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Heavy Rotation Year Ender: Public Radio’s Top 10 Songs of 2013

To celebrate the best music of 2013, NPR created a continuous playlist of songs compiled from Top 10s from around the country.

16 Favorite Shen Yun Heroes Which Would You Want to Be?

Take a glimpse of the most noteworthy characters, – their inner character traits and what makes them spectacular as people or as heroes and not just as characters in a dance performance.

Arts History Restored to New York Times Square NYC

around Times Square, Four gold-accented alcove statues of 1920’s women entertainers: Rosa Ponselle, Marilyn Miller, Mary Pickford, and Ethel Barrymore now adorn the growing Miller shoe store chain.

I Felt I Was in Heaven Standing Ovation for Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra at Houston and Dallas, Texas

After tremendous success in Washington, Boston, and New York, the Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra’s two-day drive to Texas was rewarded with long standing ovations in Houston and Dallas.

Best 5 New Rhythm and Blues Music of 2013

Five most memorable songs that distinguish the change in the genre of R&B in 2013: **”Blurred Lines” *,”Hurt Your”, “Simplify*”, “Guns & synth”, “The Apple”.

What Could the Radio City Christmas Spectacular Do for Today’s Opera?

Fred Plotkin, contributor to 105.9 FM WQXR is a writer, consultant, speaker, and a compelling teacher. He is one of America’s lead experts on opera and he shares some of his splendid and thought-revealing experiences watching Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular last December 9. He came with friend ‘Kathy’, an exemplary board member of […]

How do theatres foster engagement with the journalists

How do theatres foster engagement with the journalists who cover the field: Locking Theatres and Journalists in a Room Together: Here is a great commentary by Howard Sherman. It all began when Mr. Sherman happened to notice the prevailing conversations or exchange of commentaries by journalists on Twitter. (He follows a group of respectable TV […]

Explore The Origins Of That Distinctive “Inner Voice” All Women Possess – Artist Anastasia Alexandrin, Ahmedabad, India

Anastasia Alexandrin, female identity artist, is exploring bold new perspectives. Through the Looking Glass, an article by Marc Londo takes a deeper look: Almost 8,000 miles between Philadelphia and Ahmedabad, India, it is a great distance that covers at least a third of the Earth’s surface at the equator, not to mention the barrier between […]

Is there a double standard for “woman conductors”?

Is there a double standard for “woman conductors? The answer, as conductor Xian Zhang can personally attest to, is yes. Xian Zhang is a musical director for one of Italy’s leading orchestras. She recently marked her debut performance as conductor of Le nozze di figaro by the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco. Not only […]

Top 10 Classical Tracks for the Beach

Top ten classical tracks for the beach : Rainbow in Curved, Zerbinetta’s Aria, Sextet No. 1, Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major , Mein Herr Marquis , /Rainbow in Curved Air/