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Nearly seven years ago, jazz concert producer Glenn Siegel found he was saying “no” more than he wanted to say “yes.” He said that’s because more great…
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Dan Román began composing as a young teenager growing up in Puerto Rico. He doesn't know why he started, exactly — just that simply playing instruments…
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Opera fans, and even non-fans, are familiar with the music of Bizet's "Carmen" or Puccini's "Madama Butterfly." Lesser-known is the world of new opera,…
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Today, many composers don't perform on the instruments they write for -- they compose for other musicians. It wasn't that way centuries ago. Think Bach or…
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Jazz vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles, a native of western Massachusetts, has been making a name for herself nationally.Charles, 29, is among a new…
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Abe Loomis of Conway, Massachusetts, says he feels deeply connected to western Massachusetts and to the Berkshires. Loomis is a singer songwriter who…
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Pianist Khalif Neville is heir to one of the most prominent musical families to come out of New Orleans. Khalif is the son of Charles Neville, of the…
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This is how a guitar prodigy starts out: Kiam Rennix of Springfield, Massachusetts, was seven years old, watching a Saturday children's show on public TV…