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Premium Content Eric Lichter keeps it reel at Dirt Floor Studio

 February 20, 2012

You never know where you'll be when you get some life-changing advice.

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Premium Content NEW: When Bobby Brown takes the stage, the party gets started

 February 19, 2012

At 8:20 Saturday night in the Mohegan Sun Arena, the lights went out and, to a vast roar of adoration from the sold-out crowd, five-sixth of the original New Edition hit the stage as part of their 30th anniversary reunion tour.

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Premium Content Music and more at CBSRZ

 February 19, 2012

The Ethan Lipton ensemble will perform at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek in Chester on Sunday, Feb. 26, as the opening concert in the Music & More Series at the synagogue. Lipton and his band have released four albums and played at...

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Premium Content Bobby Brown appears with New Edition at Mohegan Sun

 February 18, 2012

Whitney Houston’s ex-husband, Bobby Brown, briefly appeared at her funeral Saturday in New Jersey before flying to Connecticut to perform with his group, New Edition, at Mohegan Sun.

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Live stream of Whitney Houston's funeral

 February 18, 2012

Click this link to watch a live stream of Whitney Houston's funeral in Newark, N.J.

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Live stream of Whitney Houston’s funeral tomorrow at noon

 February 17, 2012

Whitney Houston’s funeral at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., will be broadcast via a live web stream beginning at noon on Saturday. A link to the stream will be available on the homepage of theday.com.

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Premium Content Eddie Money leads first Wolf Den Hall of Fame concert

 February 16, 2012

Let it be said: there have been so many stars to perform in the intimate Mohegan Sun Wolf Den that a representative "Hall of Fame" concert of those headliners could only take place … well, in the 10,000-seat Mohegan Sun Arena.

Indeed, on...

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Premium Content The Brentano String Quartet complete unfinished works

 February 16, 2012

Who says classical dudes don't have any fun?

The Brentano String Quartet, which performs Friday at Connecticut College, is riding high on the fresh vision of their latest project, "Fragments - Connecting Past and...

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Premium Content Will Bobby Brown be with New Edition at Mohegan Sun?

 February 16, 2012

Without New Edition, why, we'd arguably have never had New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys, and 'N Sync!

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Premium Content March madness with Blast!

 February 16, 2012

A troupe member has described Blast! as a "marching band on steroids."

The show's own PR dubs it "part Riverdance, part Stomp! and part homecoming parade."

Whatever you want to call it, Blast! promises to be, well, a blast. The...

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Premium Content Sue Menhart and Nancy Parent join musical forces

 February 16, 2012

Maybe you have to be of a certain mindset, but if a music poster hypes "Winter Blues," well, chances are pretty good I'm showing up and expecting to see Johnny throwing down "Memory Pain" and "The Good Love."

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Premium Content Mystic songwriter Bill Pere wins Grammy Award

 February 14, 2012

Mystic songwriter Bill Pere won a Grammy Award Sunday night for his song "Donkey in a Ditch," co-written with Les Julian. The song was included on the multi-artist, anti-bullying CD "All About Bullies Big and Small." All proceeds from...

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Premium Content Steve Elci has his eyes on the prize

 February 13, 2012

Commercial music's biggest awards show, the Grammys, took place Sunday. Today starts a new Grammy calendar.

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Premium Content Seldom-played Tchaikovsky piece proves highlight of ECSO concert

 February 13, 2012

New London - In a concert headlined "All in the Family," Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra conductor Toshiyuki Shimada teamed up Saturday with wife Eva Virsik in Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2, but the highlight of the evening at the...

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Premium Content Eddie Allen headlines jazz night out

 February 12, 2012

The Arts Center Killingworth presents its annual Jazz NightOut on Saturday, Feb. 18, with headliner and New York master trumpeter Eddie Allen and his quartet. The show starts at 7:30 p.m.

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Will Adele be the belle of the Grammy ball?

 February 11, 2012

Adele is the rare star who doesn't need multiple magazine covers, a cosmetics contract or a clothing line to sell albums. She does it all based on the strength of that sumptuous voice and those stirring songs.

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Premium Content Going alt-classical with Brooklyn Rider

 February 9, 2012

Since the advent of mass-marketed recorded music, classical musicians have sought to "cross over" into popular styles, whether it's opera superstar Renee Fleming making a rock album or the Kronos Quartet recording "Purple Haze."

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Premium Content A musical connection with ECSO concert

 February 9, 2012

You know what people are going to say: these two make beautiful music together. Aw. By "these two," we mean: Toshiyuki (Toshi) Shimada, who is, of course, the music director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra; and the soloist for...

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Premium Content Magazine tip: "Flight of the Concord"

 February 9, 2012

Jeremy Denk

The New Yorker (2/6/12)

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Premium Content Timothy Reynish conducts CG Band

 February 9, 2012

British conductor Timothy Reynish champions new music - commissioning it and performing it. And he's not all talk.

When he leads Sunday's U.S. Coast Guard Band concert, he'll conduct a program consisting entirely of pieces that have...

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Premium Content A little jazz with Dominick Farinacci

 February 9, 2012

You can't always judge a person by the company he or she keeps. Jazz trumpeter and rising star Dominick Farinacci, though, hangs with some Serious Folks - having performed recently with Jeff Beck, Jamie Cullum, Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter,...

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Premium Content The Katharine Hepburn Center hosts Howie Day

 February 9, 2012

There are not too many Major Rock People from Brewer, Maine, and not a lot named "Howard," either - although, in the context of the latter, you can't discount Howard "Things Can Only Get Better" Jones and Mayberry's Howard Sprague.

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Premium Content Field Recordings bring their noise pop to New London

 February 9, 2012

Used to be, "field recordings" referred to scratchy reel-to-reel treasures: tapes of Mance Lipscomb wailing rural blues or Mississippi chain gangs singing work hollers, captured by folk archivists like John Lomax and revealing unknown...

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Premium Content Mark Ballas sings and signs at Mohegan Sun

 February 9, 2012

Changing focus: Mark Ballas is famous for his dancing, thanks to "Dancing with the Stars." When he comes to Mohegan Sun Friday, though, he'll be singing and playing guitar for an hour-long performance and then will do a...

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M.I.A. middle finger upstages Madonna's Super Bowl

 February 6, 2012

The NFL and a major television network are apologizing for another Super Bowl halftime show.

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