SVSU's 'Miss Nelson' a joy for all ages From The Saginaw News MLive.com What joy, absolute joy it is to revel in being a kid again during a performance of "Miss Nelson Is Missing." After its three public performances this weekend (at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday) it then plays several days before bused-in elementary students. Rubin, set designer Jerry Dennis, choreographer Colleen Cartwright and costumer Elise Shannon for delivering those goods -- and college students Kurt McCool, Amanda Mueller, Allison Murray and Keith del Rio for...

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Review: Buble knows how to do Sinatra smooth From Florida TimesUnion DANNY CLINCH/PBS Michael Buble, shown in a PBS Great Performances program, brought his smooth musical style to Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena on Sunday. He's not a personal music of choice with his smooth take on standards and his smooth way of making newer songs sound like standards. From the Sinatra-esque Call Me Irresponsible and That's Life to the Motown of How Sweet It Is (to be Loved by You) and Save the Last Dance for Me, he and his 13-man band made that big-band, big-voice hip...

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Naturally 7 winning new fans From www.acappellanews.com/ When the first member of the group came out, in his sleeveless undershirt and doo-rag, and started laying down some vocal sound effects, some of crowd had to wonder if they'd mistakenly wandered into a hip-hop concert. After a highly successful tour across Canada the group now begins a US tour as the opening act for Michael Buble.

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Singing His Praises From www.acappellanews.com/ No matter whether you spell it acapella, acapela or a cappella we have all the singing news that's fit to blog. The Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale have risen to the top tier of choral music under Charles Bruffy, the quietly intense, mildly eccentric conductor who was unknown when he was named artistic director in Kansas City in 1988. He leads his singers to his "ideal sound" through a mix of the prosaic and the poetic, says singer Josh Hillmann, who has been a member of the...

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Night Life From New Yorker Those are some pretty highfalutin authors to align yourself with, but the band's members aren't a bunch of bookworms, and their live shows and albums are true to their other heroes, among them Bruce Springsteen, the Replacements, and Wilco. Dean Wareham led the whisper-quiet trio Galaxie 500 before starting the popular lo-fi alternative-rock band Luna. Now the genre-blurring hip-hop pioneers are breaking their silence for a good cause, as they headline a benefit for the Institute for Music...

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