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A voice silenced in 1996 is brought back to life
Special to The Baltimore SunDuring her short life of 33 years, singer Eva Cassidy was hardly known beyond her gigs at Blues Alley in Washington and at Pearl's, Reynolds Tavern and the Maryland Inn in Annapolis. Her two recordings, a 1992 CD called The Other Side that featured go-...Tags: Annapolis, Contracts, Cancer, Patsy Cline, Music
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BMA offers podcasts of self-guided tours of 14 city statues
Sun reporterMost residents drive through the same Baltimore streets each day, on the way to work or class. Usually it takes an ill-timed stoplight for them to pass a bored or tired glance over a nearby statue or monument, one of the many throughout the city. Vaguely,...Tags: John Quincy Adams, Charles Village, Baltimore Museum of Art, University of Maryland, History
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Another Opening Day
Sun architecture criticThe new Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel has been described as the city's first true "convention hotel," in part because it's the first one connected by enclosed sky bridges to Baltimore's 29-year-old convention center. But that's not the only...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Hotels and Accommodations, Bank of America Corp., Restaurant and Catering Industry, Architecture
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Hotel is a work of art that houses local works of art
Sun architecture criticDowntown Baltimore has a new art gallery, but visitors can't buy any of its works. The art is on the walls of the Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel that opens Friday. As part of its theme of celebrating Baltimore, the city-owned building is...Tags: Timonium, Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland), Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Hotels and Accommodations
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Rogers Bringing His Hip Hybrids To Falls Village
Ideas hatched under the thatched roof of a hut in a rural West African village fuel the imagination of David Rogers, a creative, questing saxophonist/composer with an ecumenical worldview of music. A visionary and native of America's heartland, Rogers,...Tags: Jorge Luis Borges, New Jersey, Music, Jazz Music, Folk Music
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Lee Young, jazz drummer, dead at 94
LOS ANGELES - Lee Young, a jazz drummer who served as Nat King Cole's musical director for nearly a decade and broke barriers as one of the first black musicians hired for a staff position with a Hollywood studio orchestra, has died. He was 94. Young,...Tags: Benny Goodman, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Count Basie, Cancer, Death and Dying
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New Haven Jazz Festival is alive and licking
SPECIAL TO THE COURANTFreshly resurrected from the dead, the New Haven Jazz Festival this weekend trumpets the glories of local musicians with an all-star lineup stocked with many players with Connecticut links. Given up for dead last summer after suffering declining health...Tags: Orange County Regional History Center, Wynton Marsalis, Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), Woody Herman, History
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A 'soul' street gets a makeover from city
Sun ReporterThe area has been vacant for years, just a large patch of grass and a few scattered trees enclosed by a fence at Fremont and Pennsylvania avenues. But city officials are planning to transform the blighted spot into a plaza, complete with a stage for...Tags: Government, Count Basie, National or Ethnic Minorities, Cultural Development, National Government
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Hard heart fits 'Merchant'; 'History' harmony at Quest
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEShakespeare's most disagreeable play (after the gore-fest of "Titus Andronicus") usually gets lumped in with the comedies, but to our contemporary sensibilities it's about as funny as bear baiting. There are comic moments, to be sure, but make no mistake:...Tags: Pete Seeger, Venice, History, Interreligious Dialogue, Music
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Recycling Sphinx Club site
Sun reporterThe storied Sphinx Club on Pennsylvania Avenue could be reborn as a museum, arts center, shops, housing or another community use, say Baltimore economic development officials, who are seeking redevelopment proposals for the now-vacant site in West...Tags: Economic Policy, Minority Groups, Basketball, National or Ethnic Minorities, Cultural Development
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Lee Young, 94; jazz drummer played with Ellington, Goodman
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLee Young, a jazz drummer who served as Nat King Cole's musical director for nearly a decade and broke barriers as the first African American hired for a staff position with a Hollywood studio orchestra, has died. He was 94. Young, brother of the great...Tags: Benny Goodman, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Count Basie, Cancer, National or Ethnic Minorities
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On this day in history
On July 17, 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States. In 1898 the Spanish garrison in Santiago, Cuba, surrendered to U.S. forces in the Spanish-American War. (Nine days later, Spain sought peace terms.) In 1903 artist James Whistler, best known...Tags: Government, Major League Baseball, John Coltrane, Carlton Fisk, Long Island
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