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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Music Saved My Life... Now I Want To Pass It On!

Rosanna Whitfield | Posted 04.04.2013 | Arts
Read More: Eugene Field, Nigel Kennedy, Germany, Education, Music, The Aberdeen International Music Festival, Art, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Whitgift International Music Competition, Merseyside Youth Orchestra, Orchestra, Liverpool, Oboist, Moers, Arts News
Rosanna Whitfield

Music definitely saved my life, and I feel privileged to be able to pass on this gift to others around the world.

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Novak Djokovic and the Crowd Whisperer of the U.S. Open

Sam Sommers | Posted 11.07.2011 | Sports
Read More: Winter Olympics 2010, Winter Olympics, Superfan, U.S. Open, U.S. Open 2011, Novak Djokovic, Internet Video, Phillie Phanatic, Cleveland Cavaliers, Tennis, Cameron Hughes, New Jersey Devils, Los Angeles Dodgers, Dance, Situations Matter, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ice Hockey, Sports Mascots, Sports Fans, The Wizard of Oz, Sports Arenas, Human Nature, Sports News
Sam Sommers

A video has been making the internet rounds showing tennis star Novak Djokovic dancing himself silly after a victory at the U.S. Open, but Djokovic's impromptu dance performance wasn't actually impromptu.

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On the Culture Front: Sting at the Met, She & Him, Wolf Parade, and The Pretty Trap

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Zooey Deschanel, Metropolitan Opera, Skeeter Davis, Music, Sting, Theater, Elaine Stritch, Tennessee Williams, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, New York, Terminal 5, The Police, Michael Riedel, Ray Manzarek, She & Him, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, M. Ward, Wolf Parade, David Byrne, New York News
Chris Kompanek

The Pretty Trap is a short one-act by Tennessee Williams that takes its title from the overbearing matriarch's belief that "all women are a pretty trap."

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Sting's Innovative 'Symphonicities' Enchants

Elizabeth Thorp | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Police, Sting, Baby Boomers, Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Entertainment News
Elizabeth Thorp

I went to see his latest tour 'Symphonicities' last night at the Jiffy Lube Pavilion; a performance in which Sting has re-imagined his favorite songs for symphonic arrangement with a 45-piece orchestra.

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Sting's Symphonicity Tour is Coming to the Met (and Docking in a Town Near You, Too).

Kristi York Wooten | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Police, Sting, Jo Lawry, Dominic Miller, Concerts, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta, Entertainment News
Kristi York Wooten

Sting can interweave major and minor-key moods like no one else.

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Stradivari Violin Sells For $1.2 Million

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Christie's Auction House, The Penny, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Stradivari, Business News

A Stradivari owned by the first woman to play in the strings section of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has sold for $1.2 million. Christie's auctio...

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