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          <title>&#8216;Flavio&#8217; brings local talents together at Piedmont</title>
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Hollywood director? Check. Spanking-new book, music and lyrics? Check. Popular local performers? Check.
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Mary Miss to visit            ]]></description>
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          <title>Baroque music fills organ series program tonight</title>
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Ensemble Chanterelle will join soprano Megan Sharp and organist Jonathan Schakel at 8 tonight in the sanctuary of Westminster Presbyterian Church as part of the Westminster Organ Concert Series. The ensemble includes soprano Sally Sanford, Cathy Liddell on theorbo and Brent Wissick on viola da gamba.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Comedy tour aims for funny bone to raise funds for a pair of causes</title>
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There&#8217;s a different way to observe Women&#8217;s History Month this year.
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          <title>Hear the latest new music tonight</title>
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The University of Virginia New Music Ensemble brings in guests for tonight&#8217;s concert &#8212; the UVa Clarinet Quartet, the improvisational trio Pinko Communoids, violist Johanna Beaver, oboist Aaron Hill, flutist Mary Anne Kidwell and percussionist Michael Schutz.
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          <title>World Music Festival&#8217;s listeners can come and go as they please</title>
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The inaugural Virginia World Music Festival will present seven ensembles playing music from around the globe from noon until about 8 p.m. Sunday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.
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          <title>&#8216;The Matchmaker&#8217; is first show  held over by team at Live Arts</title>
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Local audience members have met their match &#8212; or at least their matchmaker.
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          <title>With basses loaded, Raines hits one out of the park</title>
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Missy Raines jumped off the front porch without a safety net. Since then, she&#8217;s been soaring.
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          <title>Have blues, will travel once more</title>
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Ann Rabson won&#8217;t be sitting at home feeling lonely after Saffire &#8212; the Uppity Blues Women finishes up its farewell tour.
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          <title>Havana good time</title>
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Over the years, American listeners have embraced Cuban music.           ]]></description>
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          <title>From Salzburg to salsa: A world of inspiration</title>
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For music fans, the New World remains full of discoveries.           ]]></description>
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So, you consider yourself pretty knowledgeable about Charlottesville&#8217;s music scene.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fridays After 5 will start its new season April 17 with the music of Groove Train.</title>
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Fridays After 5 will start its new season April 17 with the music of Groove Train.
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          <title>Dads of special&#45;needs kids can get a hand</title>
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Fathers will get their turn at the upcoming Live and Learn Parent Conference and Resource Fair.           ]]></description>
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Judith Leemann returns to UVa           ]]></description>
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          <title>The &#8216;Proof&#8217; is a mess of options</title>
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Even before the Virginia Festival of the Book held its press conference to announce the 2009 lineup, Nancy Damon started talking to me about Debbie Wiener.           ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Honey&#8217; brings big ideas home</title>
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Some innkeepers leave a mint on your pillow. Others send you home with a fascinating inspiration for a play.           ]]></description>
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          <title>String theories</title>
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Fans of Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s famed &#8220;Kreutzer Sonata&#8221; might not know that violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer, to whom the work was            ]]></description>
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          <title>On the road again</title>
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There&#8217;s a musical marking called a repeat sign &#8212; a colon followed by two vertical bars &#8212; that can send musicians right back to the beginning of their work. Sometimes, that&#8217;s not where they&#8217;d rather be.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Neeley never tires of living the &#8216;Superstar&#8217; life</title>
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Back in 1971, when Ted Neeley first began performing the role of Jesus in &#8220;Jesus Christ Superstar,&#8221; the musical often drew long lines of protesters. People feared that a secular approach to the life of Christ would end up setting blasphemy to music.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Flood of emotions</title>
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For many Nelson County residents who experienced the wrath of Hurricane Camille during the night of Aug. 19-20, 1969, it was a disaster of unmitigated horror.
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          <title>Chieftains&#8217; war story has a Mexican melody</title>
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As they close in on five decades of performing together, Paddy Moloney and his band mates in the Chieftains remain excited about what they do.            ]]></description>
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The Harlem Globetrotters like to get the details just right. Some players have to have their wristbands or headbands on just so before they hit the court, for instance.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Haydn seek: Quartet starts new cycle</title>
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Things definitely go in cycles for the Leipzig String Quartet &#8212; CD cycles, that is. When the quartet isn&#8217;t performing concerts, the musicians are likely to be in the studio recording.
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          <title>Mourning  loss of true wordsmith</title>
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Horton Foote died Wednesday.           ]]></description>
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Odes of March           ]]></description>
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The Russian National Ballet Theatre will bring stars of the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets to the Paramount Theater at 7 this evening for a performance of &#8220;Cinderella.&#8221;
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          <title>Richmond Ballet shares silver show</title>
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Richmond Ballet will return to Piedmont Virginia Community College to share contemporary works from its 25th-anniversary season.           ]]></description>
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This tour isn&#8217;t songwriter Keri Noble&#8217;s first, but she&#8217;s treating it as if it is.
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          <title>Model citizens: Local competitors making us look good</title>
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There&#8217;s nothing like checking your inbox in the neuroscience department and finding a photo of Zoolander.           ]]></description>
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The Kingsmen will perform at 7 tonight at Morning Star Deliverance Tabernacle in Scottsville.
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Eighteen acts and one $1,000 prize will add up to a busy evening at the &#8220;Virginia Got Talent?&#8221; Competition, which begins at 7 p.m. Saturday in Lane Auditorium at the Albemarle County Office Building.
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          <title>Catch preview of &#8216;The Matchmaker&#8217; for evening of farce</title>
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If you&#8217;ve ever seen the popular musical &#8220;Hello, Dolly!&#8221; and wanted to know more about the Dolly behind the deals, Live Arts has all the answers.           ]]></description>
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The Virginia Consort and Consort Festival Chorus will be joined by a full orchestra and professional soloists for a concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.
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Before recently settling in Charlottesville, singer-songwriter Bentley Rhodes spent more than a decade as a full-time musician in the indie hotbed of Athens, Ga.            ]]></description>
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Wednesday is deadline for &#8216;Women&#8217;s Wellness&#8217;           ]]></description>
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The voice remains golden for her golden anniversary, and the guitar work is fluid, subtle and strong.
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Like being in the loop? You can catch the juiciest new &#8220;Rumors&#8221; at the Theatre at Ix.
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If a child were left alone in his home, or worse yet, physically beaten or called names and put down, who wouldn&#8217;t want to come to his aid?           ]]></description>
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Party launches  new art blog           ]]></description>
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Larry the Cable Guy is the soul of romance. Just get a load of his recent Valentine&#8217;s Day plans for his sweetie.           ]]></description>
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When the going gets tough, the talented get going. 
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Mary Tyler Moore turned the world on with her smile, but it was her gruff boss who made television history.           ]]></description>
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Losing someone is not easy, especially when it&#8217;s a child who dies.           ]]></description>
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This Valentine&#8217;s Day weekend, roses still may be red, but it&#8217;s the guitars that are blue. Three different shades of blues, in fact, will fill tonight&#8217;s Guitar Blues concert at the Paramount Theater.
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Men of constant sorrow? More like men of constant hits.
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The skies aren&#8217;t so friendly for Cupid this year. The recession threatens to reduce many well-intentioned Valentine&#8217;s Day plans to a stress-fest hit parade of &#8220;Is That All There Is?&#8221; followed by &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Give You Anything But Love.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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Where has all the music gone?           ]]></description>
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Tuck into Kluge-Ruhe&#8217;s latest Tucker Box Tour           ]]></description>
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To previous generations, J. Robert Oppenheimer was the man behind the atomic bomb. For a growing number of creative performing-arts minds today, he is the bomb.
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Back in William Shakespeare&#8217;s day, actors often performed in their own street clothes, figuring out on their own where to stand and learning their craft on the job in front of audiences.
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In this country most of us couldn&#8217;t imagine living in makeshift housing for a day, much less 10 years, and without running water or electricity.
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Toasting February&#8217;s finest           ]]></description>
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Performing in front of 10,000 screaming fans in England&#8217;s Wembley Stadium isn&#8217;t a bad day at the office.
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Ever wondered what your favorite radio shows look like?
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Where some people see clutter, John Tesh saw opportunity.
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Anybody who has been to the Virginia Film Festival in the past handful of years is familiar with the Adrenaline Film Project.           ]]></description>
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Dublin Philharmonic: The Irish Spectacular will bring Irish symphony music, folk instruments and vocalists to the Paramount Theater stage at 8 p.m. Monday.
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The 155-member Charlottesville High School Symphony Orchestra brings together the CHS Orchestra and the top members of the CHS Wind Ensemble.
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Even after logging more than 700 performances over more than three years, actor Jerry O&#8217;Boyle loves the way the musical &#8220;Hairspray&#8221; teases new insights out of him.           ]]></description>
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Vusi Mahlasela&#8217;s musical message of optimism continues to spread around the world. The iconic South African folk singer has been a celebrated hero in his native country since his young days as a poet-activist playing a homemade guitar during the dark times of apartheid.           ]]></description>
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When they show up for auditions, many young people who seek hands-on backstage work on a theater production find themselves strangers in a strange land.
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An album co-produced by the Virginia Folklife Program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities was named gospel album of the year by the eighth annual Independent Music Awards.
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Jim Connor, a former member of the New Kingston Trio who was a sidekick to John Denver and wrote the song &#8220;Grandma&#8217;s Featherbed,&#8221; will perform 8 p.m. Saturday at part of the Barking Cherry House Concerts series.
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Gambling is fun. Gambling is good for you. Gambling helps the community.
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A series of exhibitions are opening next week in conjunction with the Big Read.
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&#8216;Art of Paris&#8217; opens at UVa Museum
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Charlottesville Ballet will present &#8220;Winter Solstice of the Heart,&#8221; a full-length dance performance, at 7:30 tonight and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Theatre at Ix.           ]]></description>
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If there&#8217;s anything better for a violinist than performing on an astonishing instrument, perhaps it&#8217;s being able to choose between two of them.           ]]></description>
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The University of Virginia Art Museum&#8217;s new director brings a background in education, scholarship and museum administration.           ]]></description>
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Doug Schneider has no shortage of pleasant memories from participating in Four County Players productions over the years.           ]]></description>
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I don&#8217;t remember how old I was when I saw my favorite movie. It was sometime between the first and third grades. 
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Singer-songwriting duo Chris and Thomas has built a loyal audience in its home base of Los Angeles, but its earthy brand of pastoral folk sounds more in tune with the English countryside than Century City.           ]]></description>
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So the economy stinks, and some of us are a little scared.            ]]></description>
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The Virginia Quarterly Review has announced the winners of its writing prizes for 2008.
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If you are feeling anxious to do something to celebrate the new president but can&#8217;t get to the inauguration, there&#8217;s another way you can take note of the history-making occasion.            ]]></description>
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So who&#8217;s in charge between the return of Dancer and Prancer to the North Pole and the arrival of Cupid?
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For nearly 70 years Lois Scott Kannensohn has used the soft, rich tones of watercolors to express beautiful things around her.           ]]></description>
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New &#8216;Landscape&#8217; unfolds at Ruffin
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The Guggenheim Grotto has spent the past five years steadily growing from Irish folk-circuit regulars to international underground phenoms with a solid following.            ]]></description>
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Need a really big screen for the big game? Fans can see the BCS college football championship game at the Carmike 6 cinema.           ]]></description>
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Maybe once upon a time you were a writer and had big dreams about how you would write the great American novel or at least something decent that would be published and you&#8217;d have some loyal readers ... but the dream has faded like the unrecognizable old stuffed doll you hand-sewed when you were 10.           ]]></description>
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If Elvis Presley hadn&#8217;t succumbed to the effects of being Elvis Presley on Aug. 16, 1977, he would be celebrating his 74th birthday on Thursday.
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Dave Matthews Band fans can honor the memory of saxophonist LeRoi Moore by boosting efforts to help the next generation of musicians.
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No more lame excuses about how you&#8217;re too old to wait up for the Times Square ball to drop at midnight, or the live and local First Night Virginia equivalent.           ]]></description>
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There is probably no better time and place to experience Charlottesville&#8217;s renowned community spirit than during First Night Virginia on the Downtown Mall.           ]]></description>
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They play swing, they play Motown, they play disco.           ]]></description>
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Some of us might hesitate to take up a new hobby right around this busy holiday season. But there&#8217;s no reason not to plunge ahead.            ]]></description>
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Like countless travelers before him, Vaden Cox has brought home meaningful souvenirs from life-changing overseas visits.
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For the past few years Patrick Butler hadn&#8217;t bothered to decorate the outside of his Charlottesville home with any Christmas lights or decorations.           ]]></description>
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