All posts tagged "wolf trap"
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Swinging Standards
''It's all right for younger people to like older music,'' says pianist John Eaton, an expert of the Great American Songbook and jazz music from...
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Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks at The Barns at Wolf Trap
Bringing a devilish twist to holiday classics and original songs, lively folk-jazz originator Dan Hicks and his band The Hot Licks tour in support of...
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The Senate: A Long Way From Sixty
It was not too long ago that the Democrats had — finally — seated the 100th senator: Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.). That magic 60-vote count...
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The Flying Karamazov Brothers at Wolf Trap
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov inspired this legendary American group's name and each performer has taken on a Russian persona. The Flying Karamazov Brothers offer...
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Summer Heat
''I tell people, if I were in prison, I would be out already,'' says Donna Summer. ''It's kind of old.'' In the mid-'80s, rumors swirled...
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Mary Chapin Carpenter at Wolf Trap
“Hometown Girl” Mary Chapin Carpenter returns to Wolf Trap (where she’s performed 16 times) for the first time in five years, and for the first...
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Vocal Glee
''I'm really excited about sharing the stage with Marvin Hamlisch,'' says Idina Menzel. ''We might even do a song together. I'm trying to get him...
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Musical Wizardry
There's this amazing detail in sounds and colors and orchestrations that you just really don't hear in the movie theater anymore,'' says the National Symphony...
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SONiA's Splash
Sonia Rutstein was as disheartened as every other gay person by the passage last fall of California's Propositon 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative. ''We move...
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Note for Note
A word of advice to those planning to attend a concert conducted by Emil de Cou: Remain in your seats. No autopilot standing ovations, please....
