Red Hot and Blue Smithsonian Exhibit Opens in D C
Smithsonian showcases American musical history in Red Hot and Blue a 400 item display at the National Portrait Gallery featuring videos sheet music Gershwin Berlin Judy Garland dresses and stories from Lillian Russell Cohan Kern and Rodgers. The exhibit marks the 150th anniversary of the Smithsonian and runs until July 6 1997 with free admission and a London Drury Lane parallel show.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Irving Berlin
Judy Garland
St Louis
Kitty Carlisle Hart
New York State Council On the Arts
National Portrait Gallery
Dwight Blocker Bowers
National Museum of American History
New York Academy of Music
Niblo’s Garden
New York
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New York Tribune
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Jerome Kern
Oscar Hammerstein
George Kaufman
Alan Jay Lerner
Frederick Loewe
Kurt Weill
Richard Rodgers
Moss Hart
Kitty Carlisle
Jonathan Larson
Smuithsonian Institution
London
Drury Lane Theater
Julie Andrews
George Bernard Shaw
Beatles sales surge after break up in hottest year yet
London AP reports the Beatles posthumously dominate the music year. Six million back catalog albums plus 13 million copies of two new anthologies lead the surge, with teen buyers comprising 41 percent of purchasers. A third anthology due Monday could push yearly sales past 20 million. Geof Baker notes the phenomenon as fans born after 1970 drive profits.
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Beatles
Geoff Baker
Baker
Beatles profits seen from sales and rights split
Report notes Gross record sales TV rights and video sales may total about 735 million this year with EMI earning the bulk. The Beatles share will be divided among Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono. Reference to John Lennon’s 1980 death in New York City.
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Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Lennon
New York City
Original Star Trek cast marks 30th anniversary gala
LA AP report notes the original Enterprise crew from 1960s Star Trek celebrated its 30th anniversary with a charity broadcast on UPN. William Shatner DeForest Kelley Nichelle Nichols James Doohan George Takei Walter Koenig attended alongside Buzz Aldrin Mae Jemison and Ben Stiller. US flags from space were presented to cast members of the original and the spin offs Star Trek Next Generation Deep Space Nine and Voyager. The event recalled the 1966 69 NBC run and upcoming film release.
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Capt Kirk
DeForest Kelley
Dr. McCoy
Nichelle Nichols
Lt Uhura
James Doohan
Scotty
George Takei
Lulu
Walter Koenig
Chekov
Buzz Aldrin
Mae Jemison
Jemison
Uhura
NBC
Shatner
Ben Stiller
Stiller
Sulu
Takei
Banjo Maker Wunderlich Shares Passion for History
Wunderlich crafts and sells banjos for 350 to 1000 dollars and appears at eight or nine reenactments and craft shows yearly. He uses his instruments in old time music concerts and at battle reenactments while pursuing 18th century varnish history in Genoa and calling himself a lunatic.
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Genoa
Landgren Stars In 1978 BSO Concert During Conservatory Year
During his senior year at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Landgren performed with the BSO. An International Horn Society member, he released a solo CD A Golden Horn with Ann Schein piano. He teaches at Peabody and won the 1989 Montpelier Recital Competition. Tickets 22 adults 8 students at Frederick County Tourism Council or Gov Thomas Johnson High School auditorium. Call 620-1798.
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International Horn Society
Landgren
Ann Schein
Peabody Institute
Frederick County
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