Live Music, Comedy News

The only thing worse than a ringing cell phone in the middle of a show is the person who has the audacity to take the call. Even worse are the ones th...

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Experience Parisian Opulence At The Getty

Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Getty Center, Louis Xv, Furniture, France, Eighteenth Century, Getty Museum, Design, 18th Century, The Getty, Instruments, Los Angeles, French Arts, Paris, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

The Getty Museum's exhibition "Paris Life and Luxury" is a chance to experience the opulence which filled the parlors of Paris in the mid-eighteenth c...

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WATCH: Music Student Turns Vacant High School Into Instrument

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pop Music, Contemporary-Music, Musical Instruments, Music-Student, Experimental Music, Contemporary Art, Drumming, Instruments, Music, Ben Meyers, Drums, Arts News

When it comes to creation, there is never really a right time or place; what it takes is initiative. Music student Ben Meyers proves this with his im...

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Music Unites Expands Efforts in 2011 With Nationwide Instrument Drive

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Empowering Women, Axe, Aimee Mann, Music Education, Peter Yorn, Hard Rock Cafe, Non-Profits, J Mascis, The Roots, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Instruments, The Who, Bronx Zoo, Epic Records, Ascap, Carnegie, Choir, Chicago, Music Unites, Benito Juarez Community Academy, Michael Dorf, Reni Lane, Bowery Presents, Mtv, Living Colour, O.a.R., Education News
Michelle Edgar

In less than two years, Music Unites has grown exponentially and expanded a number of its programs. The New York-based non-profit has grown from an id...

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Software Engineer Brings Music To Appalachia (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Donations, Charity, Appalachia, Volunteering, Volunteerism, Ian Felton, Third World America, Marching Mountains, Instruments, Music, Video, Business News

It started with the saxophone in elementary school. Then the snare drum in middle school, the bass guitar in high school, the participation in jazz ba...

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L.A. Gangs Save Lives

Margaret Martin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: LA Gangs, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Instruments, Music, Violin, Los Angeles City College, Harmony Project, Los Angeles-California, Healthy Living News
Margaret Martin

After 8 or 10 minutes, the gang members put their hands in their pockets and, without speaking to one another, gently placed their money in the little kid's violin case.

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