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...following a four-month struggle with cancer. Xavier bestowed an honorary doctor of humanities degree on Kunzel in 2008. "Erich Kunzel's vision for enriching our lives with music extended beyond the stage or the recording studio," Graham said Wednesday. "He...
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Music lovers enjoyed an array of great performances in 2009, ranging from the riveting Spanish opera "Ainadamar" to the music of Arnold Schoenberg.
There were notable passings. Besides Pops maestro Erich Kunzel, 74, in September, the arts community
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The year in area arts and entertainment was almost as significant for what didn't happen as what did. But even with the "great recession," which put major expansion projects on hold and caused cutbacks in seasons, Cincinnatians saw great art, special
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Chat at noon with Tony Massarotti on sports.
Main Streets and Back Roads/Lake Winnipesaukee 7:30 p.m. WCVB-TV (Channel 5) Ted Reinstein explores Lake Winnipesaukee from every angle: on a train, on a boat, and even from the surface of the water, as he
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...has voted against renaming Cincinnati's School for Creative & Performing Arts in honor of award-winning orchestra conductor Erich Kunzel. However, the board will now consider naming the new school building for Kunzel, who recently died of cancer after leading...
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After more than 33 years with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Nancy Meyer will retire at year’s end as assistant to SPAC president Marcia White. The soft-spoken, devoted employee, who is a beloved friend to many, was honored Friday by close to 150
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Naples Orchestra and Chorus, with Robert Herrema, director, filled the performance hall of the William Noll home with music for CAPA gala guests. Photo courtesy Bernadette La Paglia
Above: Jeanne Harvey, right, proprietor of Real McCaw Restaurant in
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NBC’s “Today,” National Public Radio’s “From the Top,” Sirius Satellite Radio, WNYC New York, CosmoGirl online and on the “Martha Show”, hosted by Martha Stewart are a few of Caroline’s appearances. Others include The Cleveland Orchestra, The
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...arts leaders, musical stars, politicians, patrons and Cincinnati Pops fans of all ages. An illuminated lamppost with the Erich Kunzel Street sign stood onstage, representing the newly renamed section of Elm Street leading to the new school he championed. "Erich...
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...a week before he died on Sept. 1, Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel discussed putting together a "legacy album" with his producer for 30 years of Telarc recordings, Bob Woods, former president of Telarc. It was a brief discussion, and Kunzel mentioned...
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...arts leaders, musical stars, politicians, patrons and Cincinnati Pops fans of all ages. An illuminated lamppost with the Erich Kunzel Street sign stood onstage, representing the newly renamed section of Elm Street leading to the new school he championed. "Erich...
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The memorial concert celebrating the life of Cincinnati Pops founder and conductor Erich Kunzel will be held 7 p.m. Monday at Music Hall.
The 90-minute memorial concert, as envisioned by the Pops maestro before he died, will include celebrated opera
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Without its favorite leader, but with determination, the Bayshore Cultural and Performing Arts Center, Inc. (CAPA) board of directors and Collier County Commissioner Donna Fiala are holding the organization’s first "Friendraising" event Nov. 1. The
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No tickets remain in Music Hall for the Monday memorial concert to honor Cincinnati Pops founder Erich Kunzel, but about 500 seats remain in Music Hall's Ballroom for a live simulcast on two giant screens.
Music Hall, which seats 3,417, filled on
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CINCINNATI -- Tickets are available for the upcoming Erich Kunzel memorial concert.
Kunzel served as conductor of the Cincinnati Pops, but he passed away in September after a battle with cancer.
The orchestra is planning a concert in his honor next
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For the first time, a concert will be beamed live from Music Hall's stage to Fountain Square. A memorial concert celebrating the life of Cincinnati Pops founder and conductor Erich Kunzel at 7 p.m. on Oct. 19 will be simulcast on Fountain Square's LED
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When conductor Steven Reineke was growing up in Tipp City, Ohio, he never dreamed he would be on the stages of Cincinnati's Music Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York.
"Not a clue. I'm still pinching myself every day," says Reineke, who recently moved to
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...more than 30 years the charismatic Erich Kunzel was the Phineas T. Barnum of light classical music, the crossover king who led the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra to renown and made kitsch almost respectable outside its natural habitat. At their concerts conductor...
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This year will be a different one for Paavo Järvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. For the first time, the orchestra will not be making any Telarc recordings, because its longtime record company no longer produces records.
Two tours are planned:
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SIGHTINGS | By Terry Teachout New York Erich Kunzel conducted the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra on Aug. 1, a month before he died of pancreatic cancer. The audience, which knew of Kunzel's illness, was by all accounts profoundly moved by his determination
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...admission tickets will also be required for this overflow seating. More than 450 individuals have left tributes on a special Erich Kunzel memorial Web site, where the public is encouraged to view photos from Maestro Kunzelâs celebrated career and post remembrances....
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...of Erich Kunzel's favorite famous collaborators - trumpeter Doc Severinsen, jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, singer Michael Feinstein and soprano Frederica von Stade - reminisce about the late Cincinnati Pops conductor on WGUC-FM's (90.9) tribute 7:30-9:30 p.m....
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If Arthur Fiedler was the grandfather of pops, then Erich Kunzel certainly was its father.
In his half century as the conductor of the Boston Pops, Fiedler set the standard for entertainment music.
Kunzel went ahead and raised the bar.
As the first
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...councilmember Roxanne Qualls and SCPA principal Jonathon Futch. There also will be musical performances by SCPA students. "Erich Kunzel Way" is the stretch of Elm Street between Central Parkway and 14th Street, bridging Kunzel's two passions: the orchestra's...
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...Kunzel's name will adorn the street next to the school beginning Saturday. Cincinnati City Council unanimously voted to add "Erich Kunzel Way" to the street signs along the stretch of Elm Street between Central Parkway and 14th Street, bridging Music Hall...
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Oddest couple I've heard about recently: David Cross of Arrested Development and Amber Tamblyn of Joan of Arcadia. He's 45 and she's 26 — not that there's anything wrong with that.
Another couple of famous Ken/Kenneths from reader Terrell:
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The Cincinnati Pops will open its season in Music Hall on Friday with a tribute to "Star Wars" composer John Williams, as planned by Erich Kunzel. But even though the longtime Pops maestro died of cancer last week, the evening won't be sad, says
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...mark on the end of an epoch in audio history. Cincinnati has lost a primal musical life force, but so have we all. Photos: Top, Erich Kunzel leads the National Symphony Orchestra for "A Capitol Fourth" in 2008. Credit: Capitol Concerts. Below, Kunzel in 2007....
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When Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel died on Tuesday at age 74 after a four-month battle with cancer, he left a lasting legacy - an amazing catalog of more than 125 recordings.
Kunzel's unprecedented, 30-year relationship with Telarc
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...his career. He found his avenue for making music personal, for making those connections. I will remember many things about Erich Kunzel, even from my limited, work-related contacts with him: Trying to keep up with the high-energy, overscheduled conductor as...
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D-Day in World War II, fought through Belgium and Germany and liberated a concentration camp.
This is a great story, told with tight scripts, superb direction and talented actors. The first three chapters air tonight.
Football, 8 p.m., ABC. The
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CINCINNATI -- A memorial concert was scheduled for October to honor Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conductor Erich Kunzel.
Kunzel died Tuesday morning after a four-month battle with cancer of the pancreas, liver and colon.
The Cincinnati Pops will hold the
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Most of you may not be familiar with the name Erich Kunzel. If you’re an avid collector of soundtracks you may know that Mr. Kunzel was a heavy force in the film music world. As conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, he devoted much of his life on
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The funeral arrangements for Maestro Erich Kunzel will be a private, family gathering in Maine, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra announced.
The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is planning a special memorial concert in Cincinnati celebrating Kunzel’s life.
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Erich Kunzel, 74, the American pops conductor and colorful showman who sold more than 10 million recordings and for nearly two decades provided the national Memorial Day and Fourth of July soundtracks with the concerts he led on the Capitol lawn, died
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Daniel Meyer and the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra always draw a crowd to the annual Heritage Festival, which is scheduled for Sept. 12 at Liberty Park. Meyer is a rising star, and Philharmonic Executive Director Eric
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...am deeply saddened by the passing of Erich Kunzel," Oundjian said in an emailed statement. "Since his first concert with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1975, Maestro Kunzel has been a dear friend and the treasured leader of the TSO Pops series." Oundjian...
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As tributes poured in today in remembrance of longtime Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel, who died Tuesday in Maine, plans were under way to present a concert in his memory at Music Hall. The date and details were yet to be worked out.
It was
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...was officially established in 1977 with Kunzel as conductor. This photo provided by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, shows Erich Kunzel, center, the award-winning conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, on Aug. 1, 2009. A spokesman for the Cincinnati Pops...
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It's been ages since Richmond band went into hiding to record their newest album. Over a year and a half went by and not a word from ...
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CINCINNATI — Erich Kunzel, the award-winning conductor who headed the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra since it was founded three decades ago and who won international fame through sales of more than 10 million recordings, has died at age 74.
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Award-winning conductor Erich Kunzel has died at the age of 74. He had been diagnosed with liver, colon and pancreatic cancer in April. Kunzel headed the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra since it was founded three decades ago. He had led the National Symphony
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Erich Kunzel, who led the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's pop series for more than 30 years, "was an enticing, charming and witty leader, who gave himself always and completely to the performance" TSO music director Peter Oundjian said in a statement
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Toronto Star
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...â Erich Kunzel, the award-winning conductor who headed the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra since it was founded three decades ago and who won international fame through sales of more than 10 million recordings, has died at age 74. Kunzel was diagnosed with liver,...
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...Kunzel, 74, the award-winning conductor who headed the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra since it was founded three decades ago and who won international fame through sales of more than 10 million recordings, died yesterday at a hospital near his home in Swan's Island,...
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...Kunzel, who conducted the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for more than three decades, undermining the pretensions of symphonic music in more than 80 recordings and in concerts from Carnegie Hall to the Grand Ole Opry to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,...
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...Kunzel, one of classical music's best-loved pops conductors, died Tuesday at age 74. The Grammy Award-winning maestro, widely dubbed "The Prince of Pops," was diagnosed with liver, colon and pancreatic cancer earlier this year. But Kunzel maintained many of...
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...-- Erich Kunzel, the award-winning conductor who headed the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra since it was founded three decades ago and who won international fame through sales of more than 10 million recordings, has died. He was 74. Kunzel was diagnosed with liver,...
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...Kunzel, seen during a rehearsal in Washington in 2007, has died at the age of 74. (Jamie Rose/Getty Images)Noted conductor Erich Kunzel, the lively and award-winning conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, has died at the age of 74. Kunzel died in hospital...
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