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Review: Cleve brings balance, precision and musicality to another well-rounded Midsummer Mozart program

Written on July 15, 2011 – 1:54 pm | by Cameron Hussey

One of the daunting challenges of programming Mozart’s music is the sheer scope of the composer’s output. Does one focus on the symphonies or short orchestral works? Vocal music, or the concertos?

Happily, the Midsummer Mozart Festival has never seen the choice as an either/or proposition. Under founder and music director George Cleve, the San Francisco-based festival spends each summer exploring every corner of the Mozart canon, and the results tend to be both eclectic and musically rewarding.

This year’s festival — Midsummer Mozart’s 37th — opened Thursday evening at the California Theater in San Jose with a characteristically wide-ranging lineup.

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Stage collapses during Cheap Trick set at Ottawa Bluesfest

Written on July 15, 2011 – 4:59 am | by Cameron Hussey

TORONTO (AP) — The main stage at Ottawa Bluesfest in Ontario collapsed Sunday night during a Cheap Trick concert as a severe thunderstorm sent the musicians and thousands of fans running for cover. At least five people were injured, one seriously.

Cheap Trick’s band members got off the stage safely, but witnesses said they were thrown off their feet.

“Everyone is OK and we are so lucky to be alive and hope that all the fans are OK too,” the band, best known for hits including “Surrender,” “I Want You to Want Me,” and “The Flame,” said in a message posted on Facebook.

Video of the Bluesfest site posted on YouTube within minutes of the storm’s passing showed a stage that had crumpled and collapsed over electronic equipment.

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Two injured as stage collapses in storm at Ottawa concert

Written on July 15, 2011 – 12:40 am | by Jaxon Hallahan

  

OTTAWA — Thousands of people were evacuated from Ottawa’s Bluesfest on Sunday after the stage collapsed during a Cheap Trick concert.

Ottawa police reported that two people suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Concertgoer Pamela Cogan said a pole broke off the back of the stage and hit Cheap Trick’s driver.

“I held his head until (we) got him into the ambulance,” said Cogan, a respiratory therapist at the Ottawa Hospital who is also trained in first aid.

She said he suffered head and leg injuries and a cut on his stomach.

“I can’t understand how people on the stage weren’t hurt,” said Cogan, who said she was standing about three metres away when the storm hit.

The Sunday evening programming at the multi-day outdoor concert was cancelled after the violent storm.

Bluesfest spokesman Joe Reilly said the festival constantly monitors weather satellites. He said there was a

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‘American Idol’s’ Aaron Kelly will perform during Celebration of Children in Harrisburg

Written on July 14, 2011 – 4:12 pm | by Jaxon Hallahan

Midstate children will have the opportunity to showcase their talents during PECAN, Inc.s Celebration of Children , Sunday in downtown Harrisburg.

The event, featuring children chosen to perform, will include presentations of instrumental, dance, gymnastics, voice, public speaking, and other specialties, and creative arts.

Awards will be given to various members of the community who have promoted arts for youth. Aaron Kelly, fifth runner-up on the ninth season of American Idol, will take home the Arpeggio Award for his work with youth through the musical arts. Kelly will sing a song and sign autographs for fans.

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Music: Newswire: Pharrell invites ladies to relax by swallowing his Qream

Written on July 13, 2011 – 5:08 pm | by Jaxon Hallahan

Navigating the business world can be a real pressure-cooker for the modern woman, what with all their lady-business and lady-pressures and such. Fortunately for this hard-working female population, and specifically just for the female population, hip-hop artist and women’s studies major Pharrell Williams has developed something to help them unwind: his new ultra-premium cream liqueur, Qreamwith liqueur written just like that, in quotes, which seems to be tipping the hand a bit. Speaking to AllHipHop, Pharrell said that everything about his new enterprise has been made to appeal to women, whose power he totally respects.

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